On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Ray Rashif <schiv@archlinux.org> wrote:
In the same manner, even if a set of Python scripts is not comprised of 'binary files', they _are_ executables and should be contained in a tarball linked online.
I've been working on that one too. Best I've got so far is to check for a source array without any http or ftp links. Though that mainly hits a large number of font packages, which are already flagged as containing binaries. Checking for +x brings up false positives that look like they were packages on windows machines.
find /var/abs -name *.png | wc -l == 60
Of +4800 packages, that is 1.2%. The AUR is more than twice that rate. But while we are running the numbers to determine best practices..... grep -r '|| return 1' /var/abs/ | wc -l == 6165 -Kyle http://kmkeen.com