On 27/06/14 02:52, Andrew Gregory wrote:
If a directory has been replaced by a symlink, -Qk currently stats the symlink target rather than the symlink itself and doesn't check that the actual file type matches the package file list. This will make it difficult to discover errors once 4.2 is released and replacing directories with symlinks is no longer supported.
I like the bug fixing part (lstat directory replaced by symlink), but I am not convinced about the file type checking for directories only being added to -Qk. We should just handle this with -Qkk. So I am "happy" with patches 2-4 in this series (without a detailed review), but think we should skip 1 and 5. I realise that not all Arch packages have MTREE files. I am going to start a rebuild to get this done. Would you be fine keeping -Qk to just file existence checking if that was done? A