[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ttf-ms-fonts (WAS: Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] New feature: files verification)

[Eric Bélanger]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Eric Bélanger schrieb:
>>
>> If the packaging problem is simply  the files being  installed in
>> /tmp, that can be easily fixed. Instead of installing the files in
>> /tmp, just install them somewhere else (/usr/share/ttf-ms-fonts/ ?)
>> where they won't be deleted.
>
> The problem is that files are installed at run-time and cannot be tracked by
> pacman. That is a no-go for packages!
>
>

For this, we could use touch to create  empty files in the correct
location in the package. These empty files would be replace by the
correct files on post install.  Still messy but pacman will know which
files belongs to the package.  The downside is that we don't know the
package size either on download or on install.