[aur-general] AUR airvpn-portable changes files in userfolders, DO NOT INSTALL

[Bartłomiej Piotrowski]

On 2016-03-30 21:44, respiranto wrote:
> On 2016-03-30 20:17, Frederik “Freso” S. Olesen wrote:
>> Den 30-03-2016 kl. 20:07 skrev respiranto:
>>> The .install file does some things which could in theory delete user
>>> data (e.g. `ln -sf'). however it does so in a directory that belongs to
>>> the package, which is expected behaviour in .install files.
>>
>> If it's in $HOME it doesn't belong to the package.
>>
> 
> I just created a test package.
> 
> $ pacman -Qo $HOME/example
> /home/respiranto/example is owned by test 0.1-1
> 
> 
> reference PKGBUILD:
> -------------------
> 
> pkgname=test
> pkgver=0.1
> pkgrel=1
> arch=('any')
> 
> package() {
>   mkdir -p "$pkgdir$HOME"
>   echo "123" > "$pkgdir$HOME/example"
> }
> 

You took it too literally. No package should modify files in $HOME, no
matter if it's written down guideline or not…

I just deleted both "portable" packages.

Bartłomiej

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