[pacman-dev] [PATCH] New feature: files verification

[Allan McRae]

Eric Bélanger wrote:
> 2009/3/30 Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>:
>   
>> changaco schrieb:
>>     
>>>> What has files in /tmp?
>>>>         
>>> Well they are temporary files so you can't consider that the package is
>>> damaged if they are not here.
>>> I added this because of some fonts package which has files in /tmp.
>>>       
>> If a package has files in /tmp, it should be reported here, as it is
>> definitely a bug in the package! It is not pacman's responsibility to fix
>> this, but the packager's.
>>
>>     
>
> I guess he's talking about ttf-ms-fonts. The files that initially get
> installed in /tmp are extracted/installed properly afterwards by the
> .install script.  I'm not sure why this is done but it might be a
> license restriction.

Correct.  We can only distribute the un-extracted files.

Allan