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

[changaco]

> Allan McRae wrote :
> 
> > Eric Bélanger wrote:
> > 2009/3/30 Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>:
> >   
> >>> changaco wrote:
> >>>>   
> >>>> 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

Ok pacman shouldn't have to worry about /tmp but as we cannot distribute the extracted files we have to find a solution, we can't just ignore the fact that this option would show ttf-ms-fonts as damaged.
As "normal" packages shouldn't put files in /tmp I think it is a good choice to ignore it.
Alternatively we could just display a message when the missing files are in /tmp and let the user choose what to do.
Or if someone has a better idea: share it ...