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

[changaco]

Dan McGee wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:21 AM, changaco <changaco at laposte.net> wrote:
> >
> >> 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 ...
> 
> The package is damaged. The better option is NOT to ignore it and fix
> the broken package, not try to hack a solution into pacman.
> 
> If *anything* on the system deletes a file a package knows about, it
> is a problem.
> 
> -Dan
> _______________________________________________
> pacman-dev mailing list
> pacman-dev at archlinux.org
> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
> 

I get your point but how do we fix the package ? We make empty files ?