[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/5] add test for file type check with -Qk

[Allan McRae]

On 27/06/14 02:52, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> If a directory has been replaced by a symlink, -Qk currently stats the
> symlink target rather than the symlink itself and doesn't check that the
> actual file type matches the package file list.  This will make it
> difficult to discover errors once 4.2 is released and replacing
> directories with symlinks is no longer supported.

I like the bug fixing part (lstat directory replaced by symlink), but I
am not convinced about the file type checking for directories only being
added to -Qk.  We should just handle this with -Qkk.

So I am "happy" with patches 2-4 in this series (without a detailed
review), but think we should skip 1 and 5.

I realise that not all Arch packages have MTREE files.  I am going to
start a rebuild to get this done.  Would you be fine keeping -Qk to just
file existence checking if that was done?

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