Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Safety

[Jeremy Erwin]

On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 10:48  PM, Ashley Yakeley wrote:

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

2. After the dpkg is built, fink should check it to make sure that all
the files are within %p (or within other directories somehow explicitly
mentioned in the .info file).

I would rather hope that in future the kind of error that happened here
will somehow get detected by human eyes before it can do much
destruction. I would regret it if my oversight were the reason for the
introduction of some heavy bureaucracy into fink that would be useful
only in extremely exceptional cases.

I really see this as a simple sanity check on the dpkg. There are very
few packages that install outside of %p and no other package info files
need be affected.

jeremy@callisto:/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11- system]$ fink validate xfree86-base_4.2.1.1-4_darwin-powerpc.deb
Validating .deb file xfree86-base_4.2.1.1-4_darwin-powerpc.deb...
Warning: File "/usr/" installed outside of /sw
Warning: File "/usr/X11R6/" installed outside of /sw
Warning: File "/usr/X11R6/bin/" installed outside of /sw
...
etc.

I think that should suffice for validation.

Jeremy



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