On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:29:06 +0100 Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:04 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > > Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote: > > > Anyway, as I'm developing this program, I'm discovering a lot of minor > > > bugs in the Gentoo system along the way. At the moment I'm counting 546 > > > bugs out of which some are probably false postives, but a large number > > > are actual bugs. The number is also expected to change as I'm currently > > > supressing a lot of obvious bugs. > > > > > > > Please tell us what kinds of bugs we are talking about so we can tell > > you if they are bugs in your program or ebuilds. > > Oh sorry about that, I should have given an example > > "net-misc/dhcpcd-3.0.10" installs /usr/share/man/man8/dhcpcd.8.bz2 with > execute permissions grabted for user group and others. > > I should also mention that most of these bugs are bugs that would more > apropriately be fixed upstream, allthough this particular package is > maintained by a gentoo-developer. > > The rest of the bugs are of the same sort. My program uses the following > assumptions: > > A file that needs to be looked at fulfills the following demands. > 1. Is a gentoo installed file, in particular is found > within /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS > 2. Is executable > 3. Is not a link, it is assumed that a link goes to another file within > the same packet. > 4. Is not a directory > > Anything that fullfills those demands and is not handled within the > program is a possible bug. So all executable files in a package are bugs? I hope I'm missing something here ... Maybe you could just post your script, code is sometimes better than humans for explaining algorithms. Marius -- [email protected] mailing list
