> Allan McRae wrote : > > > Eric Bélanger wrote: > > 2009/3/30 Thomas Bächler <[email protected]>: > > > >>> 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 ... _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
