On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:21 AM, changaco <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 ...
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 [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
