Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:27:15 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/yabb Makefile pkg-plist ports/www/yabb/files pkg-message.in Message-ID: <20060128202715.GA33895@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420601281213i6decb15cpc594b136d06540b8@mail.gmail.com> References: <200601281659.k0SGxWdP049268@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060128193852.GA30951@xor.obsecurity.org> <cb5206420601281144g18d49bf2lf2e22081adbf0c3b@mail.gmail.com> <20060128195138.GA31594@xor.obsecurity.org> <cb5206420601281213i6decb15cpc594b136d06540b8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 11:13:14PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 1/28/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:44:29PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > > On 1/28/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 04:59:32PM +0000, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > > > > pav 2006-01-28 16:59:32 UTC
> > > > >
> > > > > FreeBSD ports repository
> > > > >
> > > > > Modified files:
> > > > > www/yabb Makefile pkg-plist
> > > > > www/yabb/files pkg-message.in
> > > > > Log:
> > > > > - Now installs into /usr/local/www instead of /usr/local/www/{d=
ata,cgi-bin}
> > > > > - Data flatfiles are now cautiously left behind whether they ha=
ve changed or not
> > > >
> > > > It's not OK for packages to leave files behind after deinstallation.
> > > > Can you please fix this?
> > > >
> > > > Kris
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > NO_PACKAGE was set in the same commit, if that helps
> >
> > It's still not OK, but now you just hid the problem from the package
> > cluster :)
> >
> > Kris
> >
> >
> >
>=20
> No, it's not about the package cluster. The plist is incomplete,
> that's the simplest/stupidest way to deal with 3 dozen important
> data files in different dirs.
>=20
> I wish there was some way to leverage the file checksums in
> the package database and tell pkg_delete (and pkg_deinstall,
> too) not to remove any modified files unless the user has very
> specifically told otherwise. AFAIK there isn't. I guess I'll have
> to do it manually (in pkg-<scripts>). I haven't done it yet, but
> I felt it was not _that_ important. Warnings are in place,
> package building is denied.
>=20
> If you can't look at it without remorse, shoot me, mark it
> broken, delete it, whatever. I still can't see what's itching so
> bad.
It's about standards that ports need to live up to - otherwise pretty
soon we wind up back in the situation where 2000 packages have packing
lists that bear little resemblence to what their ports install, and
related quality problems. Anyway, thanks for working on it.
Kris
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