www/nginx pkg-plist + pkgng (detectable?)

[Michael Gmelin]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:30:05 +0000
Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 30/03/2013 02:40, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > pkg-plist contains:
> > 
> > %%WWWDATA%%@exec mkdir -p -m 755 www/nginx-dist
> > %%WWWDATA%%@exec if [ ! -d %D/www/nginx/ ] ; then ln -fs
> > %D/www/nginx-dist %D/www/nginx; fi
> > %%WWWDATA%%www/nginx-dist/EXAMPLE_DIRECTORY-DONT_ADD_OR_TOUCH_ANYTHING
> > %%WWWDATA%%www/nginx-dist/index.html
> > %%WWWDATA%%www/nginx-dist/50x.html
> > %%WWWDATA%%@exec chmod a-w www/nginx-dist
> > %%WWWDATA%%@unexec if [ -L %D/www/nginx ]; then rm -f %D/www/nginx;
> > fi %%WWWDATA%%@dirrmtry www/nginx-dist
> > 
> > cd /usr/ports/www/nginx
> > make install clean
> > 
> > # pkg info -R nginx | grep www/nginx-dist
> > 
> >   /usr/local/www/nginx-dist/50x.html:
> > 3c264d74770fd706d59c68d90ca1eb893ac379a666ff136f9acc66ca01daec02 /usr/local/www/nginx-dist/EXAMPLE_DIRECTORY-DONT_ADD_OR_TOUCH_ANYTHING:
> > 01ba4719c80b6fe911b091a7c05124b64eeece964e09c058ef8f9805daca546b /usr/local/www/nginx-dist/index.html:
> > 38ffd4972ae513a0c79a8be4573403edcd709f0f572105362b08ff50cf6de521 /usr/local/www/nginx-dist/:
> > y mkdir -p -m 755 www/nginx-dist
> >     if [ ! -d /usr/local/www/nginx/ ] ; then ln
> > -fs /usr/local/www/nginx-dist /usr/local/www/nginx; fi chmod a-w
> > www/nginx-dist
> > 
> > This means in practice, once you create a binary package (pseudo
> > code): pkg create nginx
> > pkg repo .
> > ...
> > pkg install nginx
> > 
> > You'll be left with a www/nginx-dist relative to wherever you've
> > been in the file. I assume that pkg-plist should use %D/www/nginx
> > instead of www/nginx in mkdir and chmod. So it's probably a bug in
> > the port itself. Is this something that pkgng could potentially
> > catch in future?
> 
> Leftovers when a package is removed?  That's definitely a bug, and at
> the moment, such things will be picked up by package building software
> like poudriere or tinderbox.  Testing on redports would flag up this
> problem, and if a commit to a port introduces such behaviour the
> maintainer should be getting emails from QAT and maybe pointyhat.

Nope, it's leftovers when the package gets installed. I will elaborate
that in my answer to Bryan later.


-- 
Michael Gmelin