Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk/install
To: Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 02/14/2005 12:03:43
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Johnny Lam wrote:
> > (This test appears to work around a case where two files were exactly the
> > same by inode, and have the script *not* delete the file in that case.
> > I'm not exactly sure why that is desirable at all.)
>
> This is to catch errors in adding files from the PLIST to the list of files
> managed by the +INSTALL/+DEINSTALL scripts.
No, the code as written would have papered over such errors rather than
properly causing error messages (by preventing +FILES from removing the
file, and thus preventing the actually correct "maybe the packing list is
correct?" error).
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>