Subject: pkg/37284: pkglint could check for an even # of args to CONF_FILES
To: None <pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <he@uninett.no>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 11/05/2007 11:00:00
>Number: 37284
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: pkglint could check for an even # of args to CONF_FILES
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 05 11:00:00 +0000 2007
>Originator: Havard Eidnes
>Release: NetBSD 3.1_STABLE
>Organization:
UNINETT AS
>Environment:
System: NetBSD smistad.uninett.no 3.1_STABLE NetBSD 3.1_STABLE (SMISTAD) #1: Wed Jan 24 17:28:31 CET 2007 he@smistad.uninett.no:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/SMISTAD i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
pkglint could benefit from checking that the CONF_FILES
setting contains an even number of entries. Failure to do so
exposes the user to the following rather obtuse error message
during install:
shift: can't shift that many
*** Error code 2
while pkglint says "looks fine." (This is on pkgsrc-2007Q3.)
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to make a package with just one entry in CONF_FILES, watch
install fail.
>Fix:
Sorry, none provided.