HEADS UP: pkg-plist strict enforcement starting

[Lupe Christoph]

On Wednesday, 2005-01-12 at 13:08:36 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> For the past month I've been sending warnings to maintainers of ports
> that have broken pkg-plists (i.e. leave behind files after
> deinstallation).  Now that we've passed the 4.11-RELEASE freeze, it's
> a good time to take this to the next level and begin phasing in strict
> enforcement of pkg-plist correctness.

> What this means is that the port build will now fail on the package
> cluster if certain kinds of files are left behind (to avoid false
> positives I will be phasing in matching of the 'extra file list' with
> a set of regexps that will be added to over time).  Thus, your package
> will no longer appear on the ftp site, will be marked
> BROKEN="Incomplete pkg-plist" and will eventually be scheduled for
> removal should the problem continue to be ignored by the maintainer.

> If you are the maintainer of an affected port, you will have already
> received mail from me detailing the missing files.  If you've already
> submitted a PR containing a fix, you don't have anything further to
> worry about (although you might like to send a reminder to ports@ if
> you think it's been overlooked).  If you haven't yet addressed the
> problems, please do so ASAP.

OK, back to a thread I started a while ago.

How do you treat an upgrade? Both Munin ports need to conserve state.
And they can only do that by leaving symlinks and files behind.

Please refer to the thread starting at
  http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-ports/2004-December/018592.html

Kris, I have not received a mail from you about missing files. This may
have been because the munin-node port was broken by the new environment
variable ARCH. And munin-main only leaves files behing if a cron run
happens while it is installed. Can you please run them again? Leaving
munin-main installed for say ten minutes?

BTW:
The ports system has no way to marking files as configuration files.
Debian apt-get has a "--purge" option to remove even those. And the
ports system has AFAIK no way to dynamically enter a file in the
database like Solaris' installf. You have to handle all this in a
deinstall script.

Lupe Christoph
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