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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 04:10:52PM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm working on a verification implementation of |
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> https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0074.html and ran into the following |
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> scenario that I don't know if it's right or wrong: |
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> Does anybody know or have a pointer to what the policies on files in our |
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> ebuild dirs actually is? |
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PMS, 4.3 Package directories: |
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A package directory may contain other files or directories, whose |
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purpose is not covered by this specification. |
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GLEP74 itself makes no determination of files being permitted in a given |
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directory. |
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> Now in a rsync checkout of the Prefix tree, where my own implementation |
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> also runs the fat manifest creation, this entry is not present, because |
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> I always believed only metadata.xml, ChangeLog* and *.ebuild files were |
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> allowed. |
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I'd say your separate implementation is wrong in this case, but that |
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file also should not permit at this time. |
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> Now I'm confused as to whether this is the case or not, I can't find a |
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> GLEP or anything, but repoman also is as happy as it can be on this odd |
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> file (I thought it used to complain about stray/unadded files). |
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I personally think repoman should complain about it because it's weird. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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