Re: [gentoo-dev] about non-ebuild files in the tree (and verification thereof)

[Michał Górny]

W dniu śro, 28.02.2018 o godzinie 16∶10 +0100, użytkownik Fabian Groffen
napisał:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a verification implementation of
> https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0074.html and ran into the following
> scenario that I don't know if it's right or wrong:
>
> Consider net-misc/srf-ip-conn-srv
> % ls
> files  Manifest  metadata.xml  srf-ip-conn-srv-9999.ebuild
> srf-ip-conn-srv.pid
> % cat Manifest
> DIST jsmn-35086597a72d.tar.gz 11056 <snip>
> DIST srf-ip-conn-140c9b8a8619.tar.gz 112882 <snip>
>
> Notice that there is a .pid file in the ebuild dir, checked in git,
> which even contains what appears to be a pid.  It isn't used from the
> ebuild as far as I can tell.  Apart from being odd, this is actually
> irrelevant.
>
> In an rsync checkout of the gentoo-x86 tree, I see in the Manifest for
> this package a DATA entry for the .pid-file.  Hence, verification with
> both gemato as well as my own implementation succeed because the
> .pid-file is acknowledged.
>
> Now in a rsync checkout of the Prefix tree, where my own implementation
> also runs the fat manifest creation, this entry is not present, because
> I always believed only metadata.xml, ChangeLog* and *.ebuild files were
> allowed.
>
> Now I'm confused as to whether this is the case or not, I can't find a
> GLEP or anything, but repoman also is as happy as it can be on this odd
> file (I thought it used to complain about stray/unadded files).
>
> Does anybody know or have a pointer to what the policies on files in our
> ebuild dirs actually is?
>

I'm going to have the usual answer here: it was not rejected because
nobody predicted such a thing could happen. Since ebuilds do not have
a clear way of accessing this file, there is no clear reason why anyone
would try to add such a file.

Plus, given it's a special location (again, not accessible directly to
ebuilds) there's the argument of forward compatibility others mentioned.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny