Re: OWN_DIRS prunes /var/tmp (PR 35340)

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 07:29:22PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 11:27:33PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > > On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 10:55:56PM +0000, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 > >  > I can replicate this with a simple test package.
 > > 
 > > The problem is not that the wrong things are listed at the end of
 > > +DIRS; the problem is that +DIRS uses rmdir -p to remove dirs, so that
 > > any empty ancestor directories are pruned regardless of whether pkgsrc
 > > owns them or not.
 > > 
 > > This could be changed; however, because +DIRS also uses mkdir -p, this
 > > may cause intermediate dirs created by pkgsrc to get left around.
 > > 
 > > I note that +DIRS sets MKDIR to mkdir -p, and then uses ${MKDIR} -p in
 > > places, suggesting that this may not have been originally intended.
 > > 
 > > It seems to me that the right fix is to not use either rmdir -p or
 > > mkdir -p, and to fix packages that don't explicitly create ancestor
 > > directories.
 > 
 > I really disagree on this. It adds a lot of complexity for little to no
 > gain. Using OWN_DIRS or co to create directories under /var/tmp just
 > seems to be wrong and requiring intermediate directories to be created
 > by hand makes it harder to set e.g. a config directory to something
 > which doesn't exist yet.

What makes you think /var/tmp is the only case where removing an empty
ancestor directory the package didn't create is a problem?

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost