Re: pkg/38206: pkglint: check for INSTALLATIONS_DIRS or AUTO_MKDIRS presense is needed

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/38206; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: cheusov%tut.by@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/38206: pkglint: check for INSTALLATIONS_DIRS or AUTO_MKDIRS
 presense is needed
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:04:46 +0100

 On Sun,  9 Mar 2008 13:50:00 +0000 (UTC)
 cheusov%tut.by@localhost wrote:
 
 > >Number:         38206
 > >Category:       pkg
 > >Synopsis:       pkglint: check for INSTALLATIONS_DIRS or AUTO_MKDIRS 
 > >presense
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    pkg-manager
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          change-request
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 09 13:50:00 +0000 2008
 > >Originator:     cheusov%tut.by@localhost
 > >Release:        NetBSD 4.0_STABLE
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > System: NetBSD chen.chizhovka.net 4.0_STABLE NetBSD 4.0_STABLE (GENERIC) #2: 
 > Tue Dec 25 17:42:38 EET 2007 
 > cheusov%chen.chizhovka.net@localhost:/srv/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC 
 > i386
 > Architecture: i386
 > Machine: i386
 > >Description:
 > Lots of packages have one common problem - they didn't not set
 > INSTALLATION_DIRS and AUTO_MKDIRS valiable properly.
 > 
 > This bug becomes critical when DESTDIR building.
 > 
 > It whould be great if pkglint will check this
 > unless these directories will ALWAYS be created automatically
 > without setting extra variables.
 
 Exactly what you want pkglint to check? Packages are supposed to create
 their directories without any of the above set, and most packages do.