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

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

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

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/38206: pkglint: check for INSTALLATIONS_DIRS or
        AUTO_MKDIRS presense is needed
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 17:21:21 +0100

 On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:15:03PM +0000, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
 >  It whould be nice if pkglint will show warning if neither
 >  INSTALLATION_DIRS nor AUTO_MKDIRS is set or if INSTALLATION_DIRS
 >  is set but not all dirs found in PLIST iare present.
 
 It can't do that. It is a static analyer and it has no way to know what
 the installation rules in the tarball do or not do.
 
 Joerg