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

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

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

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>
To: Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/38206: pkglint: check for INSTALLATIONS_DIRS or AUTO_MKDIRS 
presense is needed
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:51:18 +0200

  >> 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?
 
 if META_PACKAGE=yes is found in Makefile
    return
 elsif AUTO_MKDIRS=yes is found in Makefile
    return
 elsif INSTALLATION_DIRS is found in Makefile
    return
 else
    generate_warning
 endif
 
 Packages that do not set META_PACKAGE and don't install any files/dirs
 can easily be fixed.
 
 > Packages are supposed to create their directories without any of the
 > above set, and most packages do.
 ???
 
 -- 
 Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.