On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:16 +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> in a recent discussion in tech-pkg@ (don't remember very well which one
> it is), it was suggested that comparing the generated PLIST to the files
> that were really installed by the package could be a good idea.
> 
> Here is a patch that does this.  For completeness, it also checks that
> no files are deleted (something that must never happen, AFAICT).
> 
> I've made it print the list of "unknown" files instead of redirecting
> them to a file so that this becomes useful in bulk builds.
> 
> This is enabled iff PKG_DEVELOPER is set and CHECK_FILES is YES.

BTW, I've just extended this to also verify that neither PKG_SYSCONFBASE
nor VARBASE are touched _directly_ by packages (i.e., without using
bsd.pkg.install.mk).  This will help in getting cleaner binary packages.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
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