Re: Changing default of CHECK_FILES to YES

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2017-10-02 at 09:17 BST, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> Currently, CHECK_FILES defaults to no except if PKG_DEVELOPER is set.
> This checks if the installed files and the PLIST match both ways, i.e.
> if extra files are installed that are not listed in the PLIST.
> 
> I'd like to change this default to yes to make binary packages more
> consistent for everyone.

Yes please (we were talking about this on IRC the other day), but I
don't want this to become an excuse for developers to not set
PKG_DEVELOPER=yes, it is still absolutely required that changes pass
all default PKG_DEVELOPER checks before they are committed.

Thanks,

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Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com