[csw-maintainers] checkpkg: File collision detection available for testing

[Philip Brown]

Errr... It should be noted somewhere.. ideally in the naming of the
override mechanism itself... that such overrides, are only TEMPORARY.
file collision is a "hard stop". while you can override collisions
that may be present on the build farm; packages that collide with
other packages present in "current", will not be accepted into
"current".



On 12/8/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> File collision checking has been introduced at the package release
> level some time ago.  Some packages have been (rightfully) rejected on
> the grounds that they provided a file already existing in another
> package in the catalog.  The inconvenience in the process was that
> there was no checking against file collisions during maintainer's
> work.  Only after the package was submitted for release, and the
> release manager tried to insert the file into the database, potential
> collision problems were detected.  I've set out to tackle this problem
> and implement file collision checking at checkpkg level.
>
> The change in checkpkg was substantial, as the whole database backend
> had to be reworked to a new model.  Overall, the change involved 43
> files, with 3825 line insertions and 1979 line deletions (so far).
> The new code currently breaks compatibility with automatically managed
> cached databases, which is how checkpkg must work outside the
> buildfarm.  In the meantime, checkpkg is ready to be tested on the
> buildfarm.
>
> When running the new version of checkpkg, you may see something like:
>
> CHECKPKG_OVERRIDES_CSWlibnspr4 +=
> file-collision|/opt/csw/share/aclocal/nspr.m4|CSWlibnspr4|CSWmozilla|CSWsunbird
>
> This means, that the file /opt/csw/share/aclocal/nspr.m4, if your
> package CSWlibnspr4 was inserted into the catalog, would be owned by 3
> packages: CSWlibnspr4, CSWmozilla and CSWsunbird.
>
> If you want to check the new version, please clone my git repository.
> Here's an example usage scenario:
>
> cd ~/src
> git clone -b collisions \
> http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~maciej/opencsw.git \
> opencsw-new-checkpkg
> ln -s ~/src/opencsw-new-checkpkg/gar/v2 opencsw/pkg/<software>/trunk/gar
>
> If you get an error while running it, please drop me an e-mail with
> the full error message and a stack trace.
>
> Maciej
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