[csw-maintainers] GAR: New checkpkg module: pkgmap / pkginfo class action integrity

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Maciej,
>
> Am 28.01.2010 um 15:28 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
>>
>> I've recently bumped into a problem in which there's a class that's
>> assigned to files in pkgmap, but not present in pkginfo CLASSES
>> variable.  The result is that the files marked with the orphaned
>> class, even though they are in the root/ directory of the package,
>> don't get installed.
>>
>> I wrote a checkpkg module to test for this issue, it has been
>> submitted to the repository. An example output:
>>
>> ERROR: One or more errors have been found by class action scripts /
>> prototype integrity.
>> PackageError("Class 'bar' is only in pkginfo",)
>> PackageError("Class 'foo' is only in pkginfo",)
>> PackageError("Class 'baz' is only in pkginfo",)
>> PackageError("Class 'none' is only in pkgmap",)
>> PackageError("pkginfo_classes: set(['baz', 'foo', 'bar',
>> 'cswtexinfo']), pkgmap classes: set(['none', 'cswtexinfo'])",)
>>
>> If you want to use the new module, you need to update your local copy
>> of GAR code.
>
> Most of the times you are right. However, there is the case where only
> a subset of files gets installed by selecting only specific classes.
> The list of classes can be calculated during checkinstall

Pardon my ignorance, at what stage is checkinstall being run?

> depending
> on the system where the package is installed. I don't know if there
> are any package that make use of this, but everyone please keep an
> open eye on this!

I hope that if this issue ever crops up, I'll have the overrides
mechanism in place.