[csw-maintainers] checkpkg: check for empty files?

Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński maciej at opencsw.org
Tue Sep 27 21:38:28 CEST 2011


2011/9/27 Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org>:
> I _think_ this is a sane check in most cases...off the top of my head,
> I can't think of a place where I'd want to deliver an empty file.
> (Queue 8 people that can!)

We can take an empirical approach.  Implement the test, and run it
against the whole catalog.  Then examine all the cases - how many
there are, which ones seem to be false positives, and which ones seem
to be valid.  Then we can make the decision.  In the past, I usually
did it on my own, but now that more people are interested, we can
review them together.

For those interested, here's the superslow web interface showing error
tags for all the catalogs:

http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/pkgdb/error-tags/

Maciej


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