[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs clamav, libclam6, libclam6_devel

[Peter FELECAN]

Jake Goerzen <jgoerzen at opencsw.org> writes:

> On 12/24/10 03:50, Peter FELECAN wrote:
>> Philip Brown<phil at bolthole.com>  writes:
>>
>>    
>>> On 12/23/10, Peter FELECAN<pfelecan at opencsw.org>  wrote:
>>>      
>>>> Philip Brown<phil at bolthole.com>  writes:
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>> seems pretty non-ambiguous to me.
>>>>> "run time only". == "only data generated at run time".
>>>>>          
>>>> This mean that if the data is not generated at run-time it cannot be put
>>>> there?
>>>>
>>>> What about the files distributed by SUNWapch2r? They are in /var/apache2
>>>> and there are files and directories not generated at run-time. Isn't it?
>>>> Is that in contradiction with your interpretation?
>>>>        
>>> Let me point out that you are referencing a Sun package, and comparing
>>> it to CSW packages.
>>> Sun does not always do things sanely.
>>> For example, shipping the *config* files for smf, under /var.
>>> idiotic.
>>>      
>> Ah, the eternal ending argument: Sun does "idiotic" things...
>>
>>    
>>> SUNWapch2r seems to be similarly stupid.
>>>
>>> btw: directories under /var/opt are no problem.
>>>      
>> If you take 30s you can see that is not only directories but also files.
>>
>>    
>>>> The maintainer explained very clearly why it must be in the place that
>>>> the files are but maybe this is a case of "whatever the maintainer feels
>>>> like"? Maybe disrupting a clamav installation is of the "best" quality
>>>> for the corporate world?
>>>>        
>>> Its not a matter of "no you cant configure the program to *use* /var/opt".
>>> It's merely a matter of not "shipping them *in* /var/opt".
>>> ie, "dont put files in /var/opt as part of your 'prototype' file".
>>> There isnt a problem with a postinstall script copying files into
>>> /var/opt/csw, from elsewhere, as I already explicitly said on this
>>> thread.
>>>
>>> It's fairly trivial for "the maintainer" to toss together a
>>> postinstall script to copy them from somewhere else. Should take all
>>> of 10 minutes.
>>>      
>> This is what I dislike the most: "fairly trivial", "should take 10
>> minutes", this way you decide what the given maintainer should do with
>> his time.
>>
>>    
>
> I didn't realize this discussion was going on in pkgsubmissions since
> I wasn't subscribed (but I am now).  Here is a idea using the gar
> recipe to work this out:
> [...]
> This way when gmake package is ran the files will be prototype'ed in
> /opt/csw/share/doc/clamav.  Then, during pkgadd if the files don't
> exist the postinstall script will copy them there and clamd can start
> up.
>

Thank you Jake. However, the discussion was about arbitrariness of
rules/policies more than feasibility.

-- 
Peter