mtree violations should be debug info, should not be fatal errors

Weissmann Markus mww at macports.org
Sun Aug 12 13:49:41 PDT 2007


On 12 Aug 2007, at 22:36, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Weissmann Markus wrote:
>
>> we've documented the should-be state of the layout of the ports- 
>> filesystems years ago already - see porthier(7); if ports fail  
>> because of this right now, it is most likely either because our  
>> implementation is faulty or the port is buggy.
>
> Seems like "src" is missing from the porthier/mtree, this breaks  
> the "port rpm/srpm" targets and the "rpm/rpm-devel" ports. I'd  
> prefer if it could be added to the hier, rather than having to  
> make /opt/local/src/macports an exception from the rules ?
>

No problem for me - I just want to have the layout reasonable,  
documented and tested. I would like to keep a concise & small mtree  
but will not object to reasonable additions.


-Markus

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