How to see just mtree violations?

[Weissmann Markus]

On 29.08.2007, at 15:30, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2007-08-27 23:39:04 -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>> If I'm reading you correctly, you're proposing a Portfile only be  
>> accepted
>> as clean if it specifically states it doesn't violate the mtree?  
>> If so,
>> such functionality would require us going through every single one  
>> of our
>> Portfiles and adapting them accordingly... which is needless to say a
>> daunting task.
>
> Their maintainers could do that (if the warning isn't sufficient for
> them).
>

Portfiles that conform to our standards should be the norm, so only  
violators should have to indicate their non-standard behavior.
Otherwise this would be like having to mark all transports that do  
NOT carry nuclear waste; every waste-bin would needs to carry a "no- 
biohazard" sign...


>> To increase mtree violations visibility, at least for the time
>> being, I propose promoting them to verbose output.
>
> mtree violations aren't much visible if they aren't fatal.
>

Well, I actually wanted to do this initially, leading to many angry  
people who were caught off-guard with non-functional ports.
The current state is that a violation is displayed via 'ui_msg', so  
everyone will see it. We can switch this behavior to a fatal one in  
one of our next releases, giving people a bit of time to realize  
those warnings and perhaps even fix them...


Regards,

-Markus

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