Stray Files on Buildbot (Sept 19)

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Sep 21 21:09:33 PDT 2011


On 2011-9-22 02:04 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Sep 21, 2011, at 10:25, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> 
>> For base, we should get a list of these known cache files together and make it a warning, much like mtree violations; store the list of "bad files" to check separately and check for their existence during post-destroot?
> 
> It's probably not the job of MacPorts base to know about the cache or database files other random software might create. It seems like it would be a lot of work to create an accurate list and keep it updated.

That said, you're welcome to add some of these kinds of files to the
post-destroot checks in the GSoC branch. One that crops up a fair bit is
perllocal.pod.

- Josh


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