Stray Files on Buildbot (Sept 19)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 21, 2011, at 23:09, Joshua Root wrote:

> 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.


For that one, one might consider modifying the perl5 portgroup's post-destroot to ensure that file doesn't get installed.