[Slackbuilds-users] extra files in $PKG/install

[Giancarlo Dessì]

Il 11/04/22 19:55, B. Watson ha scritto:
>
> I've been going through a lot of packages, looking for issues...
>
> How many of you have files named like these?
>
> $ ls -d /installpkg-*
> /installpkg-424f0b9b8dfa39116f400a1e28c81427/
> /installpkg-48c5f1121baf117bc8cd5cb81d4c315a/
> /installpkg-8ce33bb6875a083c1b82af332c9a1175/
> /installpkg-a6c16f0748bbc7f892dd56447a375fa6/
> /installpkg-ad84c0c457f72e604075589930b129de/
> /installpkg-c863767111eaaddfb8623271f76a6c8b/
> /installpkg-cd8a50cc9a20baff05436e5e21b3b89b/
> /installpkg-d9f3419d09ef5f9fe23a0a1a2c198b8d/
> /installpkg-e4b7c85746cc950dff947233cb978aaa/
> /installpkg-f850ef68bdfdb986ee187fd495acf84d/
>
> It turns out that SlackBuilds which put extra files in $PKG/install
> cause these 'turds' to be installed. The installpkg command creates
> these, with the contents of 'install/' in the package (meaning they
> contain slack-desc and doinst.sh, if it exists), but it doesn't
> remove them if they contain extra files, because it deletes/moves
> the slack-desck and doinst.sh, then uses rmdir to delete the
> /installpkg-<hash> directory.
>
> As an added bonus, any code in doinst.sh that expects to use a file
> in /install (e.g. freeimpi tries to use /install/conffiles), will fail
> because by the time doinst.sh runs, the directory has been renamed.
>
> I can and will fix the ones I know about, but everyone, you should
> check your builds to see if they do this.

I think this could be a singular issue in your system. I have built 
hudrends of different slackbuilds but no files like these exist (I 
searched in / and in /tmp/SBo). Sometimes I check and empty the 
directory but I never found files like these.


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