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

B. Watson urchlay at slackware.uk
Mon Apr 11 22:26:40 UTC 2022



On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, Erich Ritz via SlackBuilds-users wrote:

> It is (semi-) documented behavior of installpkg.  From /sbin/installpkg:
>
> # Tue Apr 17 17:26:44 UTC 2018
> # Quit with the funny business in /install. Note however that /install still
> # isn't a safe directory to use in a package for anything other than package
> # metadata. Other files placed there are going to be left on the system in
> # /installpkg-$(mcookie). That could be worked around, but we'll wait until
> # someone reports there is a need. The main reason to do this is that /install
> # was a collision point if more than one copy of installpkg was running at
> # once. With this change, the pkgtools are (more or less) thread-safe.

Right, I quoted the same thing in my 2nd email...

What I'm trying to do is find out which SBo build actually have this
problem. So far I know about 3 of them, I bet the're more.


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