On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:25:55 +0100 Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 19:56 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:29:06 +0100 > > Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:04 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > > > > Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote: > > > A file that needs to be looked at fulfills the following demands. > > > 1. Is a gentoo installed file, in particular is found > > > within /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS > > > 2. Is executable > > > 3. Is not a link, it is assumed that a link goes to another file within > > > the same packet. > > > 4. Is not a directory > > > > > > Anything that fullfills those demands and is not handled within the > > > program is a possible bug. > > > > So all executable files in a package are bugs? I hope I'm missing something > > here ... > > Maybe you could just post your script, code is sometimes better than humans > > for explaining algorithms. > > Well, you're missing the part about not handled and possible bug. As I > said, some of the file types are handled, and are known to be bugs, some > are unhandled and are probably bugs. Among the filetypes I handle are > gif files. I can not see any reason why gif files should be executable, > can you? Ok, so you're looking for executable files that shouldn't be executables. That's much easier to understand, all that "handling" stuff was a bit confusing to me as you never listed your goal. > About posting my script, it is not finished yet and to be frank, I'm too > embarassed by my unfinished code to want the world to see it. Well, now that we know the intention it I think it shouldn't be that difficult to implement that as a QA check in portage, just some parsing of `file` output which I think we already do for other reasons. Marius -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
