Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata/install-qa-check.d: make the FHS paths warning easier to read

["Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" <contact@hacktivis.me>]

[2024-03-28 23:54:35-0400] Eli Schwartz:
> * QA Notice: The ebuild is installing to one or more unexpected paths:
> *
> *   /var/tmp/portage/sys-cluster/legion-9999/image/usr/bin/legion_prof_files
> *   /var/tmp/portage/sys-cluster/legion-9999/image/usr/bin/serializer_examples
> *
> * Please fix the ebuild to use correct FHS/Gentoo policy paths.
>
>This message is hard to understand. Is it saying that the resulting
>package contains files prefixed with ${D} which would be immensely
>broken? Is it saying that these paths are *directories* and the FHS does
>not approve of directories in /usr/bin/*/?
>
>In fact, it's the latter. Fix this in two ways:
>
>- clarify that it's an unexpected directory, not just some kind of path

I guess it would also make sense to have a trailing slash as extra
indication of it being a directory like `ls -F` does.

>- strip ${D} so that people can better visualize what sort of path gets
>  installed. This has the downside of not being able to copy/paste the
>  path in order to inspect the image directory, but I think this is a
>  very small downside. Usually by the time you see this message, portage
>  has cleaned up. And if it hasn't, you can still copy/paste that from:
>
>  Completed installing sys-cluster/legion-9999 into /var/tmp/portage/sys-cluster/legion-9999/image

Could maybe be confusable with installers not supporting DESTDIR though
(although the sandbox messages look *very* different).