makepkg: warn about dotfiles in package root

libalpm reserves paths starting with '.' for its own use and will not
extract any other than those it recognizes.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/libmakepkg/lint_package/dotfiles.sh.in b/scripts/libmakepkg/lint_package/dotfiles.sh.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9842028c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/libmakepkg/lint_package/dotfiles.sh.in
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#   dotfiles.sh - check for dotfiles in the package root
+#
+#   Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Pacman Development Team <pacman-dev@archlinux.org>
+#
+#   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+#   (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#   GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+[[ -n "$LIBMAKEPKG_LINT_PACKAGE_DOTFILES_SH" ]] && return
+LIBMAKEPKG_LINT_PACKAGE_DOTFILES_SH=1
+
+LIBRARY=${LIBRARY:-'@libmakepkgdir@'}
+
+source "$LIBRARY/util/message.sh"
+
+lint_package_functions+=('check_dotfiles')
+
+check_dotfiles() {
+	local ret=0
+	for f in "$pkgdir"/.*; do
+		[[ ${f##*/} == . || ${f##*/} == .. ]] && continue
+		error "$(gettext "Dotfile found in package root '%s'")" "$f"
+		ret=1
+	done
+	return $ret
+}