Portage Install Checks

Extra post-install QA checks for Portage, with output in both human and machine-readable formats.

For humans

1. Install these checks to /usr/local/lib/install-qa-check.d or /usr/lib/install-qa-check.d
2. Enable QA logging in /etc/portage/make.conf: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error qa"
3. emerge your package
4. Check the build log and hope there's no new QA violations

For machines

QA violations are logged to "${T}"/qa.log in YAML:

- tag: share-elf
  files:
    - "/usr/share/bin/foo"
    - "/usr/share/bin/bar"

List of checks

Name	Description
illegal-files	Files that should never be installed eg. Thumbs.db, OS X fork files etc.
share-elf	Identifies ELF files in /usr/share

Credits

Many checks have been inspired by or outright copied from a variety of sources, including, but not limited to:

• Portage
• flameeyes' tinderbox
• toralf's tinderbox
• lintian