Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New tool: merge-driver-ekeyword automatically resolves git merge conflicts involving KEYWORDS=...
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:16:54
Message-Id: 73cd37156b6a9bf35338f7cafb0a9fd6e923cad8.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New tool: merge-driver-ekeyword automatically resolves git merge conflicts involving KEYWORDS=... by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 15:16 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 20:42 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
3 > >
4 > > Are you volunteering to fix all the tools to support the new format
5 > > correctly?
6 > >
7 >
8 > When you already spend all day fixing other peoples' software, this
9 > doesn't sound that scary.
10 >
11 > The PMS says that KEYWORDS is whitespace-separated. Probably only
12 > repoman/pkgcheck would require trivial changes. Anything not enforcing
13 > ::gentoo policy should (ha ha) already support the PMS format.
14
15 Thank you for your detailed research. However, you seem to have missed
16 ekeyword and nattka. And the fact that we still don't have a proper
17 bash parsing library that could reliably edit complex bash in ebuilds.
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny