Re: [gentoo-dev] XML Schema files for metadata.xml, projects.xml and repositories.xml, for review and testing

[Michał Górny]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 19:26:15 +0100
Davide Pesavento <pesa@g.o> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 18:12:03 +0000
> > "Justin <jlec>" <jlec@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >> On 06/03/16 12:24, Davide Pesavento wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> >> >> On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 12:01:19 +0100
> >> >> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Please test and review. I'm going to reply to this mail with the list
> >> >>> of current metadata.xml validation failures (it's quite long).
> >> >>
> >> >> And here's the list:
> >> >>
> >> > ...
> >> >> /var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-qt/qtmultimedia/metadata.xml:12: element pkg: Schemas validity error : Element 'pkg': [facet 'pattern'] The value 'media-libs/gstreamer:1.0' is not accepted by the pattern '[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9+_.-]*/[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9+_-]*'.
> >> >> /var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-qt/qtmultimedia/metadata.xml:12: element pkg: Schemas validity error : Element 'pkg': 'media-libs/gstreamer:1.0' is not a valid value of the atomic type 'pkgType'.
> >> >> /var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-qt/qtmultimedia/metadata.xml:13: element pkg: Schemas validity error : Element 'pkg': [facet 'pattern'] The value 'media-libs/gstreamer:0.10' is not accepted by the pattern '[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9+_.-]*/[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9+_-]*'.
> >> >> /var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-qt/qtmultimedia/metadata.xml:13: element pkg: Schemas validity error : Element 'pkg': 'media-libs/gstreamer:0.10' is not a valid value of the atomic type 'pkgType'.
> >> >> /var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-qt/qtmultimedia/metadata.xml fails to validate
> >> >>
> >> >> /var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-qt/qtwebkit/metadata.xml:12: element pkg: Schemas validity error : Element 'pkg': [facet 'pattern'] The value 'media-libs/gstreamer:1.0' is not accepted by the pattern '[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9+_.-]*/[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9+_-]*'.
> >> >> /var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-qt/qtwebkit/metadata.xml:12: element pkg: Schemas validity error : Element 'pkg': 'media-libs/gstreamer:1.0' is not a valid value of the atomic type 'pkgType'.
> >> >> /var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-qt/qtwebkit/metadata.xml:13: element pkg: Schemas validity error : Element 'pkg': [facet 'pattern'] The value 'media-libs/gstreamer:0.10' is not accepted by the pattern '[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9+_.-]*/[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9+_-]*'.
> >> >> /var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-qt/qtwebkit/metadata.xml:13: element pkg: Schemas validity error : Element 'pkg': 'media-libs/gstreamer:0.10' is not a valid value of the atomic type 'pkgType'.
> >> >> /var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-qt/qtwebkit/metadata.xml fails to validate
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Slots are not accepted in <pkg> elements? Is that intentional? If so,
> >> > is there something else we can use?
> >> >
> >>
> >> We should definitely include SLOTs in the allowed syntax.
> >
> > Why? What's their use? In fact, does <pkg/> have any use? Because as I
> > see it, it's just some fancy feature that could turn package name into
> > link to packages.gentoo.org and nothing more...
> >
>
> Yeah that's what I thought too. If you really want you could also
> check that the referenced package really exists in the tree...
>
> So I guess we could use the following form when SLOTs are needed:
>   <pkg>media-libs/gstreamer</pkg>:1.0
> ?

Prolly.

Just to be clear, I have no clue what the original use of <pkg/> was
and what the final outcome of this will be. This thread was established
mostly in order to determine that. I'd wait for ulm to turn up and have
some suggestions ;-).

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>