Re: [gentoo-dev] Some 'proper coding' notes for ebuilds

[Marius Mauch]

On 08/08/03  Anthony de Boer wrote:

> Don Seiler wrote:
> > Can repoman not be updated to catch what only lintool catches now,
> > so that we can have our all-in-one kwik-e-tool?
>
> The implication I see in the documentation is that repoman is for
> Gentoo developers only[0], and implies you need CVS access to the
> Gentoo tree, while one shouldn't bother with lintool at all[1].  As a
> non-dev wanting to submit the occasional ebuild, I'd like a tool I can
> use to make sure I don't miss anything obvious that a CVS committer
> would see when he/she runs repoman against my ebuild.
>
> Hmmm, now I'm wondering what'd happen if I put my ebuilds in a local
> CVS repository; would repoman know it wasn't the "real" repository?
> If that's the case, the manpage should probably give a pointer about
> doing that, and not start off by scaring away non-devs.

Have a look at 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=59389 , I posted a repoman
version there that works on a local portage tree (the main tree or your
overlay).

Marius

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