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Don Seiler wrote: |
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> Can repoman not be updated to catch what only lintool catches now, so |
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> that we can have our all-in-one kwik-e-tool? |
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The implication I see in the documentation is that repoman is for Gentoo |
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developers only[0], and implies you need CVS access to the Gentoo tree, |
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while one shouldn't bother with lintool at all[1]. As a non-dev wanting |
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to submit the occasional ebuild, I'd like a tool I can use to make sure |
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I don't miss anything obvious that a CVS committer would see when he/she |
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runs repoman against my ebuild. |
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Hmmm, now I'm wondering what'd happen if I put my ebuilds in a local CVS |
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repository; would repoman know it wasn't the "real" repository? If that's |
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the case, the manpage should probably give a pointer about doing that, |
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and not start off by scaring away non-devs. |
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[0] repoman(1) says: |
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repoman is meant for Gentoo developers only due to the fact it does not |
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work on a per-ebuild basis. It checks the quality of CVS repositories. |
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If you want some utility to check out the quality of ebuilds, emerge |
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dev-util/lintool. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml repeatedly says |
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``Be warned - lintool is very broken. Use repoman instead.'' |
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Anthony de Boer |
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