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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] About adding a repoman check to test for missing files in FILESDIR
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:06:41
Message-Id: 50731C24.30407@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] About adding a repoman check to test for missing files in FILESDIR by Pacho Ramos
1 On 10/08/2012 11:26 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > Hello
3 >
4 > Sometime ago this was already discussed but, if I don't misremember, it
5 > was hard to implement a check for repoman to prevent us from forgetting
6 > to commit new patches. Maybe the check could simply check if all
7 > "${FILESDIR}" files are present? The idea is that it could simply check
8 > of that files existence, if they are not present, show a warn (not a
9 > "hard" warn as it could be a false positive I guess). Regarding that
10 > file not being added to cvs tree, it doesn't show so much problems as
11 > that error is already shown at commit time (file present but not added
12 > to cvs)
13
14 Given the expressiveness of the bash language, it's really a non-trivial
15 thing to check without actually executing bash. See discussion here:
16
17 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431196
18 --
19 Thanks,
20 Zac

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