Am Donnerstag, den 25.02.2010, 19:06 +0100 schrieb Sebastian Pipping:
> I agree that additional repoman checks can help to improve quality in
> Gentoo...
> 
> 
> It seems that currently neither metagen nor repoman check what I put in
> for herd (i.e. if such a herd exists or not).
> 
> Does anyone feel like getting his hands on that or like teaming up on it?

Since the value for <herd> is a distinct set of values it could be
easily done using a xsd or relax-ng schema plus XIncludes.
See http://dev.gentoo.org/~dev-zero/metadata/ for my earlier
experiments.


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