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

[Anthony de Boer <gentoo-dev@lists.leftmind.net>]

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.

[0] repoman(1) says:
  repoman is meant for Gentoo developers only due to the fact it does not
  work on a per-ebuild basis.  It checks the quality of CVS repositories.
  If you want some utility to check out the quality  of  ebuilds,  emerge
  dev-util/lintool.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml repeatedly says
``Be warned - lintool is very broken. Use repoman instead.''

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Anthony de Boer

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