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

[George Shapovalov <george@gentoo.org>]

On Friday 08 August 2003 08:21, 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.

I would like to second that. Even as a developer I like to do two passes - 
first is done with lintool, while I tweak an ebuild in my "live" tree (and I 
do have them separate, - gives me quite a bit of flexibility in tweaking 
without a risk of inadvertedly committing some local changes to the global 
tree) and then using repoman to finalize all "distributed" stuff, like 
digests, etc. in the cvs tree. Nothing beats lintool (so far and if you know 
your way around it) for the first checks that involve the ebuild itself..

George



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