[gentoo-dev] Gentoo alt-projects meeting 9/26 1900 UTC

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo alt-projects meeting 9/26 1900 UTC

[Kito]

Greetings,

   On behalf of the g/fbsd and macos teams, I'd like to call a  
meeting for all members of the gentoo-alt projects (and anyone else  
who would like to attend) on Monday September 26 at 19:00 UTC.

Items on the Agenda so far:

   * Naming and categorization of alt-arch system packages

   * Merging patches in the main tree

   * Additional Repoman checks (cp -[a,d], /bin/false, etc.)

   * Project page content (tech notes, tasks data, active devs, etc)

   * Portage rewrite - alternate prefix installs(!), moving/adding  
platform dependent code to loadable modules

   * Alt-project roadmap

Flame-on.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo alt-projects meeting 9/26 1900 UTC

[Nathan L. Adams]

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Kito wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
>   On behalf of the g/fbsd and macos teams, I'd like to call a  meeting
> for all members of the gentoo-alt projects (and anyone else  who would
> like to attend) on Monday September 26 at 19:00 UTC.
> 
> Items on the Agenda so far:
> 
>   * Naming and categorization of alt-arch system packages
> 
>   * Merging patches in the main tree
> 
>   * Additional Repoman checks (cp -[a,d], /bin/false, etc.)
> 
>   * Project page content (tech notes, tasks data, active devs, etc)
> 
>   * Portage rewrite - alternate prefix installs(!), moving/adding 
> platform dependent code to loadable modules
> 
>   * Alt-project roadmap

I'm writing a tool, called esyntaxer, that finds certain common ebuild
errors and automagically corrects them if possible. Yes, I'm aware of
the overlaps with repoman, and no this isn't a duplication of work.

Anyhow, I would be very keen on any ideas you may have for checks that
can be added to esyntaxer that would make ebuilds more agreeable on
'alternate' platforms.

Any suggestions, feedback, etc are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Nathan

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo alt-projects meeting 9/26 1900 UTC

[Kito]

I guess knowing where the meeting will be held might help attendance  
a little...

#gentoo-alt it is!

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo alt-projects meeting 9/26 1900 UTC

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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On Friday 16 September 2005 01:56, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
> I'm writing a tool, called esyntaxer, that finds certain common ebuild
> errors and automagically corrects them if possible. Yes, I'm aware of
> the overlaps with repoman, and no this isn't a duplication of work.
Actually, I already have prepared a ruby script that I use to find violators 
to the syntax (like enewuser with /bin/false and cp called with extra 
options). It's on http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ruby-checker.tbz2 .
It's not complete, but it works when it comes to checking for these simple 
cases.

I don't trust automatic correction, false positives can always happen, 
currently my way to proceed with such problems is opening a big bug and 
poking maintainers to fix them :)

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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
(Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo alt-projects meeting 9/26 1900 UTC

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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On Friday 16 September 2005 01:30, Kito wrote:
> Items on the Agenda so far:
I would add that (that I forgot last night but is one of the main concerns):

    * ${ARCH} usage, keywords and variables assignments.

> Flame-on.
This was my part :P

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo alt-projects meeting 9/26 1900 UTC

[Kito]

Thanks for the feedback kids. Anyone who has any items they want  
added, speak up!

Revised agenda list:

   * Rollcall/Active members

   * Elections/Nominations for project lead?

   * Sub-project organization

   * Project page content (tech notes, tasks data, etc)

   * Alt-project roadmap

   * Portage rewrite - alternate prefix installs(!), moving/adding  
platform dependent code to loadable modules

   * ${ARCH} usage, keywords and variables assignments

   * Naming and categorization of alt-arch system packages

   * Merging patches in the main tree

   * Additional Repoman checks (cp -[a,d], /bin/false, etc.)

   * Open Floor


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo alt-projects meeting 9/26 1900 UTC

[Nathan L. Adams]

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Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> I don't trust automatic correction, false positives can always happen, 
> currently my way to proceed with such problems is opening a big bug and 
> poking maintainers to fix them :)
>

The esyntaxer tool will warn and/OR autocorrect; user's choice. The
warnings are intended to teach (by pointing to documentation) rather
than just moaning and groaning. And while I'll agree that there are
always edge cases and autocorrection will never be 100%, I must say that
the kinds of errors I'm correcting aren't that hard. Besides, esyntaxer
isn't something your run and forget; it is *not* a replacement for peer
review by good ole' humans. :)

Nathan



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