On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:33:12PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On 7/12/05, Jason Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 06:56:26PM +0100, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote:
> > > I take it this is the guidelines I am trying to develop?  The AUR freaks 
> > > out if your try and
> > > upload a PKGBUILD without source or md5sum fields - but it will let you 
> > > put blank ones :)
> > 
> > I think that's probably something that needs to be fixed in the AUR then.
> > The parsing script is definitely sub-par.
> 
> Agreed, but what-cha gonna do? Implement a whole subset of bash in php
> to parse all variables? why not run it through bash once? (source
> PKGBUILD && echo $source)

What if the PKGBUILD contained a rm -r / (or something the nobody user did
own) outside of the build() function?  source is just going to execute it.

> as for the empty source/md5sums thing - sounds simple enough... I'm
> going to assume there's an actual check for this and it's not just a
> side effect.

I'm pretty sure it is a check.

> PS - why doesn't the AUR use namcap?

Because.  No reason that I'm aware of.

Jason

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