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