On 05/20/10 05:21 AM, Tim Foster wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 16:23 -0600, Mark J. Nelson wrote: >> It seems like the IPS gate makes sense, as the functionality it provides >> is potentially useful to folks outside of ON. The feature set might or >> might not be rich enough for generic usage, as it was developed >> specifically as a protocmp replacement. >> >> I'm happy to fix it in the short term, and migrate it when that becomes >> appropriate. >> >> Do you think we've reached that point, and would the current state of >> the tool (modulo the current fix) be a reasonable first cut? > > I think fixing it short term would be ideal - I sent some mail to > pkg-discuss today about 'pkglint', a generic package linting tool that > we'd like to have.
Sounds like I should catch up on that thread. In the mean time, I can fix the bug that Brock filed in two stages--the first stage to work with either method, and the second (under a yet to be filed bug) to remove the old method after the pkg changes have propagated. > I'd hope that once pkglint was done, we'd have an ON (or generic) > protocmp extension to pkglint that would perform these sorts of checks. > I don't have a timeframe yet for when this work would be completed - > once I get a prototype written, I'll have a better idea. > > Does that sound ok? Yep. --Mark _______________________________________________ on-ips-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/on-ips-dev
