cvs commit: ports/devel/portlint Makefileports/devel/portlint/src portlint.pl

[Oliver Eikemeier]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 13:13, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> 
>>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>
>>>This was supposed to solve a problem that I've personally hit a few
>>>times.  It was just another check to make sure PKGNAME agrees with what
>>>is in distinfo.
>>
>>Could you give me an example? It might be interesting to add this to my
>>rework of the distfiles stuff in PR 67361:
>>  <http://people.freebsd.org/~eik/patches/distfiles/>
>>
>>If it is deemed useful to integrate distinfo into the ports Makefile one 
>>way or the other, it might not be worth to make efforts to check for 
>>stuff that might be obsolete in the future.
> 
> For instance, when fixing hyphenated PORTNAMEs, I sometimes forget to
> adjust DISTNAME, and thus the port is broken.  I always remember a
> portlint run, but it would never catch the problem.
> 
> Joe

So you need a consistency check without fetching the actual distfiles?
I guess it makes sense to include this into bsd.port.mk, since the
involved code is non-trivial, but the logic is already in place. Should
I add a target to my patch, and what kind of output do you expect?

-Oliver