Something wrong with portlint?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jan 24 09:20:52 PST 2006


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Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:32:09 -0500 Frank Laszlo
> <laszlof at vonostingroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>> I had all sorts of problems with portlint yesterday.  I kept getting
>>> errors that the COMMENT was missing even though it wasn't.  I got
>>> complaints about things being out of order when they weren't.  (X is
>>> in the MAINTAINER section - but it wasn't.)  In the end, I had to
>>> submit the ports even though they wouldn't pass portlint because *I*
>>> knew they were done correctly (and they worked without errors), not
>>> because portlint gave its stamp of approval.
>>>
>>> Has there been a recent code change that might have caused this?  (I'm
>>> running 5.4 SECURITY on an i386 processor.)
>>>
>>> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
>>> Adjunct Information Security Officer
>>> University of Texas at Dallas
>>> AVIEN Founding Member
>>> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
>>>
>> There has been some extensive port framework changes (see -ports
>> archive) If you send the PR in question, I'd gladly take a look at it
>> for you. Thanks
>>
> There's actually two - 92239 and 92241

In 92239, you moved the CATEGORIES line to the wrong location.  If you
put CATEGORIES right PORTVERSION, it passes portlint just fine.  With
92241, you have a blank line between PORTVERSION and CATEGORIES.  You
can't do that.

portlint is fine.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
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