About ports QA by 'port test'

[Peter Pentchev]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:05:31PM +0300, Alexander Churanov wrote:
> Vladimir and other folks,
> 
> I've just looked at the logs for my ports. It's worth to notice that
> portlint gives just wrong results. For example, for devel/boost-jam it
> reports the following:
> 
> FATAL: Makefile: PORTVERSION or DISTVERSION has to be there.
> 
> (reported at
> http://kemia.me.tut.fi/~chu/FreeBSD.port_tests/devel/boost-jam/test.log)
> 
> However, if you cd to /usr/ports/devel/boost-jam and type "make -V
> PORTVERSION", then make prints "1.41.0". The same with MAINTAINER and other
> variables reported as missing.
> 
> So don't take the reports too seriously. It's just a reminder to
> double-check, not the facts.

I wonder if portlint could grow some kind of "ignore these specific
warnings and errors" capability, similar to lintian's override list
in Debian.  I'll have to think about it a bit - maybe the warnings and
errors could have a tag, not just a free-text description.  I'll think
about it a bit longer and then possibly come up with a proposal of
some kind, or maybe even prototype code :)

G'luck,
Peter

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