svn commit: r401299 - head/security/openssh-portable/files

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 12 02:12:26 UTC 2015


On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 09:21:45PM +0000, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> New Revision: 401299
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/401299
> 
> Log:
>   Make portlint stop spamming me.  It's gotten quite silly.

I hope this is a temporary measure, even though portlint(1) can indeed
get annoying at times.  That said, I still don't see the problem with
simply ignoring warnings that do not apply in certain particular case.

>   WARN: /root/svn/ports/security/openssh-portable/files/patch-auth.c:
>   patch was not generated using ``make makepatch''.  It is recommended
>   to use ``make makepatch'' when you need to [re-]generate a patch to
>   ensure proper patch format.

As John had said on IRC, this helps to get consistent patches, because
prople rarely think about these little details ("repo churn? who cares
about it") and portlint(1) warning gives them simple and straight course
of action.  Yet it's true that the check could probably be made somewhat
smarter than simple grepping for "UTC".

TL;DR: instead of adding noise to the patches, it's better to improve
portlint(1).  Or learn how to ignore its warnings. ;-)

./danfe


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