svn commit: r401299 - head/security/openssh-portable/files
Bryan Drewery
bdrewery at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 12 02:40:11 UTC 2015
On 11/11/15 6:12 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> 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. ;-)
>
We should just ignore portlint at our own discretion since it grows
stupid warnings like this? Mission accomplished?
--
Regards,
Bryan Drewery
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