Subject: Re: pkglint change
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
From: James Chacon <jchacon@genuity.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/30/2001 02:28:11
>
>Mutt made me believe that James Chacon wrote:
>> - if (substr($2, 0, 6) eq 'patch-')
>> + if ($2 =~ /^patch-..$/)
>[...]
>> Basically this only excludes patch-?? instead of any file starting with
>> patch- (ok only 1 exists today in security/smtpd but lintpkgsrc shouldn't
>> be complaining in any case..)
>
>I think it should be ^patch-[a-z0-9]+$ like it is in bsd.pkg.mk line
>2511, kind of like 'conforming to the source' ;)
I looked through Packages.txt and it referred to patch-* and patch-??
>To my knowledge, there's actually around 10 to 20 files that are not
>in patch-[a-z][a-z] format, some of them e.g. in cross/binutils.
Hmmm...I see those.
Ok, changing it how you have it would still work and accomplish my original
goals.
James