Subject: Re: lin tpkgsrc & wildcards [was: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc]
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/18/1999 04:02:47
Arrg - I hoped to be able to get away with implementing enough
to work with what is currently used in pkgsrc, but I've been
caught :)
I'll update it to handle ? [] and {,} as well as * - watch this
space...
David/absolute
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
> > Modified Files:
> > pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkglint: Makefile
> > pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkglint/files: lintpkgsrc.pl
> >
> > Log Message:
> > Update to handle wildcard dependencies
>
> I may not fully understand your patch here (who said that perl is a write
> only language, and reading diffs of it doesn't make things worse? :-), but
> as far as I understand, you only look for "pkg-ver*" as a wildcard string.
> Please see the description of the -e switch in pkg_info(1) for a full list
> of all wildcards supported. Hint: it's nasty!
>
>
> - Hubert
>
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