Re: incompatibility between lintpkgsrc and some Makefiles

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sat, 03 May 2008 00:22:06 +0300
Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> wrote:

> > It tried running (up-to-date) 'lintpkgsrc -i' on up-to-date HEAD
> > pkgsrc.  The following appeared:
> 
> Just for your information.
> 
> There is an alternative way of doing this job.
> 
>    pkg_info -Q PKGPATH '*' > packages.txt
>    pkg_micro_src_summary < packages.txt 2>/dev/null >
> micro_summary.txt pkg_info -X '*' > inst_pkgs_summary.txt
>    pkg_cmp_summary -p inst_pkgs_summary.txt micro_summary.txt
> 
> This works drammatically faster than lintpkgsrc -i
> 
> All tools are in wip/pkg_summary-utils.
> Manual pages are available
> 
Thanks.

I'm dealing with enough package breakage right now that I don't have
the cycles to experiment with wip -- is this affected by the same
pattern that's annoying lintpkgsrc (and, it turns out, pkg_chk)?


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb