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| author | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2006-02-15 18:12:37 +0000 |
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| committer | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2006-02-15 18:12:37 +0000 |
| commit | bbe2dbb7f2d0865eb1e948c28a0536dc271d64eb (patch) | |
| tree | 7a3cfa60c6703cf9a5182dc13e14d4678087a285 | |
| parent | c37a40355ce1efa700333cdab6f6f4b7ce07bd24 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-bbe2dbb7f2d0865eb1e948c28a0536dc271d64eb.tar.gz | |
TODO: reinvent the pkglint type system.
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgtools/pkglint/README | 25 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgtools/pkglint/README b/pkgtools/pkglint/README index 17a920abf5b..899b98df57a 100644 --- a/pkgtools/pkglint/README +++ b/pkgtools/pkglint/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: README,v 1.1 2006/02/04 04:10:12 rillig Exp $ +$NetBSD: README,v 1.2 2006/02/15 18:12:37 rillig Exp $ == Current problems == @@ -31,3 +31,26 @@ kind of tool. It does not provide: - Structured data types The pkglint source code is much too big for a single file. + +== The pkglint type system == + +The framework for defining data types in the makevars.map file is +insufficient. It does not allow ACLs that specify which variables may +be read or written by the various actors in pkgsrc. At the moment, the +data type and the permissions are intermixed (see type Readonly). + +Actors: + package -> the package author + system -> the pkgsrc infrastructure + include -> included make files + bl3 -> buildlink3 files + user -> the user via mk.conf + cmdline -> the user via the command line + +Actions: + default -> provide a default value for a variable + append -> append to a list + write -> create or overwrite a variable + readpp -> read the value of a variable during preprocessing + read -> read the value of a variable during execution of the + shell commands |