source file audit - 2008-11-14

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:52:42 -0600
sandeen at redhat.com (Eric Sandeen) wrote:

> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > Here's attached another run of my sources/patches url checker. 
> > Sorry for the delay in re-running this. 
> > 
> > Hopefully I will start running it again at the first of each month. 
> > 
> > - There are 912 lines in this run. Up from 662 last run.
> > This is a pretty sad increase. ;( 
> 
> Just an idea; should rpmlint check for bad source URLs?  And should
> that maybe get tied in to the commit/tag/build process somehow so you
> get more direct feedback?

Yeah, I would love to tie it into the checkin hooks. 
Hopefully we can have some means of doing this sometime. 

> I'm most likely to fix this stuff if I'm in the middle of making some
> other change, and an automatic check while I'm working on a package
> that says "hey your source URL is no longer valid" would probably
> provoke me to fix it quickly.  :)

Yeah, agreed. Ideally a pre-checkin check, but even a email after you
did a checkin would be nice and better than just running it once a
month. 

> -Eric

kevin
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