[aur-general] script for running namcap on a AUR maintainer's packages
It's useful to run namcap on a maintainer's packages on the AUR, especially when people apply for TU. This pair of scripts fetches the package names belonging to a maintainer (it only fetches the first 100 results though) and the second runs namcap on the package list by downloading the PKGBUILDs from AUR. -- Abhishek
Excerpts from Abhishek Dasgupta's message of Fri Jul 03 12:48:55 -0400 2009:
It's useful to run namcap on a maintainer's packages on the AUR, especially when people apply for TU. This pair of scripts fetches the package names belonging to a maintainer (it only fetches the first 100 results though) and the second runs namcap on the package list by downloading the PKGBUILDs from AUR.
I like this idea, good work as usual. -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)
I'm having a problem with namcap-aur-pkgs. I enter any aur package,
correct to the syntax, and it fails to download it, instead going
straight to cat somthing or other. This errors out and I get no
further. I had a quick look at the code, and the problem seems in the
last little bit. Anyway, I've got it working, see below for my code
and a patch for yours.
Thanks,
Laurie
2009/7/3 Abhishek Dasgupta
It's useful to run namcap on a maintainer's packages on the AUR, especially when people apply for TU. This pair of scripts fetches the package names belonging to a maintainer (it only fetches the first 100 results though) and the second runs namcap on the package list by downloading the PKGBUILDs from AUR.
-- Abhishek
On Fri 03 Jul 2009 22:18 +0530, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote:
It's useful to run namcap on a maintainer's packages on the AUR, especially when people apply for TU. This pair of scripts fetches the package names belonging to a maintainer (it only fetches the first 100 results though) and the second runs namcap on the package list by downloading the PKGBUILDs from AUR.
Security warning: namcap uses a bash script to source PKGBUILDs and interpret it's contents. Be wary if running this script on untrusted PKGBUILDs. You may lose your data. A safe bet is to run this as a user with very limited privileges. Cheers.
participants (4)
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Abhishek Dasgupta
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Andrei Thorp
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Laurie Clark-Michalek
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Loui Chang