[aur-dev] [PATCH] Use bash script to parse pkgbuilds

[Callan Barrett]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok this is a test to get a bash script to parse pkgbuilds rather than
> the current crazy way it's done now.
>
> The pkgbuild is sent through a bash script (thanks Xilon) and the vars
> are output so the result can be evaluated by PHP, this way nothing can
> get missed and there are no bugs with what's parsed. This also gets
> rid of the package contents stuff, didn't really have a choice but it
> seems it's not used for anything, only wasted space. As far as I can
> tell this fixes about 4 bugs currently open on the bug tracker so
> aside from being a huge improvement over the current parsing stuff
> (has anyone ever looked at what that parses, wow) it also fixes a lot
> of bugs. The only downside to it is we can't tell whether a variable
> actually exists or is just empty so no more hand holding and doing
> some faux validation, we parse what we need and the rest of the
> pkgbuild is up to the maintainer.
>
> Although I'm not suggesting we apply *this* patch to the AUR I am
> suggesting we apply some cleaned up form of it since it would be a
> great improvement. This patch does work fine by the way it's just a
> bit messy.
>
> --
> Callan Barrett
>

Note to self: restricted mode is apparently not as restricted as it
sounds, need to look into that and probably how namcap deals with it.

Possibly a chroot?

Also I'm assuming everyone is fine and dandy with this behavior so
when it's not terribly insecure anymore I'll apply this.

-- 
Callan Barrett