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

[Cilyan Olowen]

Is it really such a hard work to parse PKGBUILD and simulate a bash
behaviour only on variables preceding the build() function ?
The parser needs to be able to :
- affect and replace variables
- support arrays
- support the simple ${x//find/replace} syntax
- what else ?

If this can be tedious with PHP, is it that difficult to realize in python ?

Cilyan

2008/6/10 Loui <louipc.ist at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:16:29 +0800
> "Callan Barrett" <wizzomafizzo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Yeah I'm concerned about how secure it is to actually source the
> PKGBUILD in bash. I don't know if AUR really needs to cover every
> exotic PKGBUILD out there. Having to set up a chroot seems like a bit
> much. It would be nice to have all variables resolved though, and bash
> could make it a lot simpler.
>
>
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