[pacman-dev] pkgbuild parser in python

[Xavier]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Sebastian Nowicki <sebnow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 1, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is one part of the makepkg test suite I am working on.   It is fairly
>> a simple class that takes a pacman package filename and does some parsing.
>>  Currently that involves getting the file list and the info from the
>> .PKGINFO file.
>>
>> I am still fairly new to python so I am looking for comments on how this
>> could be improved.
>> One idea I have had is to not initialize all the fields in the pkginfo
>> dict and add a test if an array exists before appending.  It would make the
>> code tidier but that would mean the need to test if the field exists when
>> comparing it later.
>
> I didn't really look at the script, but I made a similar parser [1] earlier,
> initially for AUR2 purposes. Looking over it, it seems I don't include the
> file list during parsing, but that can probably be easily added in. Perhaps
> it can be expanded upon, instead of creating a new one. If not it should at
> least help.
>
> [1] http://github.com/sebnow/parched/blob/master/parched.py
>
>

So this is both a pkgbuild and pkginfo parser ?

For the AUR, you just need pkgbuild parser, right ? And this is much
more complex than pkginfo parser.
Actually that's why I hate pkgbuild :)

There was another pkgbuild parser in python , written by stonecrest,
and used there :
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=blob;f=cron-jobs/check_archlinux.py;h=cb433513ce53a515a5a6959e6da4da4a8bf0012f;hb=f404689fc11bbeace243779305ede5b7d7270ae8

But I switched to using bash, because this is just much simpler and
works much better (well this has changed with split pkgbuilds though
:P).

Anyway, go Xyne :P
http://xyne.archlinux.ca/ideas/pkgmeta