I am making some scripts that extract all homepage URLs out of Portage tree with the purpose of having an application scan the web automatically for updates to packages. After I extracted the URLs I encountered a number of syntax errors in the ebuilds as expected. I _could_ probably script my way around many of these, but instead I think it would be better to make the ebuilds more parseable both for me as well as other people who might wish to do similar things in the future. Thus I request the following minor fixes to be done: kylixlibs3-borqt-3.0.ebuild gnome-iconedit-1.2.0-r5.ebuild quantlib-0.3.0.ebuild utempter-0.5.2.ebuild and all zsh ebuilds Missing http:// in HOMEPAGE arm-headers-2.4.19.ebuild arm-sources-2.4.19.ebuild These use SUBARCH_KERNEL_HOMEPAGE instead of just HOMEPAGE. I guess that is supposed to be that way? xpenguins-2.2.ebuild Missing quotes around homepage URL ri-0.7a.ebuild ri-0.8a.ebuild These use the ${HOMEPAGE} variable inside the ebuild in a comment about the depends. Bad practice imo. -Please fix. flex-2.5.23.ebuild omniORB-305.ebuild Contains a commented out homepage URL. Please decide on one. htmlfontify-0.17.ebuild Invalid homepage URL. About 30 ebuilds have more than 1 homepage URL, and I wonder if something should be done about this? Examples are vimap, and the gtk-themes. This is merely round 1. I will be back with a list of fixes for dead/outdated homepage URLs some time later this week. Regards Frantz Dhin, aka. theDevil
Zach, I should think to specify additional things in HOMEPAGE, you would do HOMEPAGE="${HOMEPAGE} http://your.new.one/" no? The rest are fixed.
SUBARCH_KERNEL_HOMEPAGE="http://www.netwinder.org/" then gets used later in the ebuild by HOMEPAGE="${SUBARCH_KERNEL_HOMEPAGE} http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ \ http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/" So, I think this is a non-issue with arm-headers, though the SUBARCH* stuff should be moving into the ARM profile at some point. As such, there may be many possible HOMEPAGES, depending on which ARM machine profile is selected. Anything else in this bug that needs be addressed?
Since nobody cried "YES!" for a couple of months, maybe this is fixed.
