Bug 562812 – app-portage/repoman: repoman should test for variables in HOMEPAGE

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Jonas Stein 2015-10-11 10:50:40 UTC]

devmanual says:
===
Never refer to a variable name in the string; include only raw text. 
===

This should be tested by repoman. As of today there are 180 packages using variables. [1]

Some look like a testcase for a parser:
app-emulation/docker-swarm-0.4.0:HOMEPAGE="https://docs.docker.com/${PN##*-}/"

[1] tested with:
qgrep -NC HOMEPAGE= | grep "\\$" 

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Sebastian Pipping 2015-10-11 14:41:50 UTC]

What do you mean by "Some look like a testcase for a parser"?

[Comment 2 Jonas Stein 2015-10-11 15:09:15 UTC]

just a comment on "${PN##*-}/" which makes it not trivial to get the URL from the .ebuild file.

[Comment 3 Jonas Stein 2017-08-24 20:56:55 UTC]

working example code to check for server status in HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI:
https://github.com/mm1ke/gentoo-scripts

[Comment 4 Sam James 2022-07-12 03:18:39 UTC]

repoman support has been removed per bug 835013.

Please file a new bug (or, I suppose, reopen this one) if you feel this check is still applicable to pkgcheck and doesn't already exist.

[Comment 5 Sam James 2022-07-12 03:23:27 UTC]

pkgcheck has ReferenceInMetadataVar (and HomepageInSrcUri).