Bug 197747

Summary: ports-mgmt/portlint : request to warn on patches that don't have UTC in "---" line
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: John Marino <marino>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: danfe
Priority: --- Flags: bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (marcus)
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description John Marino freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-02-16 21:13:41 UTC 
It is highly desirable that patches are created with "make makepatch" which results in headers like this:

--- lib/krb5/ccache/cc_file.c.orig     2014-10-15 23:55:10 UTC
+++ lib/krb5/ccache/cc_file.c
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ get_size(krb5_context context, krb5_ccac


Unfortunately, a lot of people still use diff, even reverting the "good" format above, resulting in something like this:

--- lib/krb5/ccache/cc_file.c.orig     2014-10-15 16:55:10.000000000 -0700
+++ lib/krb5/ccache/cc_file.c  2015-02-12 13:00:31.967166267 -0800
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@

Notice the desired "-p" option is lost as well.



I think it would be a good idea to check the "--- " line of each patch to make sure it ends in "UTC" and give an appropriate warning and recommendation to use "make makepatch" instead.  Since there can be more than one "--- " line per patch, each matching line should be checked IMO.
Comment 1 Bugzilla Automation freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-02-16 21:13:41 UTC 
Auto-assigned to maintainer marcus@FreeBSD.org
Comment 2 John Marino freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-02-16 21:14:22 UTC 
danfe will probably be interested in this, CC him.
Comment 3 Alexey Dokuchaev freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-03-22 12:15:51 UTC 
I definitely agree with John that this is a problem that should be fixed.  I'd happily review/test proposed patches (or might cook one myself when time permits).
Comment 4 Joe Marcus Clarke freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-03-22 16:32:18 UTC 
Have a look at http://www.marcuscom.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/portlint/portlint.pl.diff?r1=1.350&r2=1.351 .  This is my proposed patch.
Comment 5 John Marino freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-03-22 16:38:06 UTC 
I suggest changing "``make patch''
to
"``make makepatch''.

The perl code looks ok but I didn't test it.
Comment 6 Alexey Dokuchaev freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-03-22 16:39:13 UTC 
(In reply to Joe Marcus Clarke from comment #4)
I won't have time to test it right now, but it looks almost fine overall.  Two nits: 1) the make(1) target is "makepatch", not just "patch", so the full command should be "make makepatch"; and 2) I might be wrong, but I don't see the need for $pline local variable.  Won't combined /UTC\s+$/ work?
Comment 7 Joe Marcus Clarke freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-03-22 16:42:52 UTC 
Thanks.  Updated.
Comment 8 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-04-13 04:53:35 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: marcus
Date: Mon Apr 13 04:53:26 UTC 2015
New revision: 383894
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/383894

Log:
  Update to 2.16.3.

  * Check the patches to make sure they were generated using ``make patch'' [1]
  * Do not throw a bunch of Perl errors if the makefile is bad [2]

  PR:		197747
  		198887

Changes:
  head/ports-mgmt/portlint/Makefile
  head/ports-mgmt/portlint/src/portlint.pl
Comment 9 Joe Marcus Clarke freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-04-13 04:55:04 UTC 
Fixed in 2.16.3.