Re: overhaul of the debian ocaml policy

[Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>]

Le 23/08/2010 01:17, Florent Monnier a écrit :
>>> in this example you can't use "origin" as a keyword too, because you
>>> can't prevent an upstream to use an "origin" field too, for example:
>>> origin="janest"
>>> OK one can grep "origin" to display its content, but not *filter* the
>>> META files that come from packagers.
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean.
> 
> filter like List.filter does
> 
> 
> OCAML_DIR=`ocamlc -where`
> ALL_META_FILES=`ls $OCAML_DIR/*/META`
> ADDED_META_FILES=`grep -l packagers $OCAML_DIR/*/META`
> 
> 
> $ALL_META_FILES contains the list of all META files
> $ADDED_META_FILES contains the list of all META files that were added by 
> packagers

And why `grep -l origin` wouldn't work? Of course, I am assuming that
upstream would not use origin. BTW, we should use a less generic and
likely variable name, like meta_added_by.

-- 
Stéphane