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openSUSE's Brockmeier sees distro coming into its own

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT
Of all the community distributions, probably the least known is openSUSE. After two and a half years, the distro is not only still working out details about how its community operates -- including how its governing board is elected -- but also struggling to come out of the shadow of its corporate parent Novell, much as Fedora has emerged from its initial dominance by Red Hat. With the pending release of openSUSE 11.0, community manager Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier suggests that the distribution is finally starting to get the recognition it deserves. In the middle of preparations for the new release, Brockmeier took the time to talk with Linux.com about the priorities within the community and its relation with the larger world of free software.


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Test::CheckManifest(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Test::CheckManifest(3pm)

NAME
Test::CheckManifest - Check if your Manifest matches your distro VERSION
version 1.25 SYNOPSIS
use Test::CheckManifest; ok_manifest(); DESCRIPTION
"Test::CheckManifest" EXPORT There is only one method exported: "ok_manifest" METHODS
ok_manifest [{exclude => $arref}][$msg] checks whether the Manifest file matches the distro or not. To match a distro the Manifest has to name all files that come along with the distribution. To check the Manifest file, this module searches for a file named "MANIFEST". To exclude some directories from this test, you can specify these dirs in the hashref. ok_manifest({exclude => ['/var/test/']}); is ok if the files in "/path/to/your/dist/var/test/" are not named in the "MANIFEST" file. That means that the paths in the exclude array must be "pseudo-absolute" (absolute to your distribution). To use a "filter" you can use the key "filter" ok_manifest({filter => [qr/.svn/]}); With that you can exclude all files with an '.svn' in the filename or in the path from the test. These files would be excluded (as examples): o /dist/var/.svn/test o /dist/lib/test.svn You can also combine "filter" and "exclude" with 'and' or 'or' default is 'or': ok_manifest({exclude => ['/var/test'], filter => [qr/.svn/], bool => 'and'}); These files have to be named in the "MANIFEST": o /var/foo/.svn/any.file o /dist/t/file.svn o /var/test/test.txt These files not: o /var/test/.svn/* o /var/test/file.svn EXCLUDING FILES
Beside "filter" and "exclude" there is another way to exclude files: "MANIFEST.SKIP". This is a file with filenames that should be excluded: t/my_very_own.t file_to.skip ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Great thanks to Christopher H. Laco, who did a lot of testing stuff for me and he reported some bugs to RT. AUTHOR
Renee Baecker, <module@renee-baecker.de> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2006 - 2011 by Renee Baecker This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Artistic License 2.0 AUTHOR
Renee Baecker <module@renee-baecker.de> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2011 by Renee Baecker. This is free software, licensed under: The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible) perl v5.14.2 2012-01-31 Test::CheckManifest(3pm)