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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] small dispatch-conf patch, WAS: extension of etc-update
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:03:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408112303.12503.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d25519e9040811135524aa10@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 11 August 2004 22:55, Radoslaw Stachowiak wrote:
> Hello
>
> I posted my patch to dispatch-conf at http://dev.gentoo.org/~radek/
>
> This patch adds two important (for me :) things:
>
> * Batch mode support, when dispatch updates all possible files (non
> changed etc), and then prints remaining ones and exits.
> * Merge unmodified files, using mtime < ctime comparision. This makes
> unnecessary any md5sum storage/computing, while being (almost?)
> equally safe.

Config files are normally small enough so that md5sum comparison is cheap 
enough. Why then rely on something fragile like mtime < ctime ?

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-11 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-10 10:43 [gentoo-dev] RFC: extension of etc-update Joerg Hoh
2004-08-10 10:48 ` Guy Martin
2004-08-10 10:56 ` Mike Williams
2004-08-10 11:23   ` Joerg Hoh
2004-08-10 11:46     ` Paul de Vrieze
     [not found]     ` <d25519e90408100452548d6501@mail.gmail.com>
2004-08-10 12:04       ` Joerg Hoh
2004-08-10 12:11         ` Radoslaw Stachowiak
2004-08-11 20:55           ` [gentoo-dev] small dispatch-conf patch, WAS: " Radoslaw Stachowiak
2004-08-11 21:03             ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
     [not found]               ` <d25519e9040811143258d8d8ef@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                 ` <200408112338.13758.pauldv@gentoo.org>
2004-08-12  7:35                   ` Radoslaw Stachowiak
2004-08-11  2:51         ` [gentoo-dev] RFC: " Donnie Berkholz
2004-08-11 10:35   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan

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