From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20247 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2004 21:03:20 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 11 Aug 2004 21:03:20 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bv0Fj-0005z8-W8 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:03:20 +0000 Received: (qmail 13218 invoked by uid 89); 11 Aug 2004 21:03:18 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7520 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2004 21:03:18 +0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:03:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040810104326.GB22751@hydra.joerghoh.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_QmoGBftn0FTdKck"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408112303.12503.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] small dispatch-conf patch, WAS: extension of etc-update X-Archives-Salt: 0c368d7c-ef08-4236-906e-2cbae69d12a6 X-Archives-Hash: 67f70bc309d59bf99835f6fc30193d12 --Boundary-02=_QmoGBftn0FTdKck Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 enough. Why then rely on something fragile like mtime < ctime ? Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_QmoGBftn0FTdKck Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBGomQbKx5DBjWFdsRAvuJAKCSrRb4aYyGZbRz15P9G0RbU1DfSwCggGDE cX2jq4E6Ot86IIXaOkSPQRg= =rACC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_QmoGBftn0FTdKck--