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On Wednesday 11 August 2004 22:55, Radoslaw Stachowiak wrote: |
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> Hello |
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> I posted my patch to dispatch-conf at http://dev.gentoo.org/~radek/ |
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> This patch adds two important (for me :) things: |
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> * Batch mode support, when dispatch updates all possible files (non |
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> changed etc), and then prints remaining ones and exits. |
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> * Merge unmodified files, using mtime < ctime comparision. This makes |
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> unnecessary any md5sum storage/computing, while being (almost?) |
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> equally safe. |
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Config files are normally small enough so that md5sum comparison is cheap |
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enough. Why then rely on something fragile like mtime < ctime ? |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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