On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:16:25AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > -configure: patch-stamp configure-stamp > > > +configure: patch configure-stamp > > > configure-stamp: > > > dh_testdir > > > > I haven't worked with quilt enough yet to know the answer to this: is there > > not an advantage to having a patch-stamp with quilt? I.e., does quilt store > > enough state that we don't need to worry about additional calls to the > > "patch" target wasting time? > > (patch to samba package switching to quilt) > > I have to admit that I'm not completely sure. Here I applied what we > used in shadow.....Let's ask Martin who made the switch of the shadow > package to quilt and who maintains the quilt packages.
A patch-stamp will give you a little gain, but really little because quilt maintains a whole bunch of status. It knows where it stands in the patch set at every time. Try to travel into the .pc directory if you want to visit it. So, a patch-stamp would save you the time for quilt to get the patch list from debian/patches/serie and the list of applied patches from somewhere in .pc/ and compare them to notice that they match. But that's really quick, I don't see the point of deploying this extra mecanism. Bye, Mt. -- Dans le passé, il y avait plus de futur que maintenant. -- Le Chat
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