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    SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] kpatchup 0.02 kernel patching script
    On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:22:02AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
    > On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 18:24, Matt Mackall wrote:
    > > This is an alpha release for people to experiment with. Feedback and
    > > patches encouraged. Grab your copy today at:
    >
    > First of all, very nice script.
    >
    > But, it doesn't look like it properly handles empty directories. I
    > tried this command, this morning, and it blew up. I think it's because
    > this directory http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/ is
    > empty because of last night's 2.6.4-rc2 release. I don't grok python
    > very well but is the "return p[-1]" there just to cause a fault like
    > this? Would it be better if it just returned a "no version of that
    > patch right now" message and exited nicely?

    Python does a good job at falling over loudly whenever anything
    unexpected happens. I hadn't noticed that the snapshot directory got
    purged. Hmmm. The right thing is to make it fall back to checking old/
    where the most recent -bk is to be found. Like this:

    $ kpatchup -s 2.6-pre
    2.6.4-rc2
    $ kpatchup -s 2.6-bk
    2.6.4-rc1-bk4

    New version at http://selenic.com/kpatchup/kpatchup-0.03

    I've added a couple other niceties for scripting purposes: a -p option
    which will report the "base" version for a given version, -m which
    will parse Makefile and print the version therein.

    > I think your script, combined with Rusty's latest-kernel-version could
    > make me a very happy person.

    I skimmed latest-kernel-version, is it doing something my -s option
    doesn't do yet?

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    Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting
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