Re: [Gnu-arch-users] off-the-cuff pie-in-the-sky wish

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 08:53, Robert Anderson wrote:
> This seems like a really nice area for automation.  A
> configuration-based dependency tree that serves as a kind of
> meta-make that goes back and rebuilds (and/or tests) everything
> when a dependency (a category) goes "out of date" (i.e., a new
> patch is added).
> 
> I can't build it anytime soon, but it never hurts to throw these
> things out there in case it resonates with someone who might be
> able to.  Or gets thrown into a notes file for overarch, or
> something.

Two, separate thoughts.

1) config-manager is designed to do this sort of iteration + stuff. So,
a little tweak to tla and config-manager would give us:
cm missing <config>
 case $? in
   0 ;; # no change
   1 ;; # changes occured
   2 ;; # error occured

for the whole tree.

2) doesn't make World in the bsd ports system do something similar -
grab the most recent stuff abd build?

Rob
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