Re: [Gnu-arch-users] config command idea

[Johannes Berg]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> tla check-config
>
> The output could be something like:
>
> Dir             Config                                              
> Actual
> ./src/tla       address@hidden/tla--devo--1.3                   
> patch-13
> ./src/hackerlab address@hidden/hackerlab--devo--1.3--patch-12   
> <same>
> ...

I'd like to add here some kind of output if the tree was locally modified.

> PS> Has anyone else noticed that if you have a really large config (we
> have 85 projects), tla build-config can fail after a while because "fork
> is temporarily unavailable". It seems to happen while it is forking sh
> (to run gpg) to check signatures. This is with a fresh build-config and
> nothing in the revlib, so there could easily be thousands of signature
> checks. Re-running build-config isn't really an option, since it moves
> existing directories out of the way. Hence at least one need for
> "tla-update-config".

Is that on cygwin?

johannes