Re: [Quilt-dev] patch for alternate setup mode

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 04:05 +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> 
> Okay, that's roughly what I guessed. So different series files go with 
> different kernel tarballs as well, right?

Yes, I believe so.

> How about this approach: you add ``# Source: ...'' comments to each of those 
> series files that identify whatever tarball the series is against (filename 
> only; no path); quilt setup already understands those. We add an option to 
> the series command that allows to specify an optional additional search path 
> for the tarballs.
> 
> Then you can do this from the lustre directory:
> 
>       quilt setup --path=.. lustre/kernel_patches/series/2.6-suse.series
> 
> this will untar the tarball and set up the rest as you want.

The response I got from this was that something our developers want to
be able to do is to pop all the patches and then just point the kernel
tree to a different lustre tree (i.e. another branch with possibly
different patches on it) and push those without having to unpack another
tarball.

So it seems that they like not having the unpack step as part of their
"setup".  With the size of a kernel tree and the overhead of removing it
just to unpack it again to apply a different set of patches, I can
understand that.

Thots?

b.

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