Re: [Quilt-dev] Extending on the grouping feature - recursive series

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:59:18PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Friday 08 July 2005 15:16, Sébastien Dugué wrote:
> >   Hi,
> >
> >   extending on the grouping feature, would it be possible to
> > have recursive series files?
> >
> >   What I mean is if an entry in a series file references a directory
> > (instead of a patch file), then get the series file in that directory
> > and apply it (eventally recursing into sub directories).
> >
> >   This would allow grouping of patches without the need to reference
> > every patch file on the toplevel series file, but only the directories
> > into which reside those groups patches.
> 
> I'm not sure this feature is generally useful. It would slow down quilt as a 
> whole. Another issue is how to walk the tree (moving forward and backward), 
> and into which series file to insert new patches. Do you have a case where 
> creating one single series file really causes a significant amount of work? 
> Patches usually don't combine in arbitrary orders anyway, so the different 
> parts of the series file need to be put together very carefully anyway...

We've been talking about doing something like this for a different
reason.  Rather than looking for $SERIES in a subdir, we've been talking
about some sort of include mechanism so that we can have something like:
series.released # Released product.
series.next # Development of next product, 'include's series.released
series.dev_board_a # Development on board a, 'include's series.next

And so on.

-- 
Tom