Re: [Quilt-dev] Applying local patches for new upstream releases

[Peter Williams]

Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On 2005-10-11, Peter Williams wrote:
>
> > It would be nice to have a quilt "archive" command to create a tar
> > archive of the patches as it would be very useful for this type of
> > thing.  For a start it would ideally only include those files in the
> > patches directory that are still relevant to the patch set and this
> > would help a lot.
>
>
> I have been thinking of something similar, although with a slightly
> different approach. I sometimes need to verify that I have no unused
> files in my patches subdirectory. I do not want to have old files lying
> around if I no more need them. Also, for one of my projects, I am
> publishing this directory on a regular basis and want to make sure that
> I am not including out-of-date stuff. Rather than having quilt generate
> the archive (I am fine doing it myself),

Having a quilt command to do it would make it easier from me to make 
this functionality available from gquilt :-)

It also isolates the user from the implementation details.  I know this 
isn't as big an issue with the patches directory as for the rest of the 
implementation details but it's still an issue.

Also a logical extension to an "archive" command would be to have an 
option to import a archive into a directory.  Completing the 
functionality the original poster was requesting.

> I just would like a way to
> detect, and optionally delete, any out-of-series patch file.
>
> This could be implemented as a separate command or as an extension of the
> "series" command, for example "quilt series -o" would print the
> out-of-series patch files, and "quilt series -ro" would delete them.
> This shouldn't be too hard to implement.

I think this would be a useful feature regardless of whether there was 
an archive command.  Removal of no longer required back up files would 
also be useful.

> One could run such a command before manually creating an archive from the
> patches directory, so that only patches being currently used are
> included.

Peter
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