Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:42:01AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Tim Bird wrote:
> > I agree with Greg.  I have several trees that have over 1000 patches.
> 
> Why are you using quilt and not a VCS for those heavy cases?

I use trees of over 1000 patches working just fine with quilt.  And
those patches themselves are in a VCS (git to be exact, you can see it
at:
        http://en.opensuse.org/Kernel_Git
if you are interested)

The model of patches against a common tarball is quite powerful, and
works very well.


> > I haven't looked at the details of what you are suggesting, but
> > any change that slows 'quilt pop' down by a factor of 3 is not
> > acceptable (to me).
> 
> It would be nice to loose less speed but from the point of view
> of a distribution maker, having it as a shell script simplifies
> the bootstrapping of a new port:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363659

So, writing quilt in C would actually solve your problems :)

Hm, if I ever get bored, that might be an interesting exercise...

thanks,

greg k-h