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Subject: Re: [ptxdist] ptxdist migrate should check for local patches in
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On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 07:10:20PM +0200, Andreas Pretzsch wrote:
> Scenario: There are local patches against a package in "patches" or
> "config/<platform>/patches", which are for one or another legit reason
> not (yet) upstream.
> 
> Now, when updating to a newer ptxdist version, it is possible that the
> version number of such a package changed. Which in turn means that the
> local patches are no longer used. Something that can go unnoticed for
> quite some time, until the reason for these local patches were added
> initially hit.
> Just happened here...
> 
> Suggestion: Have "ptxdist migrate" check for this situation and issue a
> warning.
> 
> As I'll be missing the time to look into this for the foreseeable
> future, I just throw it in here as an addition to the famous TODO
> list ;-)

Great idea!

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