Re: automated patch dependency and conflict tracking

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 05:19:28PM +0100, Benjamin Schieder wrote:
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> Stefan Fiedler wrote:
> > [ patch-group and patch-report ]
> 
> Hi Stefan.
> 
> First, it's a very nice script and indeed helpful.
> 
> But it would be even more helpful if it wouldn't just assume a sane environment
> and being called directly.
> 
> Checks like
> 
> if [ -z "`which lsdiff`" ] ; then
> 	echo "lsdiff not found!" >&2
> 	echo "Please install the package 'patchutils'!" >&2
> 	exit 1
> fi
> 
> would be nice :)
> Also, you should check for command line arguments being sane (like the existence
> of patches in the patchdir) as well as checking for -h --help -v --verbose switches.
> This is a good start for that: http://shellscripts.org/project/template


Also, if your scripts would output the calls to 'patch' that are necessary to
apply the patches it would be even better :)

Greetings,
	Benjamin
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