Re: Confusing change number info in smoke status

H.Merijn Brand wrote:

> Though shallt not mix p4 and rsync
> 
> smoke cannot distinguish between p4 status and rsync. Both yield a similar
> picture in which .patch is always newer than patchlevel.h (unless you happen
> to rsync just before a snapshot is being released
> 
> So smoke should always read .patch if available, and only fallback to
> patchlevel.h if it is not.
> 
> [ Orks should get the person who changes .patch before smoke starts ]
> 
> FWIW p4 refuses to update files that are writable and newer, so if you _did_
> edit .patch for whatever reason, you have blasted smokes to mount doom

I use p4 sync to pull over a local copy of the repository, then rsync to 
copy that to the individual smoke boxes.  The p4 sync'd copy doesn't have a 
.patch, but the rsync'd copies do.  Now I'm confused...

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Alan Burlison
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