Re: Reducing the number of patches in pkgsrc

[Roland Illig <rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> What is this "status" file?  Does it mention the "feedback status" of 
> each patch?  Why don't we put this information in the patch itself?

Because in that case, every status change involves regenerating the 
checksum of the patch, which I don't really like. For example, pbulk 
rebuilds a package whenever a CVS Id of a file in PKGPATH has changed. 
It would be easy to list patches/status as an exception. Listing the 
patches themselves would not be good. :)

Roland