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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:48:39 -0500
From: "Robert Anderson" <RWA@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] config command idea
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I often have phone/chat/email conversations that go like this:

Guy: "I'm having problem X with your software that I checked out
of the repository."
Me: "Which configuration did you build?"
Guy: "Which what?  Oh, I don't remember.  Y, or maybe Z.  How do
I check?"

At which point I usually go over to their office and take over
the keyboard.

I think there needs to be at the very least a command "Is this
directory consistent with configuration X" which means "for each
directory listed in config X, does the tree-version match that in
the config."  This is robust with manual tweaking, unlike leaving
some kind of dropping somewhere when a config is built.

What you'd really want is "what config(s) is this set of trees
consistent with" but that seems harder.

Bob


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