On 10/18/07, Chris Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a great idea, that could potentially save many hours of work. > > What does anyone think? > > > Realistically, 99% of the time the copyright won't change from version > > to version but we still need to check every package each time we > > distribute a new gNS. Having a program deal with this would save time, > > no? We should take advantage of the fact that we now have (or almost > > have) a database from which to do comparison from. Otherwise, we have > > to do all of the work again from scratch. > > > > Can the script by Tryggvib and Lee be cannibalized to do something like > > this? > > > > Am I making sense? Or have I missed something in this process?
If copyright-files don't usually change *at all* (not even a single character) between releases, then trivial solution would be to calculate e.g. SHA1-checksum for all copyright-files and check whether the checksum has changed. -- Markus Laire _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
