* Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 08.02.2011 um 16:07 schrieb Sebastian Kayser: > > * Peter FELECAN <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> writes: > >>> - If the "p" flag is present there should be checkpkg-check that > >>> /opt/csw/share/doc/<catalogname>/README.CSW is present. > >> > >> Absolutely right. > > > > Can I ask the naive question of why we need this at all when all the > > applied patches are easily visible from the repository? > > It indicates that a package contains software that does not work > 100% the same as the pristine version does. The flag is not for > "make compile" patches, but for contributed upstream patches not > yet applied to upstream. Personally I see no real need for this, > but it is a nice to have the locally applied things documented.
Thanks Dago. So it's intended for notable derivations from or additions to the the expected (==upstream) functionality - of which we only have very few I suppose. Sebastian _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
