On 09/17/12 14:16, Brock Pytlik wrote:
Everything you have seems reasonable to me. I don't like the idea of using -P with a dummy variant to pkgmerge as a way to republish packages with an existing publisher. I think we just need to bite the bullet and put that functionality into pkgrecv, not try to shove it into pkgmerge where it doesn't belong. It'd be really nice though if the two commands could share their implementation though.
I think I disagree. In fact, merging across publishers would have been useful in a few cases I know of internally in the past.
The other reason I've been reticent to put such functionality into pkgrecv is because it implicitly alters the packages, invalidating any signatures. Placing that functionality into pkgmerge instead seems desirable so that we can continue to keep our 'publication' and 'administrative' tools separate.
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