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Would it not be possible to compute what patches have been applied? I'd guess for many patches it'd be trivially easy to determine if they were in or out; for
by bernardwilson 16y ago
Would it not be possible to compute what patches have been applied?
I'd guess for many patches it'd be trivially easy to determine if they were in or out; for the rest a brute-force search could be done...
- burgerbrain 16y ago"for the rest a brute-force search could be done..." Huhwhat? Brute force: A + B + C = D, where D and A are known.
- pyre 16y agoI'm assuming the parent was talking about publicly available patches, not internally developed Red Hat ones. In that case, you could determine B and C out of a list of possible values by brute-forcing.
- bernardwilson 16y agoNo, some of Bs will be known as they're public patches. the remaining aggregate of C would be 'redhat patch to 2.6.x-y'.