Re: [ANNOUNCE] kpatchup 0.02 kernel patching script

[Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 18:24, Matt Mackall wrote:
> This is an alpha release for people to experiment with. Feedback and
> patches encouraged. Grab your copy today at:

First of all, very nice script.

But, it doesn't look like it properly handles empty directories.  I
tried this command, this morning, and it blew up.  I think it's because
this directory http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/ is
empty because of last night's 2.6.4-rc2 release.  I don't grok python
very well but is the "return p[-1]" there just to cause a fault like
this?  Would it be better if it just returned a "no version of that
patch right now" message and exited nicely?

[dave@nighthawk linux-2.6]$ kpatchup-0.02 2.6-bk
"Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/dave/bin/kpatchup-0.02", line 283, in ?
    b = find_ver(args[0])
  File "/home/dave/bin/kpatchup-0.02", line 240, in find_ver
    return v[0](os.path.dirname(v[1]), v[2])
  File "/home/dave/bin/kpatchup-0.02", line 147, in latest_dir
    return p[-1]
IndexError: list index out of range

I think your script, combined with Rusty's latest-kernel-version could
make me a very happy person.  

-- dave