Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
Perhaps a quick hash/CRC of the filenames of the patches that have been applied? Should be quick to generated and test, and will tell us immediately if we need to run again.
That was another idea, but I thought a sufficient hash would be a very long version number from the start and also would not necessarily increase as updates are applied, or tell us simply which updates have been applied when people ask for help, so I went with multiplying primes. But both have their merits. Hash, CRC or primes are fine by me. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work through http://www.software.coop/