(sorry for top posting, but I remember otherwise you have issues reading HTML quotation)
We originally created these patches when developing changes touching both libosmocore and osmo-nitb. So that instead of reinstalling a whole bunch of Debs every time we would want to test something, we could just drop a single binary, test it and switch back to whatever is running there normally.
There is a few other use cases when we found this option very handy. Once merged, we would probably use it for deployment as well.
Please excuse typos. Written with a touchscreen keyboard.
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Alexander Chemeris
CTO/Founder Fairwaves, Inc.
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