Improves on the rather crude 'skip prepare step' mechanism from #598 by allowing to incorporate the dependencies from an existing .deps file, while still doing everything else that the prepare step does.
This simplifies creating release candidates and major releases since you only have to copy the .deps files in place, without having to take care of all the other files that prepare updates/creates.
Improves on the rather crude 'skip prepare step' mechanism from #598 by allowing to incorporate the dependencies from an existing
.depsfile, while still doing everything else that thepreparestep does.This simplifies creating release candidates and major releases since you only have to copy the
.depsfiles in place, without having to take care of all the other files thatprepareupdates/creates.Ref: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/issues/391#issuecomment-2078667782