Re: changes file format
Ian Jackson writes:
>James A. Robinson writes ("Re: changes file format "):
No, that's me whom you are quoting here
>> >847dfb732aa3e994f1917d27ffc20eb3 adduser-1.94-2.deb
>> >70fa124c71e5b709019f6729eb8cfe11 adduser-1.94-2.tar.gz
>> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13122 Oct 23 18:43 adduser-1.94-2.deb
>> >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root ian 24448 Oct 23 18:43 adduser-1.94-2.tar.gz
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> File permissions, link count, ownership an modification times on the
>> maintainer's system are not of general interest, why include them in an
>> announcement? The rest easily fits onto a single line and put the fixed length
>> parts in front.
>
>I agree that this is a kludge, and I would write a separate script to
>produce a less overblown output form. However ....
>
>> # md5sum size name
>> 70fa124c71e5b709019f6729eb8cfe11 24448 adduser-1.94-2.tar.gz
>> 847dfb732aa3e994f1917d27ffc20eb3 13122 adduser-1.94-2.deb
>>
>> With fixed length fields the dchanges format will yield a nice readable table
>> and a trivial pipe (left as an exercise to the reader) lets you check the
>> md5sum.
>
>.... this is not good enough.
>
>Remember, our release announcements are intended for general
>consumption and use perhaps even on MSDOS systems, where `a trivial
>pipe' is a major undertaking.
My dos partition contains a port of gawk, no problem to write the pipe :)
In either case it's easier to extract needed parts from a single line than to
collect them from several lines.
>We need to be able to feed the announcement to `md5sum -c', which
>expects <checksum> <space> <space> <filename>.
Just curious, does an msdog version of md5sum grog long filenames?
Should the 8.3 filename be included in the announcement to suit msdogs?
-- Siggy (the middle S.)
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