Re: More Y2K fixes (sharutils)

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Vincent Renardias wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
> > I've just uploaded sharutils_4.2.1-1 to stable (proposed-updates).
> > 
> > This contains a Y2K fix which I think is much better than the one
> > in sharutils 4.2-6, because the created shar script tests for the touch
> > syntax on the system it is executed.
> 
> Is the bug still there in 4.2-6? If not, I'd like to avoid to introduce a
> new package now if possible... If it's just a better fix, it doesn't look
> that critical (plus, I don't think the syntax of touch changed recently).

The bug is still there in the sense that it was not completely fixed.
In 4.2-6, I limited myself to add 1900 to the "year minus 1900" and print
it using four digits, to be used by `touch'. However, the syntax of touch
(namely, the way you have to specify the date when using -t option)
changed from fileutils 3.16 to filutils 4.0. This means that shar archives
produced by a slink machine could be extracted only in a slink machine,
not in potato. Also, I've received a report saying this does not work
properly on Solaris either.

Thanks.

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