Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] SVR4 packages have ancient PSTAMP

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From: "Olivier Biot" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:49:34 +0200
You could also generate a timestamp by means of the "date" command,
and use AC_SUBST for substituting the PSTAMP placeholder with the
althus generated timestamp. I would suggest writing the output of this
"date" command to a file so we can make the generation of the package
depend on that timestamp.

Best regards,

Olivier

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jeff Morriss

|
| Doing a "pkginfo -l ethereal" shows:
|
| >    PKGINST:  ethereal
| >       NAME:  ethereal 0.10.5
| >   CATEGORY:  application,network
| >       ARCH:  sparc
| >    VERSION:  0.10.5
| >     VENDOR:  Ethereal Development Team
| >       DESC:  A GUI network protocol analyzer
| >     PSTAMP:  2000-07-16
| >   INSTDATE:  Jul 12 2004 17:17
| >      EMAIL:  gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| >     STATUS:  completely installed
| >      FILES:       95 installed pathnames
| >                    5 shared pathnames
| >                   13 directories
| >                   49 executables
| >                58134 blocks used (approx)
|
| Note the PSTAMP from 4 years ago...
|
| Simply removing the PSTAMP line (from "pkginfo.in"):
|
| > Index: packaging/svr4/pkginfo.in
| >
===================================================================
| > --- packaging/svr4/pkginfo.in   (revision 11736)
| > +++ packaging/svr4/pkginfo.in   (working copy)
| > @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
| >  CATEGORY="application,network"
| >  DESC="A GUI network protocol analyzer"
| >  VENDOR="Ethereal Development Team"
| > -PSTAMP="2000-07-16"
| >  EMAIL="gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
| >  ISTATES="S s 1 2 3"
| >  RSTATES="S s 1 2 3"
|
| makes the package creation process add a (current) timestamp,
something
| like:
|
| >     PSTAMP:  beartooth20040330110147
|
| (though it will generate a warning message when the package is
| created--I'm not sure why as I think this is the best way for
PSTAMPs to
| be created.)
|
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