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. -- "ecabd098f4783da7ea99d4c5047c125e" (a truly random sig)
