On 13/04/11, 17:06:46, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote regarding Re: [csw-maintainers] Catalog generation date information in catalog/pkgutil?:
> Although I'm not really sure what good it does you.. it still doesnt > tell you whether it is "in sync" with the master, which seems to be > the high level thing that people "really" want. For that, you still > have to compare one way or the other with "the master". > One made 2 hours ago, could still be "out of date". contrariwise, one > made 2 days ago, might still be UP to date. It allows comparison of different mirrors (or files). The newest on one mirror might not be the newest offered by any server. I can't assume the latest by time stamp is the latest because it's unreliable which is where my mode rule comes in. > Sounds like what people would most like, would be a "catalog last > updated" thingie on our website. > That may as well just go with the output from "ls -l $CATALOG" rather > than having to actually parse the catalog ? Which is tricky when the server fails give a date or the mirrors have the wrong time set or someone copies the file without the time stamp. James. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
