In message <[email protected]>
          Jim Nagel <[email protected]> wrote:

>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>    Jim Nagel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> ... manually put real datestamps on the various modules etc once and
>>> for all, and on the outer shell of the !Boot and !System supplied, and
>>> then instruct the autobuilder not to willynilly change the datestamps.
>>> If necessary, could put the skeleton !Boot and !System in a zip within
>>> the download zip to protect their datestamps.

> Michael Drake  wrote on Oct 11:
>> The datestamps were set when the files were added into our Git repository.
>> They will not change again unless the actual files are updated.

> I have now compared the skeleton !Boot files going back a couple of
> years (using utilities by Stefan Bellon and Martin Avison).  The only
> change since Netsurf 2.5 (2010-04-23) is one small file called Aliases
> -- which is dated 2011-09-21.

> The skeleton !System contains the five modules Iconv, SharedULib,
> Tinct and URI.  Modules all have internal dates.  Four of these are
> 2006; the only newer one is Iconv -- which is dated 2011-01-04.

> I emailed Rob and Michael a copy of the skeleton !Boot and !System
> with meaningful datestamps, plus a little explanatory textfile, all
> contained in a zip file where datestamps should be safe from the
> zealous Linux autobuilder, we hope.

Excellent.


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Graham Pickles
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