Re: [Freedos-devel] Bad dates / false updates in Software List
Hi, On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=base The list pretends many things (HIMEMX, FREECOM, DISKCOPY, ...) to have been updated recently 2011, but this is not true. As mentioned, it's because the date is from when the LSM was updated, not the files themselves. Also the directory timestamps at ibibio are bad / misleading, but surprisingly not for DISKCOPY. To my eyes, all the dirs for Diskcopy seem to have the same date (21 Jan 2008), so I don't see how it's better here. IIRC I had already complained about this some time ago, I can vaguely understand wanting to easily know when something was last updated, but I don't think it's hugely important (or realistic) here. isn't there a set directory timestamps to newest content ? Dunno, I'm pretty *nix noobish, so I couldn't tell you. Anyways, iBiblio is the server, and they run Linux, so whatever Linux does or accepts is what you have to live with: [freedos@login1 ~]$ uptime 14:19:27 up 60 days, 4:59, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.09 [freedos@login1 ~]$ whoami freedos [freedos@login1 ~]$ uname -a Linux login1.ibiblio.org 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue May 31 13:22:04 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I did just now create a temporary subdir under /tmp, used touch -r to use a different file as reference for date, which changed it to 2005, but as soon as you do anything in the newly-created subdir (e.g. create a new text file), the datestamp (at least as shown by default ls) resets to current date. So yeah, that's *nix for ya. I think it'd be too tedious to re-date everything in the archive, esp. for so little benefit. In other words, if you want to know when something was updated, it's probably best just to download it and see for yourself. (Even that's not immune to misleading dates, e.g. it could be a newer recompile of an older tool. And some rare packages erroneously have dates in the future. This is why some people manually datestamp their documents internally.) BTW, I have already been trying to use unzip -T on any files I upload, but usually I don't go searching around applying that to everything and the kitchen sink. ;-) -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Bad dates / false updates in Software List
The Last Updated dates in the Software List represent the last time the LSM entry was modified, NOT the date of the most recent release. We might have done some cleanup on some of those items, or updated the maintainer, and the Last Updated would have been automatically set to when we touched that entry. In most cases, it's because we realized we'd missed the most recent release of something (ie, posted a news item on the web site, but no one mirrored the new version to ibilio or updated the Software List.) When Bernd started working on FreeDOS 1.1, I went through the Software List to make sure everything was correct - and found quite a few items that needed to be updated. jh On Sep 12, 2011 11:52 PM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=base The list pretends many things (HIMEMX, FREECOM, DISKCOPY, ...) to have been updated recently 2011, but this is not true. Also the directory timestamps at ibibio are bad / misleading, but surprisingly not for DISKCOPY. IIRC I had already complained about this some time ago, isn't there a set directory timestamps to newest content ? -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerryreg; mobile platform with sessions, labs more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerryreg; DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerryreg; mobile platform with sessions, labs more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerryreg; DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
[Freedos-devel] Bad dates / false updates in Software List
http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=base The list pretends many things (HIMEMX, FREECOM, DISKCOPY, ...) to have been updated recently 2011, but this is not true. Also the directory timestamps at ibibio are bad / misleading, but surprisingly not for DISKCOPY. IIRC I had already complained about this some time ago, isn't there a set directory timestamps to newest content ? -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerryreg; mobile platform with sessions, labs more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerryreg; DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
