Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Santiago Vila wrote: > >> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Dan Jacobson wrote: > >> > Say, perhaps a "Date:" field could be added to Packages files. > >> Even offline, files have time stamps in mo

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Palmer said: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:06:59PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson said: > > > Off line with just the Packages file, you can't tell a dusty 1997 > > > package from an up to the minute state of the art packa

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Gran writes: > You have the changelogs. Use them. The changelogs are in the Packages file? -- John Hasler

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:06:59PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson said: > > Off line with just the Packages file, you can't tell a dusty 1997 > > package from an up to the minute state of the art package. > > You have the changelogs. Use them. You must hav

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson said: > Off line with just the Packages file, you can't tell a dusty 1997 > package from an up to the minute state of the art package. You have the changelogs. Use them. -- - | ,''`.

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
I challenge you to tell me the dates of the packages using just the Packages file. The best you can do is $ grep-available -F version 200 -s Version|wc -l 1207 But that still leaves $ grep-available -F version 200 -vs Version|wc -l 15127 packages that don't put the date into their version numbers.

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Santiago Vila wrote: > >> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Dan Jacobson wrote: >> >> > Say, perhaps a "Date:" field could be added to Packages files. >> > I mean even dog food has the date stamped on it these days. >> > Even my crumby message has a

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > Say, perhaps a "Date:" field could be added to Packages files. > > I mean even dog food has the date stamped on it these days. > > Even my crumby message has a Date: field. > > Sure, as your eyes scan the MD

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-10 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Say, perhaps a "Date:" field could be added to Packages files. > I mean even dog food has the date stamped on it these days. > Even my crumby message has a Date: field. > Sure, as your eyes scan the MD5sum: field, the package's DNA is > registered in your