Bug 56012 - minor y2k bug
Summary: minor y2k bug
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Powertools
Classification: Retired
Component: mirror
Version: 7.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: bero
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-10 17:58 UTC by Ion Badulescu
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-01-17 15:51:34 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
fix for mirror.pl (608 bytes, patch)
2001-11-13 18:28 UTC, Matt Selsky
no flags Details | Diff
fix for dateconv.pl (392 bytes, patch)
2001-11-13 18:30 UTC, Matt Selsky
no flags Details | Diff

Description Ion Badulescu 2001-11-10 17:58:11 UTC
Description of Problem:
in the emails it sends after mirroring a package, mirror says something like:

Mirrored redhat-5.2-updates (updates.redhat.com:/5.2/en/os -> /misc/mirror/os/linux/redhat/updates/5.2) RedHat 5.2 updates @  8 Nov 101 10:28

Notice year 101... :-) Oh well, another standard perl script bug...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How Reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  mirror a package
2.  read email
3. 

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


Additional Information:
to fix: edit /usr/lib/mirror/dateconv.pl, go to second line from the bottom, replace
      return sprintf( "%2d $months[ $mon + 1 ] %2d %02d:%02d", $mday, $year, $hour, $min );
with
      return sprintf( "%2d $months[ $mon + 1 ] %4d %02d:%02d", $mday, $year + 1900, $hour, $min );

Comment 1 Matt Selsky 2001-11-13 18:27:52 UTC
There is some other small changes necessary.  I tried mailing
mirror-people.ac.uk (the devel list for mirror.pl) but the list
doesn't seem to be working.

Comment 2 Matt Selsky 2001-11-13 18:28:52 UTC
Created attachment 37422 [details]
fix for mirror.pl

Comment 3 Matt Selsky 2001-11-13 18:30:02 UTC
Created attachment 37423 [details]
fix for dateconv.pl

Comment 4 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-01-18 17:10:10 UTC
Since powertools has been discontinued, the official fix is the removal of the
package (sorry).


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