From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Sep 9 15:17:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC83437B405 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 13:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f89KVTg92685 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 13:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 13:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Subject: Update to fix CVSup timestamp bug Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This morning a bug was discovered in most versions of CVSup up to and including SNAP_16_1c. The bug causes all newly-updated files to receive incorrect timestamps. Usually the files receive timestamps from early in 1970. This bug has been present for a very long time, but it only began to have an effect when the Unix representation of the date and time passed 1,000,000,000. That occurred on 9 September 2001 at 01:46:40 UTC. Yes, other people had Y2K bugs, but I managed to produce an S1G bug. I have fixed the bug and have released a new snapshot of CVSup, SNAP_16_1d. I have also created binary packages for FreeBSD-4.x which can be installed using "pkg_add". For information about updating your CVSup installation, look here: http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/ To fix the bug, both the client and the server need to be upgraded to SNAP_16_1d. The FreeBSD mirror site maintainers have been working feverishly to upgrade their installations. Many of them are already upgraded, and the rest will be upgraded soon. Meanwhile, all CVSup users should upgrade their CVSup installations. I apologize for the inconvenience caused by this bug, and thank you in advance for your patience. John Polstra This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message