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Date:      Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:42:38 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Craig Spannring <cts@internetcds.com>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CVS and Y2K
Message-ID:  <199902251742.KAA18218@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902240506.VAA26449@bangkok.office.cdsnet.net>
References:  <199902240121.RAA25148@bangkok.office.cdsnet.net> <199902240420.VAA13186@mt.sri.com> <199902240506.VAA26449@bangkok.office.cdsnet.net>

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>  > > Does FreeBSD still ship with CVS version 1.9.26?  If so it needs
> to be
>  > > upgraded within the next 9 months or so.  1.9.26 can't parse
> dates
>  > > past 1999-12-31.
>  >
>  > Have you verified this?
> 
> Yup.  I was hit by it a few months ago.  It is documented at:
> 
>    http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/dev-y2k.html
> 
> It only affects client/server installations.

If I remember correctly (and I just perused the CVS sources), this is
fixed in 1.9.28.  Also, the other major Y2K bugs are easily fixed by
using the version of 'getdate.y' from more recent releases.

However, I'm not sure if this is acceptable.  What I'd like to do (if
Peter doesn't mind) is import 1.9.28 (which is what SRI has been using
since it was released), and then also import the getdate.[cy] from 1.10
which should fix all known Y2K bugs in CVS, and still keep us totally
compatible with older FreeBSD/CVS releases.

(We had problems mixing 1.9/1.10 client/servers at SRI, so we reverted
to using 1.9.28 client/servers on everything.)


Nate



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