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Bug 48493 - Patch for rdate provides quiet mode
Summary: Patch for rdate provides quiet mode
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: PPC Linux
: Highest minor (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Black (RETIRED)
URL: http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/rdate/
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Reported: 2004-04-20 10:58 UTC by Karol Wojtaszek (RETIRED)
Modified: 2004-05-23 02:22 UTC (History)
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Attachments
rdate quiet mode (rdate-quiet_mode.patch,5.60 KB, patch)
2004-04-20 10:59 UTC, Karol Wojtaszek (RETIRED)
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Description Karol Wojtaszek (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-20 10:58:25 UTC
Patch for rdate provides quiet mode. Added -q flag to disable output to screen.
Comment 1 Karol Wojtaszek (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-20 10:59:41 UTC
Created attachment 29712 [details, diff]
rdate quiet mode
Comment 2 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-23 17:04:12 UTC
Have you submitted this to the author?
Comment 3 Karol Wojtaszek (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-24 01:11:42 UTC
No, i don't know who's autor, his e-mail etc.
Comment 4 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-24 01:29:49 UTC
Elliot Lee <sopwith |at| redhat |dot| com>

HOMEPAGE= in the ebuilds - good source of info
Comment 5 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-24 02:32:20 UTC
From a gentoo-core email (included here for your and my reference)

Rdate ebuild
 From: Johan Nilsson <joh-nils@dsv.su.se>
 To: tuxus@gentoo.org
 
Hello,
I'm not sure if you are the correct person to contact about this, but I 
found you in the changelog of rdate.

The rdate program shipped with gentoo is not licensed with GPL and 
belongs to the original author who didn't set any license. I have been 
trying to contact him about this, but failed.

But there is a new written rdate-replacer program written from someone 
at redhat, which http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/rdate have been 
redirected to and the most common linux distributions use.

Is this something gentoo can use instead? The newest version can't be 
found from the freshmeat site, but is 
ftp://people.redhat.com/sopwith/rdate-1.4.tar.gz.

Regards
Johan Nilsson
Comment 6 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-05-11 19:37:07 UTC
rdate 1.4 is now in portage. Can you check that your patch can be cleanly applied to that version. After that can you please reattach the patch here and email Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> who is the redhat maintainer of the rdate package. I'm hopeing on removeing the old rdate versions soon.
Comment 7 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-05-23 02:22:37 UTC
please reopen when patch to 1.4 is available. Sorry for being such a pain about this. You've undoubtly done a good job makeing this patch for the old version its just its not being maintained any more. Because of its old versioning number it would be better removed from portage so that gentoo devs don't get errors that they cannot just palm off to an upstream dev if the problem appears to be there.