[syslinux] Website has some 20M tar.sign files??

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 3 Mar 2011 at 16:45, Gene Cumm wrote:

Date sent:      	Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:45:53 -0500
Subject:        	Re: [syslinux] Website has some 20M tar.sign 
files??
From:           	Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>
To:             	For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa 
<syslinux at zytor.com>
Copies to:      	"Michael D. Setzer II" 
<mikes at kuentos.guam.net>

> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 20:27, Michael D. Setzer II
> <mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
> >   The syslinux-4.0.04-pre11 and pre10 have 20MB tar.sign files that other
> >   versions don't, and has dates for Jan 01 1970.  It appears these are
> >   the uncompressed tar files rather than a signature for the file?
> >
> >   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/boot/syslinux/Testing/syslinux-4.04-pre1
> >   1.tar.sign
> 
> Both syslinux-4.04-pre10.tar.sign and syslinux-4.04-pre11.tar.sign
> appear that way but through http://www.kernel.org returns a 403 and
> over FTP gives similar results.
> 
> >   One other note. Last time I checked, it was still using 2010 as the
> >   latest date in the copyright.
> 
> Which file?  README perhaps?  I know other files have different notices.

The copyright is a comment in lots of files and has various dates. 
I am referring to what is reported by the program when run and 
hdt. Using hexedit, it shows the 1994 - 2010 in the running code.

I think the code uses the date from the version.gen file.

%define VERSION 4.04
%define VERSION_STR "4.04"
%define VERSION_MAJOR 4
%define VERSION_MINOR 4
%define YEAR 2010
%define YEAR_STR "2010"

Then in isolinux.asm it has
syslinux_banner	db CR, LF, MY_NAME, ' ', 
VERSION_STR, ' ', DATE_STR, ' ', 0
copyright_str   db ' Copyright (C) 1994-'
		asciidec YEAR
		db ' H. Peter Anvin et al', CR, LF, 0




> 
> -- 
> -Gene
> 
> >   Thanks for all the work..


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