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

[J.H.]

This should be fixed now.  Sorry about that, had a couple of typos in
the new script that generates those.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On 03/03/2011 03:00 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> 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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