[Lynx-dev] Someone please fix these FSF mailing lists for good!

[Thorsten Glaser]

Hi people,

please someone tell the US-American FSF to get IPv6!

Find attached below 2 mails:
• the original mail I wanted to send to this list
  (since it probably won't get through)
• the error report… clueless admins…

bye,
//mirabile
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Thorsten Glaser <address@hidden>
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Cc: Benny Siegert <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:44:58 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: lynx2.8.7dev.2 distfile size/checksum mismatch

Thomas Dickey dixit:

>> I get the 3188012b file too. Seems as if the distfile changed,
>> but why? (NB: This is the nightmare of all porters and packagers.)
>
>I haven't touched it...

For reference: I managed to dig out the old .tar.gz, then uncompressed
both, hexdump'd them and put that through diff. Here the results:

--- old/lynx2.8.7dev.2.tar.hd   Fri Mar  2 00:20:48 2007
+++ new/lynx2.8.7dev.2.tar.hd   Fri Mar  2 00:20:51 2007
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 *
 00000060  00 00 00 00 30 30 30 37 - 37 35 20 00 30 32 33 37  |....000775 .0237|
 00000070  31 31 20 00 30 32 33 33 - 37 34 20 00 30 30 30 30  |11 .023374 .0000|
-00000080  30 30 30 30 30 30 30 20 - 31 30 35 32 33 37 35 37  |0000000 10523757|
-00000090  37 30 30 20 30 31 32 37 - 30 37 00 20 35 00 00 00  |700 012707. 5...|
+00000080  30 30 30 30 30 30 30 20 - 31 30 35 32 35 37 34 33  |0000000 10525743|
+00000090  34 31 31 20 30 31 32 37 - 30 33 00 20 35 00 00 00  |411 012703. 5...|
 000000A0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
 *
 00000100  00 75 73 74 61 72 00 30 - 30 64 69 63 6B 65 79 00  |.ustar.00dickey.|
@@ -284676,8 +284676,8 @@
 *
 0046F460  00 00 00 00 30 30 30 37 - 37 35 20 00 30 32 33 37  |....000775 .0237|
 0046F470  31 31 20 00 30 32 33 33 - 37 34 20 00 30 30 30 30  |11 .023374 .0000|
-0046F480  30 30 30 30 30 30 30 20 - 31 30 35 31 33 35 35 35  |0000000 10513555|
-0046F490  37 35 30 20 30 31 33 33 - 32 35 00 20 35 00 00 00  |750 013325. 5...|
+0046F480  30 30 30 30 30 30 30 20 - 31 30 35 32 35 37 34 33  |0000000 10525743|
+0046F490  34 30 31 20 30 31 33 33 - 32 30 00 20 35 00 00 00  |401 013320. 5...|
 0046F4A0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
 *
 0046F500  00 75 73 74 61 72 00 30 - 30 64 69 63 6B 65 79 00  |.ustar.00dickey.|
@@ -510752,8 +510752,8 @@
 *
 007E7E60  00 00 00 00 30 30 30 37 - 37 35 20 00 30 32 33 37  |....000775 .0237|
 007E7E70  31 31 20 00 30 32 33 33 - 37 34 20 00 30 30 30 30  |11 .023374 .0000|
-007E7E80  30 30 30 30 30 30 30 20 - 31 30 35 32 33 37 35 37  |0000000 10523757|
-007E7E90  36 36 33 20 30 31 33 35 - 30 36 00 20 35 00 00 00  |663 013506. 5...|
+007E7E80  30 30 30 30 30 30 30 20 - 31 30 35 32 35 37 34 33  |0000000 10525743|
+007E7E90  34 30 31 20 30 31 33 34 - 37 31 00 20 35 00 00 00  |401 013471. 5...|
 007E7EA0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
 *
 007E7F00  00 75 73 74 61 72 00 30 - 30 64 69 63 6B 65 79 00  |.ustar.00dickey.|

Seems like three timestamps changed. Looking at which…
* lynx2-8-7             10523757700 -> 10525743411
* lynx2-8-7/po          10513555750 -> 10525743401
* lynx2-8-7/src         10523757663 -> 10525743401

No, these can't be timestamps:
10523757700 = Sat Jun 27 18:01:17 UTC 2303

Eww, what's this then? If it were a cpio… well, let's
dig into the sources of the tar driver. Heh! These
are indeed mtimes. (I guess GNU tar's just broken.)

----

Now: why?

bye,
//mirabile
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