[OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix /etc/timestamp handling

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Mar 1 23:15:46 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 10:41 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> Recent changes have attempted to make consistant use of /etc/timestamp
> In particular
>   5aab665 initscripts: Make /etc/timestamp consistent again.
>   173a48f image.bbclass: Ensure timestamp matches format used in initscripts after recent changes
>   e32e236 busybox: Enable 64 bit shell tests, and disable non-standard date format interpretation.
> 
> However, this format of the timestamp is not directly compatible with
> the 'date' command line, so it must be reformatted for use.  Also,
> the busybox CONFIG_FEATURE_DATE_COMPAT needs to be enabled so that all 
> versions of 'date', whether from busybox or coreutils, agree on the format 
> when setting the date from the command line.
> 
> Gary Thomas (2):
>   initscripts: Properly format date when set from timestamp
>   busybox: Restore 'date' compatability

Merged to master, thanks.

Richard





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