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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Boyle Owen <Ow...@swx.com> on 2007/10/01 09:34:16 UTC
Adding timestamp to apache releases?
Greetings,
To-do list item #1 for this week is "upgrade to 2.2.6". When I was
waiting for the tar-ball to download, it occurred to me that it isn't
blindingly obvious *when* the update was published. There's no date on
the homepage (http://httpd.apache.org/) or on the download page
(http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi) or on the announcement page
(http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.2.html) or even on the
changes log (http://apache.mirror.testserver.li/httpd/CHANGES_2.2)...
It's just that when I announce the upgrade internally, managers like to
see something like a date rather than just an arbitrary version number.
Is there a reason for the coyness or is it just an oversight, like
people who send out invites to parties with elaborate directions and
clip-art but forget to put the date?
Might it be an idea for 2.2.7?
Rgds,
Owen Boyle
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Re: Adding timestamp to apache releases?
Posted by Sander Temme <sc...@apache.org>.
On Oct 1, 2007, at 12:34 AM, Boyle Owen wrote:
> Is there a reason for the coyness or is it just an oversight, like
> people who send out invites to parties with elaborate directions and
> clip-art but forget to put the date?
PGP to the rescue! Just downloaded the release, and Safari preserves
the modification time:
[sctemme@Graymalkin] downloads $ curl -I "http://mirrors.sirium.net/
pub/apache/httpd/httpd-2.2.6.tar.gz"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:51:22 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:31:02 GMT
ETag: "547541-5bfe97-46e05576"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 6028951
Content-Type: application/x-gzip
[sctemme@Graymalkin] downloads $ ls -lt httpd-2.2.6.tar.gz*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sctemme admin 53 Sep 6 12:31
httpd-2.2.6.tar.gz.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 sctemme admin 6028951 Sep 6 12:31 httpd-2.2.6.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 sctemme admin 186 Sep 6 12:31
httpd-2.2.6.tar.gz.asc
Now when I verify the PGP signature:
[sctemme@Graymalkin] downloads $ gpg --verify httpd-2.2.6.tar.gz.asc
gpg: Signature made Tue Sep 4 13:09:41 2007 PDT using DSA key ID
08C975E5
gpg: Good signature from "Jim Jagielski <ji...@apache.org>"
gpg: aka "Jim Jagielski <ji...@zend.com>"
gpg: aka "Jim Jagielski <ji...@jimjag.com>"
gpg: aka "Jim Jagielski <ji...@jaguNET.com>"
gpg: aka "Jim Jagielski <ji...@covalent.net>"
Note the time stamp on the signature. Of course this is the time of
the clock on Jim's computer: I don't think GPG can get a trusted
timestamp for signatures. I looked through the options and saw none.
Perhaps that's something to look into, but for now there is a
timestamp on the signature.
S.
--
Sander Temme
sctemme@apache.org
PGP FP: 51B4 8727 466A 0BC3 69F4 B7B8 B2BE BC40 1529 24AF
Re: Adding timestamp to apache releases?
Posted by Erik Abele <er...@codefaktor.de>.
On 01.10.2007, at 12:22, Erik Abele wrote:
> On 01.10.2007, at 09:58, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
>
> ...
>> I like the idea of adding a date to each news item, be it on
>> httpd.a.o,
>> or our www.apache.org. +1.
>
> +1, see attached patch which adds dates to the index and download
> pages (see changes to site.vsl which add a 2nd column to the
> relevant section headers as soon as a new date="" attribute is
> present).
>
> Please test and give your opinion, works for me on Safari and
> Firefox...
Got a chance to test it on IE today, looks fine so I've added it at
the moment.
Cheers,
Erik
Re: Adding timestamp to apache releases?
Posted by Erik Abele <er...@codefaktor.de>.
On 01.10.2007, at 09:58, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Boyle Owen wrote:
>>
>> Might it be an idea for 2.2.7?
You can also get it from here for now:
http://projects.apache.org/projects/http_server.html
or as a feed:
http://projects.apache.org/feeds/rss/http_server.xml
> I like the idea of adding a date to each news item, be it on
> httpd.a.o,
> or our www.apache.org. +1.
+1, see attached patch which adds dates to the index and download
pages (see changes to site.vsl which add a 2nd column to the relevant
section headers as soon as a new date="" attribute is present).
Please test and give your opinion, works for me on Safari and Firefox...
Cheers,
Erik
Re: Adding timestamp to apache releases?
Posted by Jorge Schrauwen <jo...@gmail.com>.
On 10/1/07, William A. Rowe, Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
>
> Boyle Owen wrote:
> >
> > Might it be an idea for 2.2.7?
>
> I like the idea of adding a date to each news item, be it on httpd.a.o,
> or our www.apache.org. +1.
>
> (Especially since the datestamps of our tarballs are several days prior
> to each release).
>
I like that idea too!
+1
--
~Jorge
Re: Adding timestamp to apache releases?
Posted by "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>.
Boyle Owen wrote:
>
> Might it be an idea for 2.2.7?
I like the idea of adding a date to each news item, be it on httpd.a.o,
or our www.apache.org. +1.
(Especially since the datestamps of our tarballs are several days prior
to each release).