Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread Jan Stary
On Mar 17 21:55:33, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010-03-17, Jan Stary wrote: > > (It has changed back and forth in the last month.) > > I tried using index.txt files for timestamps to monitor the latency > of mirror updates, but had problems with some of them flipping > between formats; I have a

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread Landry Breuil
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010-03-17, Jan Stary wrote: >> (It has changed back and forth in the last month.) > > I tried using index.txt files for timestamps to monitor the latency > of mirror updates, but had problems with some of them flipping > between form

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-03-17, Jan Stary wrote: > (It has changed back and forth in the last month.) I tried using index.txt files for timestamps to monitor the latency of mirror updates, but had problems with some of them flipping between formats; I have a suspicion that some site or other regenerates index.txt

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread Jan Stary
On Mar 17 10:14:36, Nick Bender wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:44 AM, J.C. Roberts > wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:02:19 +0100 Jan Stary wrote: > > > >> Anyway, what really is the purpose of index.txt being there then? > >> To tell the times and sizes? > > > > To break scripts? ;) > > > >

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread Robert
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:44:50 -0700 "J.C. Roberts" wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:02:19 +0100 Jan Stary wrote: > > > Anyway, what really is the purpose of index.txt being there then? > > To tell the times and sizes? > > To break scripts? ;) > > To put it bluntly, index.txt seems pointless, or

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread Nick Bender
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:44 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:02:19 +0100 Jan Stary wrote: > >> Anyway, what really is the purpose of index.txt being there then? >> To tell the times and sizes? > > To break scripts? ;) > > To put it bluntly, index.txt seems pointless, or more like

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:02:19 +0100 Jan Stary wrote: > Anyway, what really is the purpose of index.txt being there then? > To tell the times and sizes? To break scripts? ;) To put it bluntly, index.txt seems pointless, or more likely, there is some super double secret reason for it to still exis

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread Jan Stary
On Mar 17 05:16:32, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:34:16 +0100 Jan Stary wrote: > > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126678113118214&w=2 > > > > Has the format of > > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/index.txt > > changed again? It seems to be 'ls -l' now. > >

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:34:16 +0100 Jan Stary wrote: > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126678113118214&w=2 > > Has the format of > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/index.txt > changed again? It seems to be 'ls -l' now. > Hi Jan, I think this is the second time I've seen you

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread Jan Stary
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126678113118214&w=2 Has the format of ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/index.txt changed again? It seems to be 'ls -l' now.

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-02-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
> It seems the format of > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/index.txt > has changed again from 'ls -l' to plain 'ls'. > Should scripts expect this format from now on? Yes, it is required by the installer.

format of i386/index.txt

2010-02-21 Thread Jan Stary
It seems the format of ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/index.txt has changed again from 'ls -l' to plain 'ls'. Should scripts expect this format from now on?