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Billennium's Over - Anything Break?

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The billennium party at OpenProjects.Net rocked! Check out the log for the whole event over here. Please don't forget to use one of the mirrors. Thanks :-)" Well, anyone have anything break due to the rollover?

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  1. Re:really small stuff by heytal · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A Simpler solution is to change 999999999 to 0999999999 and then it would sort correctly..

  2. cvsup broke by OpperNerd · · Score: 4, Redundant

    This morning a bug was discovered in most versions of CVSup up to
    and including SNAP_16_1c. The bug causes all newly-updated files to
    receive incorrect timestamps. Usually the files receive timestamps
    from early in 1970. This bug has been present for a very long time,
    but it only began to have an effect when the Unix representation of
    the date and time passed 1,000,000,000. That occurred on 9 September
    2001 at 01:46:40 UTC. Yes, other people had Y2K bugs, but I managed
    to produce an S1G bug.

    I have fixed the bug and have released a new snapshot of CVSup,
    SNAP_16_1d. I have also created binary packages for FreeBSD-4.x which
    can be installed using "pkg_add". For information about updating your
    CVSup installation, look here:

    http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/

    To fix the bug, both the client and the server need to be upgraded to
    SNAP_16_1d. The FreeBSD mirror site maintainers have been working
    feverishly to upgrade their installations. Many of them are already
    upgraded, and the rest will be upgraded soon. Meanwhile, all CVSup
    users should upgrade their CVSup installations.

    I apologize for the inconvenience caused by this bug, and thank you
    in advance for your patience.

    John Polstra

    --
    -- unix is for people without a social life - Patrick van Eijk
  3. FreeBSD's CVS tool broke. by ChrisKnight · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 13:31:29 -0700 (PDT)
    Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc.
    From: John Polstra
    To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG
    Subject: Update to fix CVSup timestamp bug
    Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG

    This morning a bug was discovered in most versions of CVSup up to and including SNAP_16_1c. The bug causes all newly-updated files to receive incorrect timestamps. Usually the files receive timestamps from early in 1970. This bug has been present for a very long time, but it only began to have an effect when the Unix representation of
    the date and time passed 1,000,000,000. That occurred on 9 September 2001 at 01:46:40 UTC. Yes, other people had Y2K bugs, but I managed to produce an S1G bug.

    I have fixed the bug and have released a new snapshot of CVSup, SNAP_16_1d. I have also created binary packages for FreeBSD-4.x which
    can be installed using "pkg_add". For information about updating your CVSup installation, look here:

    http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/

    To fix the bug, both the client and the server need to be upgraded to SNAP_16_1d. The FreeBSD mirror site maintainers have been working feverishly to upgrade their installations. Many of them are already upgraded, and the rest will be upgraded soon. Meanwhile, all CVSup users should upgrade their CVSup installations.

    I apologize for the inconvenience caused by this bug, and thank you in advance for your patience.

    John Polstra

    This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce.
    The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities,
    important events and project milestones.
    See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org

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