[horde] Time stamps in Horde Patches

[Ryan Beatty]

Hi,

There is information on how to patch in the WIKI here....

http://wiki.horde.org/FAQ/Admin/Install

cd imp
gunzip patch-imp-4.0.4-4.1.gz
patch -p1 < patch-imp-4.0.4-4.1
cd po
make


Cheers,

Ryan

On 4/28/06, Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz at uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> for the first time, I am trying to apply patches to a horde installation;
> this installation runs under Solaris (SunOS 5.9).
>
> I could not find any description of the patching procedures, neither in
> <http://wiki.horde.org/HowTo>, nor in <
> ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/patches/>,
> nor in <http://ftp.horde.org/pub/horde/patches/>. So I had to figure out
> by
> trial and error (several hours) that I would need the Unix gpatch command.
>
> But now I have a problem setting the correct file modification times.
>
> Quote from patch-horde-3.0.9-3.1:
> > diff -uNr horde-3.0.9/admin/setup/index.php horde-3.1
> /admin/setup/index.php
> > --- horde-3.0.9/admin/setup/index.php     2005-08-24 15:42:19.000000000+0200
> > +++ horde-3.1/admin/setup/index.php       2006-01-19 19:04:00.000000000+0100
>
> These are fully specified time stamps, including time zones.
>
> Quote from patch-horde-3.1-3.1.1:
> > diff -uNr horde-3.1/admin/setup/index.php horde-3.1.1
> /admin/setup/index.php
> > --- horde-3.1/admin/setup/index.php       Thu Jan 19 10:04:00 2006
> > +++ horde-3.1.1/admin/setup/index.php     Tue Mar 28 04:31:08 2006
>
> These timestamps apparently are in local time of zone -0800.
>
>
> Why are the time stamps in different formats?
> What option should I specify with the gpatch command, in each case?
> Is there a possibility to apply both patches in one run (so I will
> not loose the original backup files), and still get the file modi-
> fication times correctly set?
>
>
> Quote from the help file?
> >      -T  or  --set-time
> >         Set the modification and access times  of  patched  files
> >         from  time stamps given in context diff headers, assuming
> >         that the context  diff  headers  use  local  time.   This
> >         option  is  not  recommended, because patches using local
> >         time cannot easily be used by people in other time zones,
> >         and  because  local  time stamps are ambiguous when local
> >         clocks move backwards during daylight-saving time adjust-
> >         ments.   Instead  of  using this option, generate patches
> >         with UTC and use the -Z or --set-utc option instead.
> ...
> >      -Z  or  --set-utc
> >         Set the modification and access times  of  patched  files
> >         from  time stamps given in context diff headers, assuming
> >         that the context diff headers use  Coordinated  Universal
> >         Time  (UTC,  often  known  as  GMT).   Also see the -T or
> >         --set-time option.
> >
> >         The -Z or --set-utc and -T or --set-time options normally
> >         refrain from setting a file's time if the file's original
> >         time does not match the time given in the  patch  header,
> >         or  if its contents do not match the patch exactly.  How-
> >         ever, if the -f or --force option is given, the file time
> >         is set regardless.
>
> The -T option partially works, where the modification times happen
> to be in my own timezone (-0200), as in the 1st example, above;
> but I get awful lots of "time mismatch" errors. I have not tried
> the -Z option, as none of the patch files seem to use UTC, in
> their timestamps.
>
> So, what is the way to go? Can I solve the problem locally,
> or should the Horde team produce patches with time stamps
> in UTC?
>
> Best wishes,
>    Otto Stolz
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