[csw-maintainers] Catalog generation date information in catalog/pkgutil?

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> in some setups, I am sitting behind a rsync'ed local copy of our mirror.
> The rsync job is not within my administrative realm and in case there
> are problems with it, I might see a stale catalog.
> 
> Now to spot such cases, it would be helpful to see the catalog
> generation date. The catalog file itself doesn't seem to contain the
> date directly, though the GPG signature could be used to determine the
> sign date (which doesn't have to be equal to the generation date).
> 
> Would it be possible to integrate the generation date into the catalog
> during build time? And what do you think about integrating this date
> information in pkgutil -V output (or similar)?

A page/box/section on opencsw.org with the generation date for all of
our catalogs (like the one from James [1]) would be neat too!

Sebastian

[1] http://opencsw.oxdrove.co.uk/packages/