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

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Sun Apr 24 03:11:48 CEST 2011


On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>...  I'd then propose that:
>
> # SITEFEATURES gzippedcatalog
>
> becomes
>
> # SiteFeatures: gzippedcatalog
>
> So that it is consistent with CreationDate.
>
> We could then move forwarding with the following format for any future
> additions to catalog metadata:
>
> # CamelCaseLabel: value
>
> Work for everyone?
>

no, it does not work for me.

As you point out, we already have a pre-existing magic string in the catalog:

> # SITEFEATURES gzippedcatalog

If you want consistency in catalog magic strings, then we could just
as easily go with

 # CREATIONDATE 2011-04-21T20:10:46Z


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