[PATCH] use date -R in mkdeb

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Sun Mar 2 19:20:46 CST 2008


I applied this to my tree tonight.  Workaround until this is in an
official release, for those running with LANG!={C,us_EN},  is to use:

LANG=C dkms mkdeb ...

-Matt

>From 808ff52f4d5e1db0d803eafa0ee48b6fe97ac6d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:00:47 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] use 'date -R' in mkdeb creating debian/changelog

suggested by realKano at directbox.com to avoid locale issues.
---
 dkms |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dkms b/dkms
index 9a9cd3b..9300fb7 100755
--- a/dkms
+++ b/dkms
@@ -2949,7 +2949,7 @@ make_rpm()
 
 function preproc_file()
 {
-    local date_str=`date "+%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z"`
+    local date_str="$(date -R)"
     echo "modifying $1..."
     sed -e "s/MODULE_NAME/$module/" \
         -e "s/MODULE_VERSION/$module_version/" \
-- 
1.5.3



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