[aur-dev] [PATCH] Add timestamp when a package is flagged out-of-date (FS#20848).

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sun Oct 3 14:35:45 EDT 2010


On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Lukas Fleischer
<archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 10:39:37PM -0400, Loui Chang wrote:
>> I was thinking - could we just change things so that OutOfDateTS is the
>> sole indicator of whether a package has been flagged or not?
>>
>> If it's set, then it's out of date.
>> If it's zero or null, then it's up to date.
>
> I basically agree and I already changed the patch to only the
> "OutOfDateTS" column only. The only thing that I'm not sure how to
> implement is the migration code, notably the default timestamp to use
> for packages that are flagged out-of-date when upgrading.
>
> Which is the best value to choose? Zero? UNIX_TIMESTAMP()?

Current time is probably the best idea. I also have no idea why this
isn't just a datetime column.

-Dan


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