The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t

Re:The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t by grantla on Saturday September 28, 2024 @03:01PM (#41682277)

> A number of other distributions such as Debian have taken the leap and switched. Unfortunately, source-based distributions such as Gentoo don’t have it that easy.

For Debian it was extremely painful. A few people probably burned out. Lots of people pointed to source-based distributions and said "they will have it very easy".

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Re:The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t by Denvercoder9 on Saturday September 28, 2024 @05:34PM (#41683147)

> For Debian it was extremely painful.

Do you have any references that elaborate on that? From an outsider perspective, the time64 transition in Debian seemed to have been relatively uncontroversial and smooth. Way better than e.g. the /usr-merge.

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Re:The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t by jlarocco on Saturday September 28, 2024 @06:54PM (#41683491)

https://lwn.net/Articles/812767/

https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time

I'm continually impressed by Debian. My Debian systems are pretty boring, so maybe it's to be expected, but as an end-user neither the /usr merge or time64 transition broke anything for me, and I'm using Testing.

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Re:The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t by ajsnigrutin on Saturday September 28, 2024 @06:31PM (#41683383)

> For Debian it was extremely painful. A few people probably burned out. Lots of people pointed to source-based distributions and said "they will have it very easy".

'easy' in a way "just tell the user to rebuild everything in one go"? :)

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Re:The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t by cbmuser on Sunday September 29, 2024 @02:36PM (#41689381)

> For Debian it was extremely painful.

I did the transition for m68k, powerpc and sh4 and partially for hppa with the help of some other Debian Developers here and there and I'm still alive ;-).

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