[plug] nasty 'at' bug in ubuntu?

[William Kenworthy]

gentoo stable:

*  sys-process/at
      Latest version available: 3.1.8-r11
      Latest version installed: 3.1.8-r11
      Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
      Homepage:
ftp://jurix.jura.uni-sb.de/pub/jurix/source/chroot/appl/at/
      Description: Queues jobs for later execution
      License:     GPL-2

rattus ~ # at -V
at version 3.1.8
Bug reports to: ig25 at rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
Garbled time
rattus ~ #

~x86 (approximates testing):

rattus ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge sys-process/at -vp

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] sys-process/at-3.1.10.1 [3.1.8-r11] 98 kB

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 98 kB
rattus ~ #

I dont see any mention of this bug in the gentoo changelog, or when
looking at gentoo's patches for at, so its looking like a debian
specific "feature"

BillK



On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:06 +0900, Mike Holland wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> >
> > Looks ok on gentoo.
> 
> Thanks. What version of at do you have?
> 
> On ubuntu/debian, dpkg says 3.1.10, but "at -V" still says 3.1.9.
> 
> > Is the timezone set? - looks like there is an hour discrepancy (DST) as
> > well.
> 
> Yes, but I think that will go away when the main bug is fixed.
> 
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