[flashrom] [PATCH] warn the user if flashrom is x months old

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Fri Jul 8 19:12:11 CEST 2011


Am 08.07.2011 13:35 schrieb Stefan Tauner:
> i had the idea to implement an expiration date for flashrom binaries
> (i.e. a time bomb). in the case distributions ship ancient binaries
> (in the future) this may save a bunch of hardware.
>
> i noted two reactions back then when i proposed this idea on IRC in my
> todo.txt:
>  <twice11> If I validated software to work on some system, I don't want
>  it to suddenly break one year later.
>  <agaran> twice11: but kind notify that version you use is %d days old
>  (and repeated every multiple of time or 100days or so) could be nice
>
> this proof of concept is probably not mergeable - especially the
> strptime() might be a problem (alternatives welcome), but i still think
> it is worth to think about something like this. comments?
>   

Good idea, but we will have to make sure this won't cause problems for
users of live CDs and FreeDOS distributions etc...

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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