[Osgeo4w-trac] [osgeo4w] #458: Generate setup.ini based on aribitrary date and/or time

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#458: Generate setup.ini based on aribitrary date and/or time
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Reporter:  maphew       |       Owner:  osgeo4w-dev@…              
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                        
Priority:  major        |   Component:  Installer                  
 Version:               |    Keywords:  setup.ini                  
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 I released a new [wiki:pkg-apt] testing package today. When I started
 setting up an environment to test what it will do in an upgrade situation
 I realised I need to put Osgeo4W into an older state, which means
 installing no-longer-current packages first. This isn't so easy.

 I think the easiest approach is likely to be to adapting `osgeo4w-
 regen.sh` and `genini` to generate a setup.ini based on a date stamp. Then
 issuing an instruction like `regen.sh 2014-06-01` would crawl the release
 package tree, ignore any files newer than said date, and generate
 `setup_2014-06-01.ini`.

 I scanned `genini` for likely places to put a date filter, but my perl is
 too weak for the task. ;-)

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/458>
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