Added a workflow to keep the help output copyright year current - #6266
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Maybe you could use date directly in configure.ac similar to BUILD_YEAR?
AC_DEFINE(BUILD_YEAR, esyscmd([date +%Y | tr -d '\n']), "Software build year")
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AC_DEFINE(CF_COPYRIGHT, "2023 Northern.tech AS", "Copyright. To be used in help screens")
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Yeah, I considered that but I figure that since Herman just updated the string it was desired to have the hard coded date. |
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Let's ask @olehermanse when he is back. If we decide to do this in a workflow. Then I suggest to put all the logic into a shell script and let the workflow take care of only running that script, committing and creating a PR. A shell script is better because we can run formatters, linters on it. Or simply run it ourselves when debugging |
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This adds a scheduled workflow that does the remembering: on January 2nd it
bumps the
CF_COPYRIGHTand opens the pull request.