From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] preserving mtimes
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 01:52:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080507015219.100c877f@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4820DF4C.7000801@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, 07 May 2008 00:44:28 +0200
"Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@gentoo.org> wrote:
> and I think that would be the correct thing to do, but either way I'd
> like PMS to specify what should happen wrt to mtimes, so that I can
> rely on that.
PMS makes no guarantee as to what happens with mtimes, which means you
can't rely upon things happening one way or the other. This is
deliberate -- preserving mtimes leads to all kinds of weirdness on
packages that are generated from a raw tar file rather than from a
build system.
> Current work-around is tarring up and untarring to preserve mtimes.
That's not really any good either. The proper solution would be to fix
whatever it is that's mtime-sensitive.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-07 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-06 22:44 [gentoo-dev] preserving mtimes Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2008-05-07 0:52 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-05-07 1:35 ` Brian Harring
2008-05-07 2:36 ` Zac Medico
2008-05-10 7:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-05-10 19:30 ` Zac Medico
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