From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDdj6-0001xF-7E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:45:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8691EE091B; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:45:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED8EE091B for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:45:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F142867DE6 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:45:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.553 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.553 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.046, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id s93hbW8fCUsA for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6564667DAD for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:45:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NDdia-0003kY-SA for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:45:04 +0100 Received: from ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.21.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:45:04 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:45:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: mtime preservation Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20091120001820.7274bdf7@snowmobile> <7c612fc60911231049n4a51ddb0u30ae72d8ed93cdec@mail.gmail.com> <7c612fc60911251313i705a182as6cf50402c7829beb@mail.gmail.com> <20091125212718.5deb42f8@snowcone> <20091125221327.324e11fb@snowcone> <19213.46817.620937.656202@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20091126001540.08a6e193@snowmobile> <4B0DD08D.8040505@gentoo.org> <20091126011427.GD23443@hrair> <75f3dce80911260435k7b3228b1pb71ebd602f00320b@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6e4aabae-7042-4a73-ab1b-3f86e2f0b675 X-Archives-Hash: c761a81fd78c46beb7e00fd19135a16f David Leverton posted on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:35:53 +0000 as excerpted: > If we're not going to insist on preserving nanoseconds as far as > possible, then package managers should be required to explcitly clear > the nanoseconds part. While I'm not sure what it's going to do to install-times and thus=20 whether it's practical, this /does/ at least in theory make quite some=20 sense to me. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman