On 15.05.2007 19:04, Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:40:59AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 17:14 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:01:41AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
>>>> Author: ajax
>>>> + mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}${MANDIR}
>>>> + cp powertop.1 ${DESTDIR}${MANDIR}
>>> cp -p would keep timestamps. Maybe not worth it if powertop.1 is
>>> generated, I haven't checked...
>> It isn't. Why would I care about timestamp?
> Packaging guidelines state that it is preferrable to keep timestamps on
> installed files the same as what was packaged.
Well, to give a better reasons than "because it's written": for multilib
installs it's important that the timestamps are identical for files that
are in both the i386 and x86_64 packages.
And (in the long term) making sure the timestamp didn't get changed
might make things easier for presto as well.
Cu
thl
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