On Tue, 15 May 2007 19:15:07 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis 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.
For documentation files and scripts -- and files in general ;) -- it is
nice to know when a file is several years old. For %config files it is
great when mtime only changes when a file is updated actually.
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