Eric Sandeen wrote: > Patrice Dumas wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 05:07:23AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> Does rpm complain about differing timestamps on files, while the >>> contents is identical? >> It doesn't complain but rpm -V shows the differences, it is better if >> the stamps are the same for common files coming from different packages. > > Waiiit a minute... are you talking about the installed filesystem > timestamps, the mtime that affects the T flag on -V verify? That sounds > like a lot of hoop-jumping to me, although I guess I can see the use for it. > > If I look at e2fsprogs-devel for example, and I install x86_64, then > i386, I do get T mtime mismatches. The timestamps on the files are > related to when the rpm was built, presumeably the time at which they > were %installed during the rpm *build* > > I suppose that if you made sure that every file install kept the > original timestamp from the upstream tarball, and every generated file > pulled tricks to make sure that the mtime was something (what?) that > matched between all arches you could avoid this... but this sounds like > it needs some infrastructure to make it do-able. Urgh... install -p, touch -r ... sorry. I'll shut up now. -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
