On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:55:25 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 23:14 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > ...and from elsewhere in the thread, unless you install carefully > > (install -p) it's not just generated files that'll mismatch but even > > header files that were copied into a devel rpm. > Well, my view is converse: "install -p" doesn't solve anything, because > it doesn't work on generated files. Right. Originally, the reason why "install -p" and "cp -p" have made it into pkg review comments is only that _old_ files from tarballs (or additional SourceX tags) stay _old_ when copying them into the rpm buildroot -- i.e. their old timestamps are preserved. That way the pkg users can see the age of files more easily and see when a file has been updated last. There is a relevant use-case for %doc and %config at least. It helps a lot upon deciding which files to revisit, e.g. after a quarterly update, since a fresh timestamp of a %doc file won't pretend that a pdf/ps manual is a revision from last month when in fact it has been created in 2001 once and never updated since. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
