On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 11:33 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > 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 ^^^^^^^ => It's just convenience to cater certain user habits. Technically, it's sense-free eye-candy. > 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. How? %doc are completely irrelevant to an installed system, for %config it's contents that matters (did the files contents change?), not timestamps. There is only one use case, where it really matters: time-based dependencies. Such cases normally only occur for back ups and for expanded build-trees. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
