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On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> It's doable. It's just that all mtimes being preserved is clearly wrong |
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> for the 1 Jan 1970 cases. |
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Not if you reset mtimes at unpacking, but: |
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> * Changing mtimes on source trees is likely problematic with autotooled |
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> packages. |
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Good point, I wasn't thinking of that. |
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> Thus, I would let EAPI 4 ebuilds call dopreservemtimes (with an API |
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> similar to docompress) in both src_install and pkg_preinst. Doing so |
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> would instruct the package manager that it must preserve mtimes |
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> (including subsecond, if supported on the filesystem) for a particular |
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> set of paths, even if doing so means no stripping etc. All other mtimes |
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> may be rewritten as the package manager sees fit, and from EAPI 4 |
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> onwards must be rewritten at merge time for anything predating the |
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> start of the build. |
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Thanks for your input. That would work for me although I would prefer |
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if the stripping and such things were kept automatic in order to try |
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and maintain QA at a reasonable level. |
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Denis. |
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