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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Preserving mtimes for EAPI3
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:44:45
Message-Id: 18896.63210.812087.239007@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Preserving mtimes for EAPI3 by Peter Alfredsen
1 >>>>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Peter Alfredsen wrote:
2
3 >> No, an EAPI bump is necessary. Older (post-EAPI) Portage versions
4 >> do something different, so any ebuild relying upon particular
5 >> behaviour is already broken.
6
7 > For an example of this, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/264308
8
9 I would say that is a secondary problem, caused by the package manager
10 not preserving mtimes, and the eclass trying to work around it.
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12 Ulrich