On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:02:17PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
> Take for example man- or info-pages: they get compressed at build time so
> the time stamps will always be different between different builds, no
> matter what the timestamp of the original file was. If timestamps caused
> conflicts, no such file could ever be shared even though the content is
> identical.
If I remembmer well, in fedora, man pages timestamps are kept, even if
gzipped.
I don't see any attempt to do time stamp preservation in brp-compress (and
evidence from packages says the same), would be possible of course if
somebody cared enough :) Hmm, would be easy even, as "touch" appears to
have the perfect option for it:
-r, --reference=FILE
use this file’s times instead of current time
- Panu -