Am Dienstag, den 14.07.2009, 05:04 +0200 schrieb Ralf Corsepius:
Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> Hi,
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> could somebody add a mention of adding INSTALL="install -p" to argument
> of 'make install' as a fix of preserving the time stamp during install
> to the packaging guidelines?
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>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Timestamps
>
> This really should be in the spec file templates as well, since it's
> such a common packaging bug (and shouldn't break anything either).
Well, you are a new-comer to packaging, aren't you?
Otherwise you'd likely know that "install -p" is highly controversal,
because it doesn't guarantee consistency of timestamps and is mostly
"eye-candy".
I consider myself an old stager, nevertheless I hear this for the first
time. Can you please tell me where this was discussed in the past? I
couldn't find anything on fedora-devel or fedora-packaging.
I think you tend to describe your POV as the only valid one - even on
controversial topics.
Ralf
Regards,
Christoph