On 07/19/2009 01:15 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 14.07.2009, 05:04 +0200 schrieb Ralf Corsepius:
>> Jussi Lehtola wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
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.
Ohh, it has been discussed numerous times, so many times I don't
have any particular reference to one of these.
The points behind these discussions are:
* People believe in "timestamps" matter for rpm.
rpm doesn't and must not care about timestamps, otherwise share
files between packages doesn't work.
I thought timestamps mattered for multilib situations causing file
conflicts.
--
Jes