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Re: emacs-dev: 'unpack' phase does not seem to preserve timestamps


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: emacs-dev: 'unpack' phase does not seem to preserve timestamps
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 22:33:04 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux)

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Nope.  Again, Git does not “preserve” timestamps (rightly so IMO), so
>> there’s nothing we can do.
>
> I think there is a misunderstanding: I'm working on a local folder, this
> has nothing to do with git.
>
> From my 'emacs-dev' package definition:
>
>       (source (local-file "/home/ambrevar/projects/emacs" #:recursive? #t))

Oh sorry.  It’s a similar kind of issue: when that directory is added to
the store, its timestamps are lost.  One workaround would be to create a
tarball out of it, and *then* add that tarball to the store.  Not
difficult to do, but a bit cumbersome.

Ludo’.



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