On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:34:06PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
On Sa Oktober 20 2007, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 05:07:23AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Does rpm complain about differing timestamps on files, while the
> > contents is identical?
>
> It doesn't complain but rpm -V shows the differences, it is better if
> the stamps are the same for common files coming from different packages.
Would it be enough to use
%verify(not mtime) /path/to/files
in %files?
I guess so. For some files it could even make more sense than some
things I propose in the multilib trickes page. But when the timestamp
changes comes from patching or not using -p when copying it makes sense
to set them right.
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Pat