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Re: emacs-dev: 'unpack' phase does not seem to preserve timestamps
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: emacs-dev: 'unpack' phase does not seem to preserve timestamps |
Date: |
Thu, 24 May 2018 22:33:04 +0200 |
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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’.