On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:02:17PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
Take for example man- or info-pages: they get compressed at build time so the time stamps will always be different between different builds, no matter what the timestamp of the original file was. If timestamps caused conflicts, no such file could ever be shared even though the content is identical.
If I remembmer well, in fedora, man pages timestamps are kept, even if gzipped.
The only thing keeping timestamps will help somewhat is avoiding timestamp difference whining on verification with older rpm versions, 4.6.0 filters them out on shared files (as timestamps are not considered a conflict at install time, it's bogus to consider it a verification failure either).
Ok. then this is not an issue anymore.
-- Pat