Hi. I'm thinking about the minimal "find" command which does the trick.
The proposed line says this: + find debian/tmp -depth -newermt '$(BUILD_DATE)' -print0 | \ + xargs -0r touch --no-dereference --date='$(BUILD_DATE)' Why -depth? If I were to remove files or directories, the timestamps of the parent directories would be affected. A simple touch, however, does only touch what I tell it to touch, so I don't see why the -depth switch is required here. Do other systems behave differently? kFreeBSD? Hurd? Then we have the -print0 and xargs -0. This is of course needed in the general sense, but if this package had any files containing spaces in their filename I would consider it undesirable and would prefer to fix the package first (in this case I'm only talking about this package). Finally, what would happen if I remove -r from xargs? It would FTBFS if the list of files to be touched is empty, which means the package is being built in the past (before the date in the changelog). Would this be considered as a real FTBFS or as a false positive? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
