Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Before fetching all the files, it would probably nice to fix the >> timestamps so that they correctly reflect the upstream distfile ? > > I guess I'm missing something. Why is this important? Distfiles > are essentially opaque to the MacPorts user, so what would be the > point of going to extra trouble to sync a timestamp from some > remote server (which might not even have the correct time - I've > seen some pretty wacky timestamps out there on the net)?
It's more important that the checksum matches, but I think it is nice to keep the timestamp. Of course, then you have broken systems such as SVN which doesn't even *add* a timestamp... (making for instance the MacPorts tarballs look like they were last modified today instead) But actual modification times are of course also inside the tarball, so it's not crucial. --anders _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
