Not preserving dates/times is likely to cause more issues in the long run I would suspect - the fact that we had to special-case .pyc files at all should be seen as a precursor to that.
Why did we deviate from the existing defaults for most OS's packaging on this point? Darren. Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:08 -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote: >> This is a interesting >> problem, since for some cases it is useful to know when the file >> was installed, and others it's useful to maintain ordering. >> >> Note that we do install files in alphabetical order > > Wouldn't it be better to install files in chronological order > or is the timestamp information not even in the repository? > > Laca > > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
