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From: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sstate.bbclass: preserve time when unstaging files
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:24:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lyvcdtgsa6.fsf@ensc-virt.intern.sigma-chemnitz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351527102.2828.19.camel@ted> (Richard Purdie's message of "Mon,  29 Oct 2012 16:11:42 +0000")

Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

>> When packages are recreated after a 'bitbake -c clean', files will get
>> wrong date because tar has been invoked with the '-m' option.
>> 
>> Correct timestamps are useful for bug hunting and there are better
>> ways (e.g. using of ntp) than using '-m'.
>
> This is a revert of:
>
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=2d89cff42af2bb0049224bfaaebaa2b21966169f
>
> where the option was added deliberately to deal with time mismatch
> between autobuilders which was causing real world bugs.

But the real bug is the time mismatch in the autobuilders, isn't it?
And this can/should be solved by synchronizing time by ntp on them
instead of applying dirty hacks like resetting file dates.


Enrico



  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-29 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-29 15:11 [PATCH] sstate.bbclass: preserve time when unstaging files Enrico Scholz
2012-10-29 16:11 ` Richard Purdie
2012-10-29 16:24   ` Enrico Scholz [this message]
2012-10-29 17:22     ` Richard Purdie
2012-10-29 17:59       ` Enrico Scholz
2012-10-29 18:19         ` Richard Purdie
2012-10-29 19:00           ` Enrico Scholz
2012-10-29 21:20             ` Richard Purdie
2012-10-29 21:41               ` Enrico Scholz
2012-10-29 21:55                 ` Richard Purdie

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