From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.cvg.de ([62.153.82.30]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TSsM8-0003X6-7S for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:38:28 +0100 Received: from ensc-virt.intern.sigma-chemnitz.de (ensc-virt.intern.sigma-chemnitz.de [192.168.3.24]) by mail.cvg.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9TGOoBF003031 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:24:52 +0100 Received: from ensc by ensc-virt.intern.sigma-chemnitz.de with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TSs8v-0004gh-Uz; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:24:50 +0100 From: Enrico Scholz To: Richard Purdie References: <1351523465-26489-1-git-send-email-enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de> <1351527102.2828.19.camel@ted> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:24:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1351527102.2828.19.camel@ted> (Richard Purdie's message of "Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:11:42 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: Enrico Scholz X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Probability: 0 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 1 X-Spam-Score: -5.8 X-Spam-Level: ----- X-Spam-Tests: AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL,DSPAM_INNOCENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sstate.bbclass: preserve time when unstaging files X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:38:28 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain Richard Purdie 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