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regarding --preserve-modification-time does not work on symlinks
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Package: cpio
Version: 2.12+dfsg-6
'-m'
'--preserve-modification-time'
[*note copy-in::,*note copy-pass::]
Retain previous file modification times when creating files.
does not work on symlinks!
$ ls n|cpio -o|(cd tt && cpio -tv)
1 block
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jidanni jidanni 1 Dec 25 18:36 n -> m
1 block
$ ls n|cpio -o|(cd tt && cpio -idvm)
1 block
n
1 block
$ ls -l tt
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jidanni jidanni 1 12-25 18:38 n -> m
The user must make a second pass, using touch --no-dereference -d ...
to restore the dates to the original times.
Why is this important?
Well scripts that check if we have cpio'ed all the current versions of a
list of files will say that we failed.
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Version: 2.15+dfsg-1
This was fixed by upstream in version 2.15 with (upstream) commit
a3eb338a40750ecfd73de7054d44e69008866621.
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