On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:38:03 +0100 Alexander Berntsen <berna...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 16/12/15 06:33, Zac Medico wrote: > > Disable Manifest "stable mtime" behavior by default, and add a > > corresponding egencache option. > This message tells me nothing about why we need to do this. We need do this because we changed the behavior and the new behavior is counter-intuitive. We already had a number of bugs caused by it, and while it's used by Infra, it's at least unexpected when someone manually runs 'repoman manifest'. I mean, before this all started 'repoman manifest' just updated the Manifest which meant it's mtime changed. Nowadays, it also sets mtime to some value in the past, which means running 'repoman manifest' may result in updated Manifest having mtime older than the old Manifest. As a result, people using rsync are in trouble. And this has been reported too by overlay owners. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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