On 2025-09-20 14:34, Kye Hunter wrote:
I don't
think there's any need to look beyond the most intuitive implementation
of the --update=older option: If the timestamps on the target are newer
than the timestamps on the source, don't do anything.
We're talking only mtime, right? --update looks
PS. This is about more than just learnability for newbies -- this issue
tripped me up after 18 years of using Linux as a desktop and/or dev
environment, because I ran into the rare case where a program (in this case
https://github.com/bbuhrow/yafu/) needed a separate working directory for
each inst
On 9/18/25 3:19 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
I also see that (at least on my machine) changing the xattrs does not
affect the file's modification or change times
Well *that's* weird. I would not expect the system calls to do that.
This whole xattr business is a bit of an undocumented zoo, I'm afraid
Paul Eggert wrote in
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|On 2025-09-20 08:57, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> - Given it seems i have problems with Paul Eggert, for example
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|That wording could be interpreted differently from what you intended. :-)
I thus better come to the concl
thank you for the awesome software you provide to all of us!
I found an error in the expr match handling patterns with null
expression subpatterns.
What I tried to achieve was to append a path string to PATH, but only
if it was not already included in PATH; thus I tested with expr match,
which w
On 2025-09-20 08:57, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
- Given it seems i have problems with Paul Eggert, for example
That wording could be interpreted differently from what you intended. :-)
Anyway, I'm looking into a Gnulib workaround for the fakeroot bug - and
it is a bug, in that fakeroot chown doe
Hello Alexey!
Alexey Gladkov wrote in
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|On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 02:37:24PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> Alexey Gladkov wrote in
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|>|On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 11:18:18PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|>|> Alexey Gladkov wrote in
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|>|>|On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 03:45:33PM +020
