From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: emacs-dev: 'unpack' phase does not seem to preserve timestamps
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 22:33:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muwou73z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muwpw81r.fsf@gmail.com> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Thu, 24 May 2018 14:29:52 +0200")
Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Nope. Again, Git does not “preserve” timestamps (rightly so IMO), so
>> there’s nothing we can do.
>
> I think there is a misunderstanding: I'm working on a local folder, this
> has nothing to do with git.
>
> From my 'emacs-dev' package definition:
>
> (source (local-file "/home/ambrevar/projects/emacs" #:recursive? #t))
Oh sorry. It’s a similar kind of issue: when that directory is added to
the store, its timestamps are lost. One workaround would be to create a
tarball out of it, and *then* add that tarball to the store. Not
difficult to do, but a bit cumbersome.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-24 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-17 15:14 emacs-dev: 'unpack' phase does not seem to preserve timestamps Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-23 15:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-23 20:40 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-24 12:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-24 12:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-24 20:33 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-05-25 12:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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