From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: emacs-dev: 'unpack' phase does not seem to preserve timestamps Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 22:33:04 +0200 Message-ID: <87muwou73z.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874lj6iaap.fsf@gmail.com> <87h8myxvpm.fsf@gnu.org> <874liyxfzz.fsf@gmail.com> <87603dw8sm.fsf@gnu.org> <87muwpw81r.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLwv5-00040y-ED for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 16:33:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLwv4-0008Ej-KI for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 16:33:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87muwpw81r.fsf@gmail.com> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Thu, 24 May 2018 14:29:52 +0200") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: help-guix Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> Nope. Again, Git does not =E2=80=9Cpreserve=E2=80=9D timestamps (rightl= y so IMO), so >> there=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99s a similar kind of issue: when that directory is add= ed 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=E2=80=99.