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author | W-Mark Kubacki <wmark@hurrikane.de> | 2012-08-01 21:12:24 +0200 |
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committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2012-08-01 17:54:44 -0700 |
commit | 13abe0398fbe724218c8c9ac2597ebe15d7db7e1 (patch) | |
tree | ce0071d388d3f00ce97b794fca743f9b28c310c1 /bin/lock-helper.py | |
parent | cbebf76d8e5666aad4984f87c2be83d474fe5a7e (diff) | |
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Fix index file's mtime, which can differ from TIMESTAMP.
This enables Portage to reliably query for remote indices with
HTTP-header If-Modified-Since.
Without this patch mtime is greater than TIMESTAMP for large
indices and slow storages - because writing a large file takes
time. If the difference spans a second (TIMESTAMP 08:00:00, mtime
08:00:01), then Portage will always fetch the remote index because
it will appear being modified (mtime is used there) after the copy
has been made (local copy's TIMESTAMP is used here).
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