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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-06-06 03:37:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-06-06 03:37:11 +0000 |
| commit | 65764654946644f5c0b36ca106e79e097fcba44d (patch) | |
| tree | 2d0a7628622043608ca2345ea841fc47f0c9e5ee /pym | |
| parent | 74fe0fbfd2325120fdd4bb8165d70732b1767399 (diff) | |
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Comment in portage.movefile() that it's impossible to preserve timestamps of a symlink since utime() only works on the target.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=6740
Diffstat (limited to 'pym')
| -rw-r--r-- | pym/portage/__init__.py | 2 |
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diff --git a/pym/portage/__init__.py b/pym/portage/__init__.py index db268e5fd..901e25875 100644 --- a/pym/portage/__init__.py +++ b/pym/portage/__init__.py @@ -3971,6 +3971,8 @@ def movefile(src,dest,newmtime=None,sstat=None,mysettings=None): else: os.symlink(target,dest) lchown(dest,sstat[stat.ST_UID],sstat[stat.ST_GID]) + # utime() only works on the target of a symlink, so it's not + # possible to perserve mtime on symlinks. return os.lstat(dest)[stat.ST_MTIME] except SystemExit, e: raise |