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-rw-r--r--pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
index a4c7737d5..17ca0e390 100644
--- a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
+++ b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
@@ -1494,8 +1494,14 @@ class dblink(object):
else:
cfgfiledict["IGNORE"]=0
+ # Timestamp for files being merged. Use time() - 1 in order to prevent
+ # a collision with timestamps that are bumped by the utime() call
+ # inside isprotected(). This ensures that the new and old config have
+ # different timestamps (for the benefit of programs like rsync that
+ # that need distiguishable timestamps to detect file changes).
+ mymtime = long(time.time() - 1)
+
# set umask to 0 for merging; back up umask, save old one in prevmask (since this is a global change)
- mymtime = long(time.time())
prevmask = os.umask(0)
secondhand = []