[mirror-admin] A question about timestamp issues.

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:20:48PM +0530, susmit shannigrahi wrote:
> Hi,
> I was just curious to know this.
> 
> If I copy Fedora repo carelessly and
> change the timestamps of the rpm packages as well as of the metadata,
> what are the _exact_ problem that will happen?

That depends on the rsync switches you use.

> Update won't work anymore I guess.
> But will there be any problem with the Everything directory with
> changed timestamp?

rsync will fall back to comparing checksums if the size/timestamp
don't match. E.g. as if you called rsync with the -c switch.
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