Bug 101695 – etc-update breaks svn and cvs tracking of /etc with mv command

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Wesley Leggette 2005-08-07 19:46:01 UTC]

I am currently using subversion to track changes in /etc. etc-update can
sometimes break this when replacing old configuration files with new ones
because moving untracked files to replace tracked files will result in
subversion not realizing a change has occured in the destination file (cp
apparently does not have this problem).

I reported this problem to the subversion mailing list and was told this occurs
because the timestamp is not updated when using mv. I was told that touching the
file after moving it can solve this problem.

I haven't been able to reproduce the problem, which apparently only occurs if
the mtime is wacked out on the temporary configuration file. So the question is,
should etc-update touch the configuration file after replacing it?

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
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[Comment 1 Wesley Leggette 2005-08-07 19:52:48 UTC]

Created attachment 65379 [details, diff]
touches the resulting configuration file

This touches the replaced configuration file to update the mtime. I caught the
mv after replacing with the new config and replacing with the merged config. I
don't know if there are any others.

[Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2006-07-19 03:36:37 UTC]

in r3932

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2006-07-20 14:04:07 UTC]

This has been released in 2.1.1_pre3-r2.