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Date:      Sat, 23 Mar 1996 08:20:06 +0000
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        "Richard Wackerbarth" <rkw@dataplex.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG>, "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Peter Wemm" <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
Subject:   Re: Re(2): new sup server 
Message-ID:  <7569.827569206@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "22 Mar 1996 21:20:12 CST." <n1384592440.78725@Richard Wackerbarth> 

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> > [peter]
> > CTM would be *far* better to feed the mirrors with, if only it preserved the
> > timestamps of the files. (phk: hint hint! :-)
> 
> [rkw]
> Well, I totally agree. And I have a suggestion that would be very easy to
> implement.
> 
> All we need to do is add a directive to ctm to set the timestamps to a FIXED
> time for that update.  That way ALL the sup mirrors, and anyone else who gets
> the ctm update, would have the same time for each file, namely the timestamp
> associated with the last ctm update of that file.

Hmm, nice idea...

There already is a nice timestamp in the top of an CTM delta, 
perfectly suitable for that.

Good thinking!

Send me a patch asap!  :-)

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