Archive layout reorganization

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:06:26 +0200
Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:58:58 -0500
> Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:45:04 +0200
> > Landry Breuil <landry.breuil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > > >  http://lunar-linux.org/~jannis/xfce/archive-migration.rb
> > > >
> > > > THIS IS IMPORTANT, so please, please have a look at the files
> > > > and the test archive. Without feedback from you, we won't be
> > > > able to move to the new layout.
> > > >
> > > > If you have any comments/suggestions/fixes, let me know.
> > > 
> > > When copying/linking files/dirs, is it possible to keep
> > > timestamps ? (ctime mostly) - maybe only cosmetic, but can be
> > > useful sometimes when looking for something in the archives. It
> > > may look silly, but i already had to look for 'a tarball released
> > > in May 2007'.
> > 
> > 
> > +1 for this, please.
> 
> Yes, that's possible. Let me regenerate the test archive ...

Correction: it's only possible for files, not directories, because most
directories don't have equivalents in the previous layout. Have a look
at http://mocha.xfce.org/~jannis/archive/xfce/4.0.0/src/, all
timestamps should be preserved.

  - Jannis
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