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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: X-KDE-NativeMimeType weirdness
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-10-30 1:55:45
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On Sunday 29 October 2000 17:35, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 October 2000 15:57, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 29 October 2000 14:41, you wrote:
> > > > > Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > > > > On Sunday 29 October 2000 11:07, you wrote:
> > > > > > > I compiled and installed koffice just today, on October 29th.
> > > > > > > So, in order to fix the problem for good, should make install
> > > > > > > in the koffice package set the dates to the current one,
> > > > > > > instead of keeping October 16th around?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That would probably help a lot.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Stephan: Would that be possible?
> > > > >
> > > > > No, that wouldn't be possible. And I don't see how it would help.
> > > > > RPMS don't set the date to current either
> > > >
> > > > Ok. Then we just have to rebuild unconditionally whenever we start
> > > > KDE.
> > > >
> > > > Now that KConfig is up to speed that shouldn't be too bad.
> > >
> > > I don't really understand the problem. Files shouldn't get older,
> > > everything
> > > in KDE keeps the time stamp and RPM does too, so you should only get
> > > updates
> > > or new files. If a file didn't change it's time stamp it didn't change
> > > it's
> > > contents either. Do you check for increasing time stamps or at
> > > changing?
> >
> > Increasing.
>
> That's wrong I would say. What do you expect to have happened when the
> timestamp decreases?

Well, I don't store the modification time of each file. I only know the 
creation date of the database and rebuild when a file with a more recent 
modification date than the database is encountered.

It's clear now that that doesn't work very well.

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
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