[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gisle Vanem wrote:
> Why does all files in the daily tar-balls have the same timestamp?
> (within some minutes at least). E.g. this
> ftp://ftp.ethereal.com/ethereal/nightly-builds/ethereal-2004-08-04.tar.gz
> 
> has files all with same date and timestamps 09:02 - 09:06.
> For those not using SVN, this makes building from tar-balls pretty
> timeconsuming as all objects must be remade.

Subversion doesn't preserve timestamps by default, and the nightly build
script checks out a fresh copy of the repository with each run.  This
should be fixed with tomorrow's build.

In case anyone else needs this functionality, for the "svn" client you
have to uncomment "use-commit-times = yes" in ~/.subversion/config.
There doesn't appear to be a command-line equivalent.