Warn about possible problems if the package manager does not preserve file modification times, bugs 181021 and 264130.

(Portage version: 2.2_rc27/cvs/Linux i686)

3 files changed, 34 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/ChangeLog b/app-editors/emacs/ChangeLog
index 86f5aa5fa08c..bc2dffb88014 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 # ChangeLog for app-editors/emacs
 # Copyright 2002-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-editors/emacs/ChangeLog,v 1.307 2009/03/12 10:19:38 ulm Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-editors/emacs/ChangeLog,v 1.308 2009/03/29 09:36:44 ulm Exp $
+
+  29 Mar 2009; Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> emacs-21.4-r18.ebuild,
+  emacs-22.3-r2.ebuild:
+  Warn about possible problems if the package manager does not preserve file
+  modification times, bugs 181021 and 264130.
 
 *emacs-21.4-r18 (12 Mar 2009)
 
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-21.4-r18.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-21.4-r18.ebuild
index abb5f4b51517..11e1dbdfe176 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-21.4-r18.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-21.4-r18.ebuild
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-editors/emacs/emacs-21.4-r18.ebuild,v 1.1 2009/03/12 10:19:38 ulm Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-editors/emacs/emacs-21.4-r18.ebuild,v 1.2 2009/03/29 09:36:44 ulm Exp $
 
 EAPI=2
 WANT_AUTOCONF="2.1"
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ src_install() {
 	keepdir /usr/share/emacs/${PV}/leim
 
 	dodoc BUGS ChangeLog README
+
+	stamp_simple_el=$(stat --format=%Y \
+		"${D}/usr/share/emacs/${FULL_VERSION}/lisp/simple.el")
 }
 
 emacs-infodir-rebuild() {
@@ -178,6 +181,16 @@ pkg_postinst() {
 		elog "You disabled sendmail support for Emacs. If you later install"
 		elog "a MTA then you will need to recompile Emacs. See Bug #11104."
 	fi
+
+	local stamp=$(stat --format=%Y \
+		"${ROOT}/usr/share/emacs/${FULL_VERSION}/lisp/simple.el")
+	if [ "${stamp}" != "${stamp_simple_el}" ]; then
+		echo
+		ewarn "Your package manager does not preserve file modification times"
+		ewarn "when merging. This is a known issue with some package managers"
+		ewarn "and can trigger spurious warnings in Emacs at run time. These"
+		ewarn "warnings can be safely ignored."
+	fi
 }
 
 pkg_postrm() {
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-22.3-r2.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-22.3-r2.ebuild
index 6adb045bf27d..11356a6799f8 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-22.3-r2.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-22.3-r2.ebuild
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-editors/emacs/emacs-22.3-r2.ebuild,v 1.3 2009/03/12 10:19:38 ulm Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-editors/emacs/emacs-22.3-r2.ebuild,v 1.4 2009/03/29 09:36:44 ulm Exp $
 
 EAPI=2
 
@@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ src_install () {
 	elisp-site-file-install "${SITEFILE}" || die
 
 	dodoc AUTHORS BUGS CONTRIBUTE README || die "dodoc failed"
+
+	stamp_simple_el=$(stat --format=%Y \
+		"${D}/usr/share/emacs/${FULL_VERSION}/lisp/simple.el")
 }
 
 emacs-infodir-rebuild() {
@@ -249,6 +252,16 @@ pkg_postinst() {
 	elog "the Emacs eselect module, which also redirects man and info pages."
 	elog "Therefore, several Emacs versions can be installed at the same time."
 	elog "\"man emacs.eselect\" for details."
+
+	local stamp=$(stat --format=%Y \
+		"${ROOT}/usr/share/emacs/${FULL_VERSION}/lisp/simple.el")
+	if [ "${stamp}" != "${stamp_simple_el}" ]; then
+		echo
+		ewarn "Your package manager does not preserve file modification times"
+		ewarn "when merging. This is a known issue with some package managers"
+		ewarn "and can trigger spurious warnings in Emacs at run time. These"
+		ewarn "warnings can be safely ignored."
+	fi
 }
 
 pkg_postrm() {