Jabber Server?

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Dag Wieers wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> 
> > dag at wieers.com (Dag Wieers) writes:
> > 
> > >> > So should I request a build or are there any open issues with jabberd?
> > >> 
> > >> * '-p' should be used with %install
> > >
> > > Why should it be used ?
> > 
> > afair, it is stated in the packaging guidelines. Beside that: it gives
> > information how old files are, it allows unification across vservers and
> > I do not know a reason why it should not be used.
> 
> There's no big difference between using the actual build time (when %build 
> ran) or the install time (when %install ran). Other than that the install 
> time on the files are most likely somewhat closer together.
> 
> So I really do not see why someone wants to preserve the build time. None 
> of the advantages you state are unique for using -p, they are true for not 
> using -p.
> 
> Or am I missing something obvious here ?

I guess I was. For things (not being build) this extra metadata could 
help in problem determination.

The unification argument is still strange to me.

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