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Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> ...
> This is not necessary with cygport because the autotools are always
> regenerated, and not changes in the generated files are not included in
> the patch.
>
> Did you find this particularly necessary somehow, and why?
>
>   

I prefer to have the original timestamps of the files preserved by 
"cygport ... prep".
This should not rely on the source of the file (.tar or .patch).

Not really necessary, it is more a "nice to have" feature ;-)

BTW: Is the -N patch option always appropriate?

Christian


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