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Subject: Re: [Puppet-users] strange mtime/md5sum behaviour and constantly
changing files with links
> as I have some huge files to distribute and md5-sum-checking takes SOME time
> for them, I'm trying to switch to mtime/timestamps, but got no luck. Regularly
> the mtime seems to change and additionally the md5sums generate themselves
> anyway.
I'm pretty sure that the file copying subsystem always uses checksums
regardless of what you ask. This is a bug. I thought I'd developed
it to support any of them, but realized recently I had not.
Message-Id: <5136CF0F-446C-44FB-9CC6-1A2776F60374@madstop.com>
thx for fixing,
Greetings,
/fux