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Item4631: preserve attachment file time attributes

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Extension PublishContrib Enhancement Closed   n/a  

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It would be very helpful if file attachments retained their modification times when copied.

I use a two-stage publish process to ensure that deleted topics and attachments aren't present in the final published site. The process looks like this:

  1. Delete the contents of {PublishContrib}{Dir}
  2. Publish using PublishContrib
  3. rsync {PublishContrib}{Dir} to the final destination, using the --delete flag to ensure that "orphaned" content in the final destination is removed
Because the attachment file access and modification times are not retained rsync will always copy the attachments. I can get around this by using the --checksum option to rsync, but this can be quite expensive (my attachments can be quite large).

Here's a small patch to file.pm which copies the access and mod times for files. I didn't do it for directories, because directory times are, in my experience, weird and confusing.

 *** file.pm~    2007-03-26 09:30:18.000000000 -0400
--- file.pm     2007-09-14 11:51:35.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 57,64 ****
  sub addFile {
      my( $this, $from, $to ) = @_;
      my $f = "$this->{web}/$to";
!     eval { File::Copy::copy( $from, "$this->{path}/$f" ); };
      $this->{logger}->logError($@) if $@;
      push( @{$this->{files}}, $f );
  }

--- 57,68 ----
  sub addFile {
      my( $this, $from, $to ) = @_;
      my $f = "$this->{web}/$to";
!     my $dest = "$this->{path}/$f";
!     eval { File::Copy::copy( $from, $dest ); };
      $this->{logger}->logError($@) if $@;
+     my @stat = stat( $from );
+     $this->{logger}->logError("Unable to stat $from") unless @stat;
+     utime( @stat[8,9], $dest );
      push( @{$this->{files}}, $f );
  }

-- TWiki:Main/DiabJerius - 14 Sep 2007

Thanks, very good suggestion.

Patch applied to SVN.

-- TWiki:Main.SteffenPoulsen - 14 Sep 2007

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Summary preserve attachment file time attributes
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.DiabJerius
Codebase 4.1.2
SVN Range TWiki-4.2.0, Sat, 08 Sep 2007, build 14780
AppliesTo Extension
Component PublishContrib
Priority Enhancement
CurrentState Closed
WaitingFor

Checkins TWikirev:14867
TargetRelease n/a
ReleasedIn

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Topic revision: r2 - 2007-09-14 - SteffenPoulsen
 
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