Bug 1688537

Summary:	reposync doesn't preserve timestamp from repo being synced
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Ryan Mullett <rmullett>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Marek Blaha <mblaha>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jan Blazek <jblazek>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.2	CC:	fedoraproject, james.antill, kwalker, mdomonko, pkratoch
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	8.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	dnf-plugins-core-4.0.8-1.el8	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	Feature: reposync command provides new option --remote-time With this option reposync tries to set the timestamps of the downloaded files to those on the remote side.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-11-05 22:21:30 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1681084
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Description Ryan Mullett 2019-03-13 23:00:22 UTC

Description of problem:
When using reposync on RHEL 8 the files that get created in the local repository get a timestamp matching the time the local file is created. This is a deviation from previous releases of RHEL in which the timestamp would match that of the server.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All versions

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. # reposync --repoid=<repoid>

Actual results:
Files created have timestamp from the time they get created locally

Expected results:
Expected that there is either a flag like those used in rsync that allows for preserving the server timestamps (--preserve for example for rsync and for cp). Or that the default is to preserve the timestamp from the repo being synced.

Additional info:
Other syncing utilities either have a --preserve flag as is the case for rsync/cp, or they have the default be to preserve the server timestamp, in the case of wget/curl.

Comment 4 Marek Blaha 2019-05-02 14:52:06 UTC

PR https://github.com/rpm-software-management/librepo/pull/149 and https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/pull/725

Comment 5 Marek Blaha 2019-05-09 05:39:43 UTC

And finally PR https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-core/pull/332 introducing --remote-time command line option for reposync command.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 22:21:30 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3583