[wpkg-users] WPKG-GP file modification date comparison fail

[Dafydd Jones (techneg.it)]

Well, I can't help with your actual problem, but I can say that I tend to
check file size for packages like this.
(I add some comments if I need to differentiate between file versions of
the same size - if that makes sense.)

Dafydd


On 2 July 2014 09:53, Pete Boyd <petes-lists at thegoldenear.org> wrote:

> Bumping this in the hope someone can help please. I posted this to the
> wpkg-gp mailing list too and didn't get a reply there either. Thanks.
>
> On 11/06/2014 10:21, Pete Boyd wrote:
> > Hi. I have an issue where I compare 2 files based on their modification
> > date, WPKG-GP gets a modification date of the current time rather, than
> > the actual modification date the file has:
> >
> > Using WPKG-GP on Windows 7, I have a package that just deploys the
> > WPKG-GP config file. I do a modification date comparison of the config
> > file between the version in the Program Files directory and the version
> > I deploy, using:
> >
> > <check type="file" condition="datemodifyequalto"
> > path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Wpkg-GP\Wpkg-GP.ini"
> > value="@%SOFTWARE%\wpkg-gp\Wpkg-GP.ini"/>
> >
> > I do this the same way for Firefox and Thunderbird config files and they
> > work fine. However WPKG-GP's doesn't work because of the following:
> >
> > "Reading last modification date of 'C:\Program
> Files\Wpkg-GP\Wpkg-GP.ini'.
> >
> > Reading file modification date of reference file
> > '\\server\windows-admin\wpkg\packages\wpkg-gp\Wpkg-GP.ini'.
> >
> > Reading last modification date of
> > '\\server\windows-admin\wpkg\packages\wpkg-gp\Wpkg-GP.ini'.
> >
> > Modification date of file 'C:\Program Files\Wpkg-GP\Wpkg-GP.ini' is Tue
> > Jun 10 16:16:24 UTC+0100 2014 which isn't equal to the comparison date
> > Thu May 15 11:25:20 UTC+0100 2014 check failed."
> >
> > It is getting the modification date of the present moment at which it
> > has just copied the file, which surely is wrong? When I look on disk,
> > both files have the same last modification date and creation date. The
> > file in Program Files does not have this modification date of the
> > present moment.
> >
> > Has anyone any idea what's going on please?
> > Thanks
>
>
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> Pete Boyd
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