From 13f77276d11610171bc7774406b65b6cb73d453a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:22:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * utime() follows symlinks, so don't change the mtime if the
 file is a   symlink.

---
 src/libstore/normalise.cc | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libstore/normalise.cc b/src/libstore/normalise.cc
index fbbaf9e07..9d51a4cd6 100644
--- a/src/libstore/normalise.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/normalise.cc
@@ -334,14 +334,15 @@ void canonicalisePathMetaData(const Path & path)
                 throw SysError(format("changing owner/group of `%1%' to %2%/%3%")
                     % path % getuid() % getgid());
         }
-    }
 
-    if (st.st_mtime != 0) {
-        struct utimbuf utimbuf;
-        utimbuf.actime = st.st_atime;
-        utimbuf.modtime = 0;
-        if (utime(path.c_str(), &utimbuf) == -1) 
-            throw SysError(format("changing modification time of `%1%'") % path);
+        if (st.st_mtime != 0) {
+            struct utimbuf utimbuf;
+            utimbuf.actime = st.st_atime;
+            utimbuf.modtime = 0;
+            if (utime(path.c_str(), &utimbuf) == -1) 
+                throw SysError(format("changing modification time of `%1%'") % path);
+        }
+
     }
 
     if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {