When we [switched to using checkout + force_copy](https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/commit/e8efd1c8dcaad8fbd3b05c400972d237406263e7), a side effect that went unnoticed at the time is that we started setting directory mtimes to zero. See the below bug where we long ago set the file times to zero, which got fixed, so let's not regress things by setting the directory times to zero either. (Even though AFAICS GNU tar doesn't complain about those) This semantic is somewhat "overloaded" onto `force_copy`, but it avoids adding yet another boolean; we don't have that many reserved boolean slots left. I can't really think of many good use cases for `force_copy` *other* than the `/etc` merge anyways. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229160 Closes: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/995 Closes: #997 Approved by: jlebon
This suite of tests is currently run from redhat-ci; they're intended to run as root.