[Qgis-user] How to Prevent GeoPackage file from updating modified date when viewed in a Qgis project when it is not being edited

[Nyall Dawson]

On 10 April 2018 at 16:47, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Borys Jurgiel <lists at borysjurgiel.pl>
> wrote:
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>> Dnia wtorek, 10 kwietnia 2018 08:11:48 CEST Alessandro Pasotti pisze:
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>> > Hi, I also faced this problem when Implementing gpkg support in the QGIS
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>> > browser panel: when the file browser scanned the folder, it opened the
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>> > gpkg, which in turn changed its file stats and made the directory
>> > watcher
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>> > think that something has changed in the directory, which in turns
>> > started
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>> > scanning again in a delicious endless loop :)
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>> >
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>> > I think I solved this with a kind of locker for the directory scan
>> > thread,
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>> > but it was't easy.
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>> Ah so this it the loop in 2.18... Could you recall that commit that fixed
>> it in 3.0? I understand it's not trivial to backport it to 2.18?
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> Hi Borys,
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> Are you sure that this is also a problem with 2.x?
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> If I remember correctly 2.x browser panel does not open gpkg for scanning
> contents, this feature was added for 3.x.

I've seen this with recent versions of 2.18

Nyall