Copy the mtime on puppet generate types #9206
                
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When installing a new module it can maintain the file timestamps from the original tarball (like g10 does). puppet generate types uses the timestamp of when it ran.
If you update a module to a release that was created before it ran puppet types generate, it will never update the types. This can happen with a module downgrade, or just when you regenerated types manually. By using --force the timestamps are ignored, but that's only a workaround.
This new approach copies the mtime from the source file to the generated cache file. It is only considered up to date if the mtime matches.
Reviewer notes:
<=>onFile::Stat) while in copying it is explicit - should this be changed in comparison?