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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:15:16
Message-Id: 20070219161148.677eae4d@snowdrop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass by Timothy Redaelli
1 On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:05:01 +0100 Timothy Redaelli <drizzt@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 | > On Monday 19 February 2007, Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 | >> On 19-02-2007 14:14:18 +0100, Timothy Redaelli wrote:
6 | >>>> cp -a "${S}"/* "${D}"/ || die "copying files failed!"
7 | >>> For future *BSD compatibility (yes i want to use the linux bsd
8 | >>> emulation for flash, opera, etc) it's better to use rsync -a imho
9 | >> For my understanding, what's wrong with cp -pPR?
10 | >
11 | > nothing ... that should be used rather than `rsync -a` which should
12 | > never be found in an ebuild/eclass
13 |
14 | cp -pPR does not copy hardlinks iirc, btw i don't think we need it so
15 | it can work :P
16
17 Neither does your package manager. Nor, probably, should it, given how
18 few filesystems allow hardlinks...
19
20 --
21 Ciaran McCreesh
22 Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org
23 Web : http://ciaranm.org/
24 Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/

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