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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] make.globals: Change FETCHCOMMAND_RSYNC to --copy-links
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:25:30
Message-Id: w6gk18y6rz4.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] make.globals: Change FETCHCOMMAND_RSYNC to --copy-links by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 > This also removes most of the other options that are irrelevant or even
4 > undesirable to distfile fetching, that is:
5
6 > - '-r' since we always fetch a single file, so recursive operation is
7 > unnecessary
8 > - '-p', '-o', '-g' since we want to apply our permissions and ownership
9 > for distfiles rather than copying the one from mirrors,
10 > - '-D' since we do not expect any devices or specials in distfiles.
11
12 That certainly makes sense, but I don't see it in the actual patch?

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