On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 03:25:49PM +0100, Christoph wrote: > > > Copying entire directory structures is the unusual case. It's always > > preferrable that upstream provide some sort of sane build system that > > gets all the permissioning correct. I would suggest using: > > > > cp -dr --no-preserve=ownership > > > > This way, fakeroot installs the files as root but preserves other > > metadata. > > In order to preserve mode and timestamps, the command has to be > either: > > cp -dpr --no-preserve=ownership /sourcedir /targetdir > > or: > > cp -dr --preserve=mode,timestamp /sourcedir /targetdir > > Cheers, > Christoph
Erm right, thanks. Pre-coffee thinko. I was getting at the former. d
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