On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:05:01 +0100 Timothy Redaelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Mike Frysinger wrote:
| > On Monday 19 February 2007, Fabian Groffen wrote:
| >> On 19-02-2007 14:14:18 +0100, Timothy Redaelli wrote:
| >>>>  cp -a "${S}"/* "${D}"/ || die "copying files failed!"
| >>> For future *BSD compatibility (yes i want to use the linux bsd
| >>> emulation for flash, opera, etc) it's better to use rsync -a imho
| >> For my understanding, what's wrong with cp -pPR?
| > 
| > nothing ... that should be used rather than `rsync -a` which should
| > never be found in an ebuild/eclass
| 
| cp -pPR does not copy hardlinks iirc, btw i don't think we need it so
| it can work :P

Neither does your package manager. Nor, probably, should it, given how
few filesystems allow hardlinks...

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