>>>>> On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Michał Górny wrote: >> >> > +multibuild_merge_root() { >> >> > + [...] >> >> > + if type -P lockf &>/dev/null; then >> >> > + # On BSD, we have 'lockf' wrapper. >> >> > + tar -C "${src}" -f - -c . \ >> >> > + | lockf "${lockfile}" tar -x -f - -C "${dest}" >> >> > + else >> >> > + [...] >> >> > + cp -a -l -n "${src}"/. "${dest}"/
>> Maybe explicitly testing for USERLAND would be less fragile? Or use >> tar everywhere? > I prefer something that can boom into face and let us know that it > is broken rather than silent, poor catch-all. How about adding a couple of "assert" and "die" to tar and cp then? Ulrich