Hi all, Janning has proposed quite a few enhancements to fcopy lately. I think the resulting discussion should be bundled in a single thread and it should actually move to linux-fai-devel (@Janning: don't know, whether you are subscribed to this one already).
Just to summarize, the suggestions were: - some -k/--keep option (which I'd rather call --keep-permissions :-) ) to retain the permissions of the file which should be overwritten (BTW: what should happen if there is no such file?) - some way to return the number of files that were actually copied. My objections were - Adding code to a mission-critical tool like fcopy is dangerous. - More options may confuse users. - The intended behaviour may be simulated using pre-/postinst scripts. In my opinion the first and the second are still valid, however, the third has been proven to be _really_ clumsy. So I guess these options should be added, if a proper patch can be provided. Hoping for further discussion, Michael
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