On Aug 11 07:52:34, feine...@logic.at wrote: > Hi, > > to all experienced porters: is there a best practice for installing a whole > tree of files in do-install? > > I have encountered following patterns: > > cp -Rp > tar -czf - -C ... | tar xzf - -C ... > pax -rw > INSTALL_DATA in a for loop (works only if you list all subdirectories (with > their subdirs etc.))
find /src | cpio -p -d -u /dst > FreeBSD has the COPYTREE* macros for this purpose > (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html#install-copytree). > > If there is such a recommended procedure would it make sense to provide > a similar macro in bsd.port.mk? > > Best regards, > Ingo >
