Bug#1050545: reportbug: plymouth uses cp -a to create initramfs but cp -r works better for SE Linux and in gneral

[Holger Levsen]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:18:50AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> The solution is to use "cp -r" to copy the files in question, I've attached
> a patch to do this.  Another option would be to use "cp -rpd" which gets
> closer to the original but shouldn't be necessary.

I'm wondering whether "cp -rpd" wouldn't be better still as the resulting
initramfs would be more reproducible, due to not variying timestamps...


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