On 07/31/06 13:44, Rick C. Petty wrote:
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:42:02PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
On 07/31/06 12:28, Rick C. Petty wrote:
In both cases, why don't you just use:
/usr/compat/linux/bin/cp
Two reasons - it's not in the base system, so a port has to be installed
- and linux_base is FC3 now, so if you want to talk about bloat...
And the "-l" option is needed in single-user mode? I like not having extra
bloat around when I don't even have /usr mounted and am trying to fix a
disk or misconfiguration. I'm just arguing the usefulness of having it in
the base system vs. using linux_base. The argument that our cp should be
equivalent to gcp seems silly to me.
I never once said our cp should be equivalent. I just provided a patch
that added 2 simple arguments, not the other 10 (or whatever the number is).
"-l" may be a useful option, but at what point is the line drawn between
bloating our base cp and having a gcp port (or using linux_base)??
I don't know, and I'm not (obviously) the one to make those decisions.
"-a" certainly is useless. An alias is far more useful-- even for things
in /bin ! I certainly cp and mv mapped to "cp -i" and "mv -i".. one could
also argue that the our base versions of these use this option by default.
Personally, I prefer to do a post-install patch to add these aliases to
/etc/csh.cshrc (actually on my systems: /etc/csh.aliases) and /etc/profile,
etc.
Another reason is gcp fails to recursively copy a directory that has
symlinks in it.
That sounds like a bug or at least an oversight.
I'm just a FreeBSD user, so what do I know? I'll just do as others have
kindly suggested, and keep my patches to my local servers/systems.
Eric
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