I still don't understand exactly what that means, but I get the general gist, and agree it is not relevant here.
So I think I can give this change a positive review as -p is certainly not *less* standard than -a. I have a trac account. I'll change it to positive review. Bill. On 6 July, 18:19, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill Hart wrote: > > I see -a is the same as -dpR, and clearly -R is not needed as only one > > file is copied. > > > What does the -d do? I don't understand the man file (not unusual, > > linux man documentation is incomprehensible). > > > I would need to know what that does and whether it is needed before I > > could give this patch a positive review. > > > Bill. > > -d is only relevant for symbolic links. > > -d same as --no-dereference --preserve=links > > Then the man page says that P or --no-dereference is 'never follow > symbolic links.' > > -P, --no-dereference > never follow symbolic links in SOURCE > > But -d has the option to preserve specific links. > > So for all practical purposes, since there are no links, -p is good enough. > > > > > > > On 6 July, 08:29, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Bill Hart wrote: > >>> I've just released FLINT 1.4. Get it athttp://www.flintlib.org/ > >> Note, if flint is updated, my fix for Solaris still needs a review at > > >>http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6451 > > >> which fixes a GNUism in spkg-install, and is not a fault of flint. > > >> Perhaps someone could review that. It should not take too much time, as > >> it is only a change of one byte, from the '-a' to the '-p' option of the > >> 'cp' command. > > >> Only one file is copied, so there is no need for the copy to be recursive. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
