Hi Chris,

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 02:21:05PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote:
> Author: crees (ports committer)
> Date: Sun Nov 18 14:21:05 2012
> New Revision: 243228
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/243228
> 
> Log:
>   cp -R misses out dotfiles; use pax instead to copy file hierarchies
>   
>   PR:         conf/99721 (based on)
>   Submitted by:       Florian Zavatzki <f_zavat...@blue-network.org>
>   Approved by:        hrs
>   MFC after:  1 month
> 
> Modified:
>   head/etc/rc.initdiskless
> 
> Modified: head/etc/rc.initdiskless
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/etc/rc.initdiskless  Sun Nov 18 14:05:28 2012        (r243227)
> +++ head/etc/rc.initdiskless  Sun Nov 18 14:21:05 2012        (r243228)
> @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ for i in ${templates} ; do
>       subdir=${j##*/}
>       if [ -d $j -a ! -f $j.cpio.gz  ]; then
>           create_md $subdir
> -         cp -Rp $j/ /$subdir
> +         (cd $j && pax -rw . /$subdir)
>       fi
>      done
>      for j in /conf/$i/*.cpio.gz ; do

Have you tested this on a diskless and readonly system? It looks like pax
need to write something in /tmp and it might not be writeable yet. I got
an error, after the first of /bin/pax not found and having to add that to
the list of files needed.

John
-- 
John Hay -- j...@meraka.csir.co.za / j...@freebsd.org
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