From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Allan Wind Subject: Re: cpio command not found Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:58:46 -0400 Message-ID: <20071031135846.GU23408@lifeintegrity.com> References: <18216.31314.990545.518458@lisa.zopyra.com> <20071031133039.GA29065@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> <18216.35066.259686.376571@lisa.zopyra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 31 15:30:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1InEaW-00055m-C3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:30:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755124AbXJaOaP (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:30:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755195AbXJaOaO (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:30:14 -0400 Received: from vs690.rosehosting.com ([209.135.157.90]:42425 "EHLO lifeintegrity.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753653AbXJaOaN (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:30:13 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1886 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:30:13 EDT Received: from viento.lifeintegrity.com (pool-72-93-227-71.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [72.93.227.71]) by submission.lifeintegrity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49017D5C726 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:58:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by viento.lifeintegrity.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 14267248090; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:58:46 -0400 (EDT) Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18216.35066.259686.376571@lisa.zopyra.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 2007-10-31T07:54:02-0600, Bill Lear wrote: > If the system does not have cpio, I think the build of git should > complain and fail, or it should activate code that treats any > repository accessed over the file system as it would file://. git may be build and run on two different hosts, so while the build-time check is good there should be a run-time check as well. /Allan