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From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] image.bbclass, kernel.bbclass: create warning file about deleting deploydir files
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:22:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1314091333.6733.311.camel@phil-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110823064454.GA8170@chargestorm.se>

On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 08:44 +0200, Anders Darander wrote:
> * Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net> [110822 23:01]:
> > Op 17 aug. 2011, om 20:37 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven:
> > > +	cp -n ${COREBASE}/meta/files/deploydir_readme.txt ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/README_-_DO_NOT_DELETE_FILES_IN_THIS_DIRECTORY.txt
> > > +
> 
> > That doesn't work on my debian box:
> 
> > | + cp -n /OE/tentacle/sources/openembedded-core/meta/files/deploydir_readme.txt /OE/tentacle/build/tmp-angstrom_2010_x-eglibc/deploy/images/beagleboard/README_-_DO_NOT_DELETE_FILES_IN_THIS_DIRECTORY.txt
> > | cp: invalid option -- 'n'
> > | Try `cp --help' for more information.
> 
> Which debian version are you running?
> 
> I've seen no problem, as far as I can tell, on neither my ubuntu, nor my
> debian box. (Although I'm running debian sid on that one).

Irrespective of whether it happens to work or not on some or other
distro, "cp -n" isn't POSIX and we shouldn't be relying on it.

I can't really see why the -n option is needed here anyway.  It looks to
me like it could just be removed with no ill effects.

p.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-23  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-17 18:37 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Couple of fixes to help new users Paul Eggleton
2011-08-17 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] image.bbclass, kernel.bbclass: create warning file about deleting deploydir files Paul Eggleton
2011-08-17 18:41   ` Phil Blundell
2011-08-19 10:27     ` Paul Eggleton
2011-08-23 19:08       ` Darren Hart
2011-08-23 20:07         ` Paul Eggleton
2011-08-23 21:39           ` Koen Kooi
2011-08-23 21:52             ` Paul Eggleton
2011-08-22 21:01   ` Koen Kooi
2011-08-23  6:44     ` Anders Darander
2011-08-23  8:33       ` Koen Kooi
2011-08-23  9:22       ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2011-08-23  9:32         ` Paul Eggleton
2011-08-23 10:37           ` Phil Blundell
2011-08-17 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] sanity.bbclass: add optional untested host distro warning Paul Eggleton
2011-08-23 15:14 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Couple of fixes to help new users Saul Wold

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