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 11:37:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1314095840.6733.334.camel@phil-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201108231032.19140.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 10:32 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 August 2011 10:22:12 Phil Blundell wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Sorry, I wasn't aware that it was a non-standard option. I'll post a new
> version with it removed.
Yeah, POSIX cp only understands quite a restricted set of options. It
supports -f, -i, -p, -R, plus -H, -L and -P in newer versions (and the
obsolescent -r). Anything beyond that is not guaranteed.
p.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-23 10:42 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
2011-08-23 9:32 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-08-23 10:37 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
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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