Re: [22007] portutil.tcl mods / more portfile.7 changes needed?
I will point out that if xinstall copies directories, that raises the question of how to apply mode and owner/groups to the installed directories. owner/group should be safe to recurse, but mode wouldn't be. On Feb 14, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On Feb 13, 2007, at 11:19 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
xinstall and file copy are different - xinstall is implemented in pextlib, and apparently doesn't recursively copy directories. It's a shame.
So yeah, while xinstall won't handle directories, copy will do it just fine. The difference is that copy won't handle file permissions, but xinstall does.
I was trying to copy the semantics of install(1) in order to obey what seemed to be the principle of least astonishment. That said, I'm having a hard time thinking of just how and where the world would end if someone were to enhance it to actually copy directories. I was probably being too conservative.
-- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org eridius@macports.org http://www.tildesoft.com
You'd have to have a separate mode flag that would apply just to directories. A permission of 0755, for example, would be perfectly valid for an entire hierarchy of directories. - Jordan On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:39 AM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
I will point out that if xinstall copies directories, that raises the question of how to apply mode and owner/groups to the installed directories. owner/group should be safe to recurse, but mode wouldn't be.
On Feb 14, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On Feb 13, 2007, at 11:19 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
xinstall and file copy are different - xinstall is implemented in pextlib, and apparently doesn't recursively copy directories. It's a shame.
So yeah, while xinstall won't handle directories, copy will do it just fine. The difference is that copy won't handle file permissions, but xinstall does.
I was trying to copy the semantics of install(1) in order to obey what seemed to be the principle of least astonishment. That said, I'm having a hard time thinking of just how and where the world would end if someone were to enhance it to actually copy directories. I was probably being too conservative.
-- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org eridius@macports.org http://www.tildesoft.com
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