Help with copytree code

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Mon May 19 08:53:28 UTC 2008


On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Beech Rintoul <beech at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 18 May 2008, Beech Rintoul said:
> > This copytree code is from bsd.port.mk, and I've been asked to try
> > and find a fix. This is very handy for installing a whole tree
> > (like a web app) keeping everything intact. It wasn't designed to
> > copy to a populated directory so it affects everything in that dir,
> > not just what's being installed. We need to keep it's
> > functionality, but a fix is more than I can come up with. So I
> > thought I'd ask you code gurus to help. If this can be fixed many
> > will thank you!
> >
> > I attached it so it won't get line wrapped.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Beech
>
> Looks like it got stripped off, so I posted it here:
>
> http://www.alaskaparadise.com/freebsd/copytree_code


What file patterns are you trying to copy over and what are you trying to
avoid copying over?
-Garrett


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