cpio -l fails to revert to copy-mode
Tim Kientzle
kientzle at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 20 04:59:57 UTC 2008
Pietro Cerutti wrote:
>
> ~> cpio -dumpl /tmp/
> test
> cpio: Can't create '/tmp/test': Cross-device link: Cross-device link
>
> while
>
> | gcpio -dumpl /tmp/
> test
> gcpio: /tmp: Operation not permitted
> gcpio: cannot link test to /tmp//test (will copy instead): Cross-device
> link
>
> The set of ${COPYTREE_*} "macros" in the ports infrastructure depend on
> this feature, so I would rate this as "highly important"...
Thanks! I hadn't seen this usage before; I'll
get it fixed soon.
In the meantime, the obvious workaround is
to omit the -l flag.
Cheers,
Tim Kientzle
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