Help with copytree code

[Oliver Fromme]

Beech Rintoul wrote:
 > 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.

Why don't you simply do the chown+chmod on the source tree
instead of doing it afterwards on the target tree?
I think that would solve the problem.

By the way, cpio(1) does have the option -R to change
owner and/or group on the target files, so you don't need
to run chown(1) afterwards.  Unfortunately there doesn't
seem to be an option to set the permission modes, though.

Finally, I recommend you use the "-print0" option of find
and the -0 option of cpio, so it will also work if there
are any file names that contain spaces or other special
characters.

Best regards
   Oliver

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