svn commit: r243228 - head/etc

[John Hay]

Hi Chris,

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 02:21:05PM +0000, Chris Rees wrote:
> Author: crees (ports committer)
> Date: Sun Nov 18 14:21:05 2012
> New Revision: 243228
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/243228
> 
> Log:
>   cp -R misses out dotfiles; use pax instead to copy file hierarchies
>   
>   PR:		conf/99721 (based on)
>   Submitted by:	Florian Zavatzki <f_zavatzki at blue-network.org>
>   Approved by:	hrs
>   MFC after:	1 month
> 
> Modified:
>   head/etc/rc.initdiskless
> 
> Modified: head/etc/rc.initdiskless
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/etc/rc.initdiskless	Sun Nov 18 14:05:28 2012	(r243227)
> +++ head/etc/rc.initdiskless	Sun Nov 18 14:21:05 2012	(r243228)
> @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ for i in ${templates} ; do
>  	subdir=${j##*/}
>  	if [ -d $j -a ! -f $j.cpio.gz  ]; then
>  	    create_md $subdir
> -	    cp -Rp $j/ /$subdir
> +	    (cd $j && pax -rw . /$subdir)
>  	fi
>      done
>      for j in /conf/$i/*.cpio.gz ; do

Have you tested this on a diskless and readonly system? It looks like pax
need to write something in /tmp and it might not be writeable yet. I got
an error, after the first of /bin/pax not found and having to add that to
the list of files needed.

John
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John Hay -- jhay at meraka.csir.co.za / jhay at FreeBSD.org