On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:43:07AM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > >>>> Sure, the effort required for that is minimal. (I managed to create a > >>>> non-Debian specific Makefile for "make install" that uses rsync. > >>>> Debhelper can pick it up from there just fine.) > >>> I don't think using rsync to copy files in the upstream Makefile is a good > >>> idea. > >> > >> Why is that? > > > > More external dependency, I guess. > > I see. > > Personally I don't mind if such as small and great tool as rsync needs > to be installed at package build time. Would it be a no-go for inclusion > into Debian or is this within the liberty of being upstream? I would be very surprised if some software required rsync to install a bunch of files locally.
> For the following make snippet, I need a replacement not using rsync. > > install: > rsync \ > -C \ > --verbose \ > --recursive \ > --links \ > --perms \ > --times \ > --exclude Makefile \ > --exclude man-helper.bsh \ > --exclude man \ > --exclude debian \ > --exclude t \ > --exclude .gitignore \ > --exclude .gitattributes \ > --exclude COPYING \ > --exclude GPLv3 \ > --exclude build \ > --exclude clean \ > --exclude CONTRIBUTING.md \ > $(CURDIR)/ \ > $(DESTDIR)/ > > Ideally without inventing a big new shell script. Any idea? A set of mkdir, cp and/or install commands. -- WBR, wRAR
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