Hi, At Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:21:41 -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Akinori MUSHA said: > > Hi, > > > > What about adding COPYTREE_AUTO defined as below? > > > > You often need some scripts in an example directory to have > > executable bits so that the examples actually work, and it is waste > > of time to sort files out into COPYTREE_BIN and COPYTREE_SHARE when > > they already have proper bits out of the tarball. (snip) > I'm working on this with portmgr. The first step is to fix copytree. > If you try and use copytree_bin you will end up hosing > your /usr/local/bin dir. I have already submitted some fixed code and
Indeed. The find $target -exec chmod .. part is extremely dangerous and that's why I was only using copytree macros for installing examples and documents. > was planning on adding copytree_www, so adding copytree_auto won't be > a big problem. This is all strictly portmgr territory, so it's up to > whatever they decide. I can wait until the copytree stuff are properly reimplemented. No problem. I just put COPYTREE_AUTO in databases/mysql-q4m for my own purpose and am still looking around to see how other people do to install many files. Regards, -- Akinori MUSHA / http://akinori.org/
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