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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Subject: Re: bin/2040: make world fails after cp -pR of /usr/bin
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> >	cp -pR breaks hard links, (chpass, chfn, chsh, ypchpass, ypchfn and
> >ypchsh become 6 differents programs). 
> 
> Use tar or cpio for coping, e.g.: 
> 	$ tar cf - /usr/bin | (cd /backup; tar xf -)

tar and cpio and pax don't preserve the immutable flags, so this breaks
things in a different way.

Bruce