Date: Tue, 4 Apr 95 18:24:16 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: new install(1) utility Message-ID: <9504050024.AA23499@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504042320.RAA07950@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 4, 95 05:20:30 pm
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> > Serves you right for using the install utility to do the install > > instead of using "cp -p". > > Ahh, and the overhead of calling chown, chgrp, and chmod is much better? > 'I don't think so'. Since "cp -p" preserves this information, you are saying that the copy in the source tree has the incorrect owner, group, and permissions. This is something which should be corrected in the source tree. Doing the correction post-facto elsewhere is bogus. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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