Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 18:41:36 -0700 (PDT) From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: nate@trout.sri.MT.net, kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: new install(1) utility Message-ID: <m0rwK6C-0003w9C@TFS.COM> In-Reply-To: <9504050024.AA23499@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 4, 95 06:24:16 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. well, not really, because you may wasnt to compile as 'terry' and just su to root for the install I tend to do it that way.. julian
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