[csw-maintainers] New pax replacement in place

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Maciej,

Am 18.04.2011 um 19:27 schrieb Maciej Bliziński:
> 2011/4/18 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
>> I just replaced in r14323 the old "pax" by a new "pcopy" which hopefully
>> has less bugs. It is a tiny rewrite by me in Perl. It should support
>> all used features we used from "pax".
> 
> I remember one of the bugs was losing the original file permissions
> under the influence of umask.  I had to add post-merge steps to revert
> permission bits to what I wanted.  Have you tested pcopy under this
> scenario?

Nope, but now that you mention it I remember there was a problem.
Do you know which Makefile is was so I can have a look?


Best regards

  -- Dago