[22007] portutil.tcl mods / more portfile.7 changes needed?

[Kevin Ballard]

I will point out that if xinstall copies directories, that raises the  
question of how to apply mode and owner/groups to the installed  
directories. owner/group should be safe to recurse, but mode wouldn't  
be.

On Feb 14, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> On Feb 13, 2007, at 11:19 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>
>> xinstall and file copy are different - xinstall is implemented in  
>> pextlib, and apparently doesn't recursively copy directories. It's  
>> a shame.
>>
>> So yeah, while xinstall won't handle directories, copy will do it  
>> just fine. The difference is that copy won't handle file  
>> permissions, but xinstall does.
>
> I was trying to copy the semantics of install(1) in order to obey  
> what seemed to be the principle of least astonishment.   That said,  
> I'm having a hard time thinking of just how and where the world  
> would end if someone were to enhance it to actually copy  
> directories.  I was probably being too conservative.

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Kevin Ballard
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