Re: Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On 12 Dec 1997, James Troup wrote:

> Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:
> 
> > But consider the recent discussion of porting dpkg to other systems.
> > If you were using dpkg on Solaris or HP-UX or ... you may not be
> > able to count on cp understanding the -a flag.
> 
> Fooblah.  Debian is about systems integration; GNU fileutils is an
> Essential part of that system.  Do you want to ban the use of install
> -p, features of GNU Make, $() in shell scripts etc.?  debian/rules not
> only can but should assume it's running on a Debian system.

Completely agreed. After all, we are working on an operating system (I
don't like the term "distribution" too much) and _not_ on a set of
packages which should compile on _any_ UNIX. 


Thanks,

Chris

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