Re: [aur-general] "install" recursive?

Copying entire directory structures is the unusual case. It's always preferrable that upstream provide some sort of sane build system that gets all the permissioning correct. I would suggest using:

cp -dr --no-preserve=ownership

This way, fakeroot installs the files as root but preserves other metadata.

In order to preserve mode and timestamps, the command has to be either: cp -dpr --no-preserve=ownership /sourcedir /targetdir or: cp -dr --preserve=mode,timestamp /sourcedir /targetdir Cheers, Christoph