[arch-general] mkinitcpio

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net> wrote:
>
> cp: warning: source file
> `/lib/modules/3.2.9-1-ARCH/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko.gz' specified more
> than once
>
> What causes this warning? Does it need to be fixed? Is the error
> something I've done or is it in the hooks from mkinitcpio?
>
> I apologize for seeming terse, but the thread seems to have veered off
> topic just a bit.

it's harmless:

# touch a b; mkdir c; cp a a b c/
cp: warning: source file `a' specified more than once

# ls -1 c/
a
b

... mkinitcpio prob just needs to sort+filter dupes.

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C Anthony