[aur-general] "install" recursive?

Ray Rashif schiv at archlinux.org
Wed Nov 30 14:02:52 EST 2011


On 1 December 2011 01:25, Piotr Rogoża <rogoza.piotr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28.11.2011 21:38, Jonathan Steel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was told it was best practice to use "install" rather than "mkdir"
> > and "cp" in a PKGBUILD, but how can you copy a directory and its
> > contents (recursively) using "install"?
> >
> > If you cannot, with a folder with lots of files, is it best practice
> > to list every file to copy with "install", or use one command to "cp"
> > the whole folder?
>
> Hi,
>
> Maybe tar? E.g.:
> tar -c ./ | tar -x -C ${pkgdir}/...
>
> --
> Piotr Rogoża
>

I think this is where we say "enough" :)

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