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	Dawe on Sat, 02 Mar 2002 17:19:21 +0000)
Subject:	Re: Two small patches for the ported Fileutils 4.0
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> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 17:19:21 +0000
> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> > 
> >   - ginstall would crash when invoked to install a file with no
> >     extension (such as a shell script);
> 
> Hmmm, that's pretty serious.

I wonder how come no one saw that before.  Are you guys even using
"make install"?  Or do we have too few packages which install shell
scripts?  (I saw this in Texinfo, which installs texi2dvi.)

> >   - "cp -Pp" would print an error message on filesystems that don't
> >     allow setting timestamps of directories.
> [snip]
> 
> Well, I had said I don't think we need to suppress this message. But since
> you've provided me with a patch and the current behaviour is inconsistent with
> other parts of the Fileutils ports, I'll apply it. ;)

If we want the warning to appear on W2K and XP, the suppression could
be conditioned on the OS version.

> Thanks for the patches. I'll try to get a new release out soon.

Thanks.

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