[Buildroot] [PATCH 10/13] Add update-all-config target

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Sat Oct 20 16:52:33 UTC 2012


On 20/10/12 18:47, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>> - forced copy
>
>   Ah, except that cp -f doesn't mean forced copy; it means: remove an
> already existing file before the copy. That means that permissions are
> lost and if it's a symlink, it's not the file it points to that gets
> updated. So I think cp -f is _not_ what we want here...

  Wrong again, Arnout :-(  The -f only removes the symlink it the file
couldn't be written to in the first place, so it's OK to have it.

  Regards,
  Arnout
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