[Buildroot] [PATCH] Makefile: change rsync used in overlays to always transfer files

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at sunsite.dk
Tue Feb 4 16:31:57 UTC 2014


On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Danomi Manchego
<danomimanchego123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If two files with the same relative paths exist in multiple overlay
> skeletons, and they have the same modification time and size, then rsync
> might not copy the later file on top of the earlier file.  This patch fixes
> this by adding the -I option to the rsync commands used in the overlay
> skeleton file installations.  ("man rsync" indicates that this option turns
> off the file-size/mod-date "quick check" behavior, causing all files to be
> updated - more like the cp commands that we had originally.)
>
> Signed-off-by: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123 at gmail.com>

Committed with -I changed to --ignore-times as it is a bit more
obvious what the option does.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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