Changeset 9977b8f

Timestamp:

04/06/2024 09:39:05 AM (3 weeks ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

trunk, xry111/loongarch

Children:

2f115238

Parents:

91cf4953

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (04/06/2024 09:38:09 AM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (04/06/2024 09:39:05 AM)

Message:

generalinstructions: Remove a false statement about "cp -R destroys symlink"

It's just wrong (at least with all recent Coreutils releases).

Note that hard links are really destroyed, but AFAIK tar does not keep
hard links correctly anyway and destroying hard links won't cause
packages fail to build at all.

File:

• part3intro/generalinstructions.xml (modified) (1 diff)

part3intro/generalinstructions.xml

@@ -115 +115 @@
               to extract the source code. Notably, using the <command>cp -R</command>
               command to copy the
-              source code tree somewhere else can destroy links and
+              source code tree somewhere else can destroy
               timestamps in the source tree, and cause the build to fail.</para>
             </listitem>