Hello DustDFG,
El 2022-02-06 15:05, Dust DFG escribió:
I saw that many of dragora recipes use the "cp -p" command. I want to
ask
you why you don't use the mv command. Cp command waste time and disk
resource. When source directory of package and package-$pkgname
directories
are in the one filesystem and one physical disk(most cases), mv
command
just moves the file (It is cheap). When those directories aren't near,
mv
command is similar to cp. I think mv should be preferred.
The "cp -p" command is in various parts of a recipe in order to copy
local files that are located in the working directory, such as a
configuration file, a configuration for a daemon, etc. Mostly it is
used to copy documentation from a source and insert it preserving the
timestamp in the documentation directory for a package.
Moving the files instead of copying them would not be ideal, since it
would disarrange the git aggregate files, also if you move the
documentation files from a source, they would no longer be there when
you want to preserve the source at build time (qi -k recipe).
For example, a recipe for the package buildtree-generic that copies a
folder with kernel
sources and binaries and then removes the original folder. It isn't
quick
but it is very expensive because a computer wastes time and disk
resources.
For this particular case, yes, it may be useful and save resources
instead of copying the kernel source directory...