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Re: Interested in helping open source friends on HP-UX?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 18, 2015, 18:25 UTC
Message-ID
<20150218182547.GA6346@peff.net>
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<54E4CFDC.40401@drmicha.warpmail.net>
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 06:46:04PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
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> >> H. Merijn Brand runs a few HP-UX boxes to help perl5 and other open
> >> source communities, wants help porting more recent Git on these
> >> boxes, running HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, and 11.23, and looking for a
> >> volunteer.  Please contact him directly if you are interested.
> > 
> > No-one. Disappointing :(
> 
> Well, how can we help if we don't even know the limitations of that
> platform?

I'm not sure, but I think the original call for help may have been "I will give you shell access to these boxes if you want to play around".

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> > t/t7001-mv.t
> > ------------
> > cp uses -P flag, which is unknown to HP's (non-GNU) version of cp
> > 
> > Changing the two occurrences from
> > 
> > 		cp -R -P -p ../.git/modules/sub .git &&
> > to
> > 		rsync -aHl ../.git/modules/sub/ .git/ &&
> > 
> > make the tests pass (on those systems that have a working rsync)
> 
> "rsync -r -l -o -p -t" would be the proper equivalent. -aH does more for
> my rsync. I don't know what HP-UX rsync understands, though.
It seems like we could use
  (cd src && tar cf - .) | (cd dst && tar xf -)

here as a more portable alternative. I don't think we can rely on rsync being everywhere.

-Peff
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  1. Junio C HamanoDec 11, 2014
  2. H.Merijn BrandFeb 18, 2015
  3. Michael J GruberFeb 18, 2015
  4. Jeff KingFeb 18, 2015
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2015
  6. Jeff KingFeb 18, 2015
  7. Michael J GruberFeb 19, 2015
  8. H.Merijn BrandFeb 19, 2015
  9. Michael J GruberFeb 19, 2015
  10. Jeff KingFeb 19, 2015
  11. Michael J GruberFeb 19, 2015
  12. H.Merijn BrandFeb 19, 2015
  13. Michael J GruberMar 3, 2015
  14. H.Merijn BrandMar 3, 2015
  15. Michael J GruberMar 3, 2015
  16. H.Merijn BrandMar 3, 2015
  17. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2015
  18. Michael J GruberFeb 20, 2015
  19. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2015
  20. H.Merijn BrandFeb 20, 2015
  21. H.Merijn BrandFeb 18, 2015
  22. H.Merijn BrandFeb 18, 2015
  23. David AguilarFeb 21, 2015

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