Re: [PATCH] Don't use cpio in git-clone when not installed

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 1, 2007, 01:00 UTC
Message-ID: <fgb8b6$hqo$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710311742170.3342@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> 
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
>> +    if type cpio > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>> +            local=yes
>> +    fi
> 
> Isn't "type" a bashism?
> 
> Maybe just do
> 
>       if echo . | cpio -o > /dev/null 2>&1; then
> 
> instead? Maybe even doing this at install time to avoid the overhead of 
> executing another process..

Or perhaps trap / check actual execution of cpio in git-clone, and fallback to ln -s / link if it fails...

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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