Re: Simplist way to boot only to a shell

Yes, you are right.  I'm able to reproduce the problem
from cpio with this line:

/bin/sh -c "(cd $from; find -depth -print | cpio -pdum $to >
/tmp/base.log 2> /tmp/base.err)"

The version of cpio causing problems is 2.6.  If I change the
above command to use the cpio I have buried under
a KNOPPIX mastering area (which is cpio 2.5),
then the sym links are copied nicely.

There is an option -L for cpio that would cause no symlinks 
to be copied but the full files instead.  It seems as
if that is now assumed by cpio version 2.6 by default.

I tried adding the -l switch there to force it to use links.
That worked OK for a the command line above
run at a shell prompt, when copying bin from /opt area
to a /tmp/fun location.  When I make the same change
of adding (letter) -l switch to the cpio command in
PxesconfigModel.pm it doesn't solve the problem.
Now I get lots of errors like these:

cpio: cannot link ./bin/pmonitor to /tmp/pxes/./bin/pmonitor: Invalid
cross-device link
cpio: cannot link ./bin/esd to /tmp/pxes/./bin/esd: Invalid cross-device link

Likewise for --link option

Perhaps it could be rewritten with tar.  I gave it a try
but I found the checks of $tmpbase files were making
a lot of noise.  I'm not clear on what they are doing.

Here is my tar attempt:

$r = system("/bin/sh -c \"( (cd $from; tar -cf - * ) | ( cd $to ; tar
-xf - ) > $tmpbase.log 2> $tmpbase.err)\"");

I tried with and without the v to make it report information.
I think the checks following it need a change to work with tar.

We are getting close to the end of this...

--Donald Teed

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:27:35 -0300, Diego Torres Milano <[email protected]> wrote:
> Probably cpio is affected, or at least its command line.
> Find the cpio line in PxesconfigModel.pm, add some debug, print it, and
> reproduce it manually.


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