Re: Install /usr/bin/something from upstream source to /usr/bin/something on hdd?

[Patrick Schleizer <adrelanos@riseup.net>]

Andrey Rahmatullin:
>> For the following make snippet, I need a replacement not using rsync.
>>
>> install:
>> 	rsync \
>> 		-C \
>> 		--verbose \
>> 		--recursive \
>> 		--links \
>> 		--perms \
>> 		--times \
>> 		--exclude Makefile \
>> 		--exclude man-helper.bsh \
>> 		--exclude man \
>> 		--exclude debian \
>> 		--exclude t \
>> 		--exclude .gitignore \
>> 		--exclude .gitattributes \
>> 		--exclude COPYING \
>> 		--exclude GPLv3 \
>> 		--exclude build \
>> 		--exclude clean \
>> 		--exclude CONTRIBUTING.md \
>> 		$(CURDIR)/ \
>> 		$(DESTDIR)/
>>
>> Ideally without inventing a big new shell script. Any idea?
> A set of mkdir, cp and/or install commands.

I like to make it generic, so I don't have to list individual files in
the Makefile. That causes less overhead for packaging if file names are
changed/added/etc. (They probably won't be changed a lot, but I am going
to package lots of shell scripts I've written over two years, so I like
to have a template, that requires little changes.)

Rsync dependency has been removed.

The Makefile for "make install" now calls a small script called
install-helper.bsh, that essentially does:

find \
   . \
   -not -type d \
   -not -path './Makefile' \
   ... \
   -not -path './CONTRIBUTING.md' \
   -exec echo "cp --parents '{}' $DESTDIR/" \; \
   -exec cp --parents '{}' "$DESTDIR/" \;

Does that sound acceptable?