Made a lot of progress on this. I'm about 90% done. It does - individual file copies - recursive directory copies - deletion of files or directories from the destination directory - specification of an alternate destination (for both file and dir copies) The only thing really left is globbing to allow wildcards. It is currently at buell.mcom.com:/builds/pkgcp.pl if you want to take a look, and I am waiting for a cvs account in order to check it in which should happen Tuesday. I'll also finish the wildcard feature as well. I've done a fair amount of testing and error checking, but will need some working package files to test against. Once it's all happy on Linux, I'll look to porting it to win32 and possibly Mac.

excellent. i have the power to issue you a cvs account, let me do that now.

My CVS account is up and running. leaf just walked me through checking in the file and it's in there: RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/xpinstall/packager/pkgcp.pl,v done Checking in pkgcp.pl; /cvsroot/mozilla/xpinstall/packager/pkgcp.pl,v <-- pkgcp.pl initial revision: 1.1 done Comments, copying individual files, redirecting individual files, and wildcards all work. Problem areas: - recursively copying and/or redirecting directories. - using a relative path for the dest dir (presently has to be an absolute path). Should have these problems sorted out later this week.

just noticed a bug: you need to maintain file permission flags when you move, so that if an item is marked executable, it maintains that flag. i think you can do this by setting umask(0);, but not sure.

unix copy now gets the permissions of the source file and sets the destination file the same. need to revisit central copy procedure to work better XP and improve the performance a bit.

still working on this. cleaning up the central do_copyfile routine. reducing recursion and improving performance.

many changes in my copy, waiting for leaf to complete his packages-win updates before checking in so I can test the new script on the new package.

worked w/jj on mac port. macperl doesn't like globbing, so checked in workaround so that any globbing to copy an entire directory (e.g. dir:dir:*) strips off the :* and does a copydir on dir:dir, and any other globbing it prints out a warning with a suggestion to copy the entire directory. This is good enough to use and create/maintain a packages-mac file. Will research the macperl globbing to see if we can find out how to get it to work. It appears to not like variables. So if I do a `glob *.pl` it finds all the .pl files, but if I pass it a var containing *.pl, it doesn't find anything...

not going to make M11.

this is basically done. got the feedback on the mac globbing, but might have to make do with what we have. closing.