wget postinstall and setup

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:31:01PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>The wget postinstall is doing a cp.  As discussed earlier, a cp does
>not preserve the ACL and any cp done in a postinstall script must be
>accompanied by a "touch" to create the new file before copying unto it
>(see e.g.  as in man.sh), or a "chmod" to set reasonable permissions
>after the copying (e.g.  as in openldap.sh).  If that's not done, the
>user may end up having unreadable files.  Sorry I didn't notice that
>earlier.

Wouldt "cp -p" not do the right thing in this case?

cgf