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-rw-r--r--Porting/add-package.pl4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/add-package.pl b/Porting/add-package.pl
index ba0dbfa09a..ded907dd41 100644
--- a/Porting/add-package.pl
+++ b/Porting/add-package.pl
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ if ( $NoBranch ) {
my $RepoCopy = "$Repo-$BranchName";
print "Copying repository to $RepoCopy ..." if $Verbose;
- system( "cp --archive -f $Repo $RepoCopy" )
+ ### --archive == -dPpR, but --archive is not portable, and neither
+ ### is -d, so settling for -PpR
+ system( "cp -PpR -f $Repo $RepoCopy" )
and die "Copying master repo to $RepoCopy failed: $?";
### Going forward, use the copy in place of the original repo