Re: [Ltib] deployment problem with empty directories

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Peter.

I think you're suffering from not updating your BSP again.  The current
sources use this:

cd $rootfs
find . -perm -444 ! -type b ! -type c -print0 | cpio -p0d --quiet $stage

Regards, Stuart

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 15:21 -0500, Peter Barada wrote:
> 
> I'm using ifup/down to bring up/down the ethernet interface, and when
> I run with NFS as a rootfs, everything works fine.
> 
> When I run with a ramdisk as the rootfs, it complains
> that /etc/network.if-up.d doesn't exist.
> On my rootfs /etc/network/if-up.d is an empty directory.  Looking in
> bin/Ltibutils.pm, I see in the section after the comment "copy the
> rootfs direcotry tree to the staging area":
> 
>     $cmd = "cp -a rootfs/$l1 $stage/";
> 
> Unfortunately this doesn't copy over empty directories in the
> rootfs(at least on my Fedora Core 6 machine).  I think it does for the
> 'dev' directory using mkdir, but as I'm not that familiar with Perl,
> my eys glaze over a bit...
> 
> Would adding "mkdir "$stage/$l1"; before the cp fix this, or is there
> a better fix?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> -- 
> Peter Barada <address@hidden>