> If you haven't used UNPRIVED, use pax to copy:
> 	cd $DESTDIR
> 	pax -rwvpe . /

It is quite the same as a DESTDIR=/ build for my setup.

1) My /home is an amd automount point.  pax tries to frob the
   directory perms for /home, barfs and exits.

2) My /usr/local is a symlink to /u/local and pax blows the symlink
   away and installs an empty directory tree.  (Note: there is nothing
   that will wake you up as quickly as doing an "ls /usr/local/bin/"
   after an "upgrade" and seeing that it is now empty! ;-) Luckily
   only the symlink, not the underlying files got whacked.)

I think I'd by happier if the pax copy only copied the files and the
symlinks and left everything else alone.

-wolfgang
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