comment_18_64fab50d95de619eb2e8f08f90237d

[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkSq2FDpK2n66QRUxtqqdbyDuwgbQmUWus"
 nickname="Jimmy"
 subject="maybe killed another osx bug in the test."
 date="2011-02-13T15:12:10Z"
 content="""
I think I have figured out why 

    ### Failure in: 1:blackbox:3:git-annex unannex:1:with content
    foo is not a symlink

It goes back to the this piece of code (in test.hs)

    copyrepo :: FilePath -> FilePath -> IO FilePath
    copyrepo old new = do
            cleanup new
            ensuretmpdir
            Utility.boolSystem \"cp\" [\"-pr\", old, new] @? \"cp -pr failed\"

It seems that on OSX it does not preserve the symbolic link information, basically cp is not gnu cp on OSX, doing a \"cp -a SOURCE DEST\" seem's to the right thing on OSX. I tried it out on my archlinux workstation by replacing *-pr* with just *-a* and all the tests passed on archlinux.

I'm not sure what the implications would be with changing the test with changing the cp command.

"""]]