new option --no-cow to make simple copy instead of hard-linked

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@55151 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlnet b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlnet
index f20e8135b65..8daf1ffa3c4 100755
--- a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlnet
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlnet
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ yyyy=2020
 
 check_consistency=true
 chicken=false
+cow_shell=cow-shell
 critical=
 pretest=false
 recreate=
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ while test $# -gt 0; do
   --gpgcmd)            shift; gpgcmd="--gpgcmd \"$1\"";;
   --master)            shift; Master=$1;;
   --no-consistency)    check_consistency=false;; # takes a long time.
+  --no-cow)            cow_shell=/bin/sh;;
   --no-install-pkg)    update_install_pkg=false;;# trunk update after freeze
   --no-testinstall|-N) testinstall=false;;       # and no updates; quit early.
   --pretest)           tlweb=/home/ftp/texlive/tlpretest;;
@@ -100,14 +102,17 @@ chgrp texlive $tltry || : # in case of strange system
 for f in $tlweb/*; do
   if echo "$f" | grep mactex >/dev/null; then
     : # skip mactex
-  else
+  elif test "x$cow_shell" = xcow-shell; then
     cp -al "$f" $tltry  # assume GNU cp so we can link instead of copy
+  else
+    # no cow-shell, straight copy, for testing.
+    cp -a "$f" $tltry   # still assuming GNU cp for -a
   fi
 done
 
 # Update packages in our working dir.
 # These shell assignments have to come outside the cow-shell.
-echo "$prg: Updating $tltry (from $Master) with cow-shell..."
+echo "$prg: Updating $tltry (from $Master) with $cow_shell..."
 containers_prog="$Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers"
 containers_args=" $verbose -location $tltry $critical $recreate $gpgcmd"
 containers_invoke="$containers_prog $containers_args"
@@ -116,7 +121,7 @@ update_install_prog=$Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-install-pkg
 update_install_invoke="$update_install_prog $gpgcmd -o $tltry"
 #
 cd $tltry
-cow-shell <<END_COW
+$cow_shell <<END_COW
 echo "$prg: Updating containers with (critical=$critical recreate=$recreate gpgcmd=$gpgcmd)"
 echo "$prg:   $containers_invoke"
 if $containers_invoke; then :; else