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NiLuJe · 05-02-2016, 09:44 PM

Huh. Why would a cp -af call refuse to overwrite something (the f stands for 'force', after all...)?!

What fresh hell did Amazon do to their busybox build...

And the (highly unlikely, in this instance) case where one tries to copy a directory over a similarly named file throws a different error:
cp: target '../mnt/us/./linkss' is not a directory

I'm on 5.7.3, so I guess I'll try to update to 5.7.4.whatever to see how that fares...

@rogerinnyc: Until I can figure that out, one obvious workaround would be to uninstall the hack first (after flagging it for complete uninstall in KUAL).

05-02-2016, 09:44 PM	#1970
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Huh. Why would a cp -af call refuse to overwrite something (the f stands for 'force', after all...)?! What fresh hell did Amazon do to their busybox build... And the (highly unlikely, in this instance) case where one tries to copy a directory over a similarly named file throws a different error: cp: target '../mnt/us/./linkss' is not a directory I'm on 5.7.3, so I guess I'll try to update to 5.7.4.whatever to see how that fares... @rogerinnyc: Until I can figure that out, one obvious workaround would be to uninstall the hack first (after flagging it for complete uninstall in KUAL). Last edited by NiLuJe; 05-02-2016 at 09:52 PM.