Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#47556 new defect

coreutils @8.23_1 Calling gcp -al fails on symbolic links

Reported by: thomas.baigneres@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.3.3
Keywords: Cc: kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)
Port: coreutils

Description

OS X 10.10.3

Xcode Version 6.3.1 (6D1002)

Consider the following directory hierarchy:

$ ls -lR
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  4 tbaigner  group  136 Apr 24 13:51 source

./source:
total 16
-rw-r--r--  1 tbaigner  group  0 Apr 24 13:50 file.txt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 tbaigner  group  8 Apr 24 13:51 symbolic-link-to-file -> file.txt

Trying to copy the source directory with the options -a (archive) and -l (hard link files instead of copying) fails when using the @8.23_1 version of coreutils:

$ gcp -al source destination
gcp: cannot create hard link 'destination/symbolic-link-to-file' to 'source/symbolic-link-to-file': Operation not supported

Trying to do the same with the @8.22_0 version of coreutils works as expected :

$ sudo port activate coreutils @8.22_0
$ gcp -al source destination
$ ls -lR
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  4 user  group  136 Apr 24 13:51 destination
drwxr-xr-x  4 user  group  136 Apr 24 13:51 source

./destination:
total 16
-rw-r--r--  2 user  group  0 Apr 24 13:50 file.txt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 user  group  8 Apr 24 13:51 symbolic-link-to-file -> file.txt

./source:
total 16
-rw-r--r--  2 user  group  0 Apr 24 13:50 file.txt
lrwxr-xr-x  1 user  group  8 Apr 24 13:51 symbolic-link-to-file -> file.txt

Searching the internet suggests that the culprit might be the linkat() function, which exists but does not work as expected by coreutils.

Change History (5)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

This doesn't sound like a MacPorts-specific problem. You should report it to the developers of coreutils so that they can fix it and release a new version. When they do, we'll update the port in MacPorts.

comment:2 in reply to:  1 Changed 10 years ago by thomas.baigneres@…

Replying to ryandesign@…:

This doesn't sound like a MacPorts-specific problem. You should report it to the developers of coreutils so that they can fix it and release a new version. When they do, we'll update the port in MacPorts.

Ok, sorry for posting at the wrong place. I just reported this issue to developers of coreutils.

comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)

Cc: khindenburg@… added

Cc Me!

comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)

comment:5 in reply to:  4 Changed 9 years ago by thomas.baigneres@…

Replying to khindenburg@…:

fyi https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20438

Thanks ! But I knew that bug report. I wrote it myself ;-)

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