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Full text available.Received: (at 17138) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Mar 2014 04:07:28 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Mon Mar 31 00:07:28 2014 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57510 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1WUTVQ-0004Nm-CL for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:07:28 -0400 Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org ([173.164.175.65]:39056) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <coreutils@HIDDEN>) id 1WUTVN-0004Nb-Vd for 17138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:07:27 -0400 Received: from [192.168.4.12] (Athenae [192.168.4.12]) by Ishtar.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id s2V47J6D095849 for <17138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 21:07:22 -0700 Message-ID: <5338E9F6.9050300@HIDDEN> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 21:07:18 -0700 From: Linda Walsh <coreutils@HIDDEN> User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 17138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#17138: how to respect target symlinks w/cp? problem? References: <533629B3.7020005@HIDDEN> In-Reply-To: <533629B3.7020005@HIDDEN> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 17138 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) Is some server bottled up somewhere? this bug was the last one I saw come through... Linda Walsh wrote: > I was wanting to copy a source tree > to a target where the target had some symlink'd dirs.. > > > /arch64/> \cp -r usr/. ../usr/. > cp: cannot overwrite non-directory `../usr/././share' with directory > `usr/./share' > > I have a setup on a bi-arch machine > where /usr/share under each 'arch' points to a common > /common/share/... I see options in the manpage for > having cp respect the SOURCE symlinks, but > see no option to have it respect symlinks in the target. > > Note: If I wanted the target's symlinks to be overwritten > or ignored, I would use "cp -fa" that would overwrite > the symlinks (I think) and create them as directories, > but barring "a", why doesn't it just follow the path? > > The purpose of symlinks was to allow seamless redirection, > but now more utils seem to be ignoring that usage just > like on a security level group access is being increasingly > ignored. > > tar just overwrites the symlink with the dir w/o warning... > > > > >
bug-coreutils@HIDDEN:bug#17138; Package coreutils.
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Linda Walsh <coreutils@HIDDEN>:bug-coreutils@HIDDEN.
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