Package: cowdancer Version: 0.88 Severity: important Hi all,
we use cow-shell on our server to build update and test the TeX Live network distribution on a daily basis, but be aware, this is not Debian but CentOS. But since cow-shell is useful outside Debian, too, and upstream seems to be Debian now, I report this error here. We have moved recently to a new server (hardware) while the software stack hasn't changed. But we are seeing the following in our setup: When the rebuild and test of TL fails, the cow-shell is exited and we do not publish the changes, and the source directory should not be changed. But we see changes in the source directory! Basically what we do mkdir target for i in source/* ; do cp -al $i target done cow-shell <<EOF # do lots of things, updates, tests # if it fails exit 1 EOF Unfortunately, at this point files have changed in "source". I have tried to reproduce this with a small example, unsuccessfully. OTOH, we can reproduce it with the full TeX Live tlnet directory (about 5Gb). Is there any way how to debug/test/fix this? All the best Norbert -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-rc6+ (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cowdancer depends on: ii libc6 2.30-8 ii libncurses6 6.2-1 ii libtinfo6 6.2-1 cowdancer recommends no packages. cowdancer suggests no packages. -- no debconf information