Bug#961391: cowdancer: hard links are not copied on write and are changed in the original location

2020-05-23 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Jessica, thanks for the quick response. > My initial suggestion would be to capture what system call is being > used using strace. Pick one of the files that changes, and run the Good idea indeed. We will try to reproduce the failure under strace, and hope to see something in the log.

Bug#961391: cowdancer: hard links are not copied on write and are changed in the original location

2020-05-23 Thread Jessica Clarke
On 24 May 2020, at 00:50, Norbert Preining wrote: > > 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

Bug#961391: cowdancer: hard links are not copied on write and are changed in the original location

2020-05-23 Thread Norbert Preining
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