Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1 Severity: normal Hi!
It appears that the option -L (dereference symlinks in source) does not work when cp is asked to create a link. Thus, you'll get a hardlink to a symlink rather than to the real file -- and unless the symlink was absolute or we're copying to the same directory, it's quite useless now. Expected behaviour: "cp -Ll foo bar" should do "cp -l `readlink -f foo` bar", like regular cp -L does. cp -Ls exhibits the same problem, although symlinks to symlinks are not as bad since they continue to work (but it's still not what I asked for). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.11.2-13 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.98-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
