Re: Mv/rm bugs was ->(Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes)

2003-11-14 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Max Horn wrote: Am Freitag, 14.11.03 um 14:53 Uhr schrieb Darian Lanx: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 David R. Morrison wrote: I was looking at this last night, as Benjamin already posted our conversation I can only add t

Re: Mv/rm bugs was ->(Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes)

2003-11-14 Thread Max Horn
Am Freitag, 14.11.03 um 14:53 Uhr schrieb Darian Lanx: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 David R. Morrison wrote: I was looking at this last night, as Benjamin already posted our conversation I can only add this: The bug is definately fixed in coreutil 0.5.91 ... which is an

Mv/rm bugs was ->(Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes)

2003-11-14 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 David R. Morrison wrote: I was looking at this last night, as Benjamin already posted our conversation I can only add this: The bug is definately fixed in coreutil 0.5.91 Now the Apple supplied /bin/rm or /bin/mv do call the faulty implemen

Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes

2003-11-14 Thread David R. Morrison
> There is a theory now that this comes from the Fink fileutils package, > although I don't see how it can, since you were using /bin/mv. To echo this concern: I experienced the "mv" bug last night on a package. I removed fileutils and rebuilt the package. It still failed due to the "mv" bug, eve

Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes

2003-11-14 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Martin Costabel wrote: > I really want to believe it, but I still don't see the mechanism by > which it can have this effect for some people and not for others (with > apparently exactly the same system). It is /bin/mv that is the problem, a user on irc reported that installing fink's fileutils pac

Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes

2003-11-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: But do you also have a reproducible case for mv? I don't find one. Actually, I can't even reproduce the rm case (OSX 10.3.1) costabel% tar zxf X11ForMacOSXSource-wwdc.tar.gz costabel% /bin/rm -rf X11ForMacOSXSource-wwdc costabel% as in that irc conversation, panther's built-

Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes

2003-11-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Benjamin Reed wrote: [] The test case that I could reproduce 100% with was: tar -xjf /sw/src/X430.tar.bz2 rm -rf xc But do you also have a reproducible case for mv? I don't find one. Actually, I can't even reproduce the rm case (OSX 10.3.1) costabel% tar zxf X11ForMacOSXSource-wwdc.tar.gz costabel

Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes

2003-11-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: But the trailing slash problem must have a different cause. I am still unable to reproduce it, although I tried with all kinds of Fink versions of fileutils. It must be something in the environment. But I don't know where to look. The test case that I could reproduce 100%

Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes

2003-11-14 Thread Martin Costabel
James Gibbs wrote: [] Martin, I don't have fileutils installed. I don't know what the coreutils package is, nor do I find it anywhere. coreutils is in 10.3/unstable now, replaces fileutils, textutils, and shellutils. You don't really need it, it just replaces a bunch of OSX Unix commands by thei

Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes

2003-11-14 Thread James Gibbs
On Nov 14, 2003, at 3:15 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: James Gibbs wrote: [] jgibbs% mkdir /dir1 jgibbs% mkdir /dir2 jgibbs% /bin/mv /dir1/ /dir2/ mv: rename /dir1/ to /dir2/dir1/: No such file or directory jgibbs% which mv /bin/mv There is a theory now that this comes from the Fink fileutils package

Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes

2003-11-14 Thread Martin Costabel
James Gibbs wrote: [] jgibbs% mkdir /dir1 jgibbs% mkdir /dir2 jgibbs% /bin/mv /dir1/ /dir2/ mv: rename /dir1/ to /dir2/dir1/: No such file or directory jgibbs% which mv /bin/mv There is a theory now that this comes from the Fink fileutils package, although I don't see how it can, since you were us

Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes

2003-11-12 Thread James Gibbs
On Nov 12, 2003, at 7:05 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: James Gibbs wrote: [] jgibbs% mkdir /dir1 jgibbs% mkdir /dir2 jgibbs% mv /dir1/ /dir2/ mv: rename /dir1/ to /dir2/dir1/: No such file or directory OK, this is the first time I see this black on white. I think we should be able get to the cause

Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes

2003-11-12 Thread Martin Costabel
James Gibbs wrote: [] jgibbs% mkdir /dir1 jgibbs% mkdir /dir2 jgibbs% mv /dir1/ /dir2/ mv: rename /dir1/ to /dir2/dir1/: No such file or directory OK, this is the first time I see this black on white. I think we should be able get to the cause of this. I don't see it (also 10.3 with tcsh): costab

[Fink-devel] trailing slashes

2003-11-12 Thread James Gibbs
On Nov 11, 2003, at 9:06 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Problems with mv and trailing slashes. There were reports that during package installation, some mv commands of directories failed. One idea was that mv was allergic against trailing slashes, as this had been the case with Apple's mv and rm in