Bug 785952

Description of problem:
F16/Chown command when used together with options -v and --from= prints out incorrect information on retained owner and group for targets left untouched due to not matching arguments of --from: it prints out the owner:group you tried to change to instead of the actual retained owner and group. bug-coreutils confirmed that this does not occur on stock GNU/coreutils - at least as of coreutils-8.15. They also confirmed F16/coreutils-8.12-2 was affected.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-8.12-2.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.sudo su -
2.mkdir test
3.chown 500:500 test
4.chown -v --from=600:600 1000:1000 test

Actual results:

Any object not matched with --from= produces output like:
ownership of `test' retained as 1000:1000

Expected results:
printout: ownership of `test' retained as 500:500

Additional info:

The non-matched objects do retain their original owner and group.

The output is the same for non-root users as well. The problem only seems to lie in the verbose printout of chown: the actual owner change itself as well as the --from matching would appear to be unaffected (haven't tested extensively though). The incorrect verbose output can, nonetheless, be quite confusing if the verbose output is actually used for something, like verifying operation of "chown -R" on large batch on files for instance.