| Summary: | Behavior of "cp --backup" changed, not backing up individual files | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> |
| Component: | coreutils | Assignee: | Ondrej Vasik <ovasik> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 5.7 | CC: | asersen, azelinka, cale, cww, lmiksik, mdarade, meyering, msvoboda, ovasik, pm-eus, prc, psingare, taviss |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Patch, Regression, ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
An incomplete fix for behavior of the "mv --backup" command, that was released with the RHBA-2011:1074 errata advisory, caused the "cp --backup" command to work incorrectly. When used with a directory as a source argument, the "cp --backup" command did not backup individual files within the directory but whole directory. This update corrects this problem and the "--backup" feature of the "cp" utility now works as intended again.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-03-21 12:02:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Bug Depends On: | 801873 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2012-03-14 14:23:35 UTC
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An incomplete fix for behavior of the "mv --backup" command, that was released with the RHBA-2011:1074 errata advisory, caused the "cp --backup" command to work incorrectly. When used with a directory as a source argument, the "cp --backup" command did not backup individual files within the directory but whole directory. This update corrects this problem and the "--backup" feature of the "cp" utility now works as intended again.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0408.html |