Bug 167615 - Doesn't compress zero-sized files even with -f
Summary: Doesn't compress zero-sized files even with -f
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ncompress
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: ---
Assignee: Peter Vrabec
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard: RHEL4U3NAK
Depends On:
Blocks: 187538
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-06 10:40 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: RHBA-2006-0304
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-04-26 21:17:24 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
ncompress-4.2.4-zerobyteforce.patch (patch by sprabhu@redhat.com) (336 bytes, patch)
2005-09-06 10:40 UTC, Bastien Nocera
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Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2006:0304 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE ncompress bug fix update 2006-04-26 04:00:00 UTC

Description Bastien Nocera 2005-09-06 10:40:05 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #167614 +++

$ touch foo
$ compress -f foo
$ ls -l foo.Z
ls: foo.Z: No such file or directory
$ ls -l foo
0 -rw-r--r--  1 bnocera bnocera 0 Sep  6 11:31 foo

Patch attached below.

-- Additional comment from bnocera on 2005-09-06 06:38 EST --
Created an attachment (id=118490)
ncompress-4.2.4-zerobyteforce.patch (patch from sprabhu)

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2005-09-06 10:40:06 UTC
Created attachment 118491 [details]
ncompress-4.2.4-zerobyteforce.patch (patch by sprabhu)

Comment 9 David Lawrence 2006-04-18 14:41:55 UTC
PASSES_QA status has been deprecated in favor of VERIFIED. Changing status to
VERIFIED.

Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-04-26 21:17:25 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0304.html


Comment 12 Issue Tracker 2007-06-17 04:58:58 UTC
Internal Status set to 'Resolved'
Status set to: Closed by Tech
Resolution set to: 'RHEL 3.9'
Ticket type set to: 'Problem'

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