Bug 195961 - context is not transfered to existing files
Summary: context is not transfered to existing files
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: coreutils
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-06-19 22:52 UTC by James Antill
Modified: 2008-08-02 23:40 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: coreutils-5.96-1.2
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Last Closed: 2006-06-22 15:14:17 UTC
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Description James Antill 2006-06-19 22:52:33 UTC 
Description of problem:
 If you use cp -ac foo bar, then the context is not transfered to bar _if_ it
already exists. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

# rpm -q coreutils
coreutils-5.93-7.2

How reproducible:
 Always.

Additional info:
 The 5.96 version in CVS works.
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2006-06-22 11:20:18 UTC 
Current FC5 latest package for coreutils is coreutils-5.96-1.2.  Could you
re-test with that please?
Comment 2 James Antill 2006-06-22 15:13:05 UTC 
 Fixes it for me.
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