Bug 803356 - Behavior of "cp --backup" changed, not backing up individual files
Summary: Behavior of "cp --backup" changed, not backing up individual files
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: coreutils
Version: 5.7
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
urgent
high
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Depends On: 801873
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-14 14:23 UTC by RHEL Program Management
Modified: 2018-11-29 21:22 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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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.
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Last Closed: 2012-03-21 12:02:12 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 852589 1 None None None 2021-01-20 06:05:38 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2012:0408 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE coreutils bug fix update 2012-03-21 16:00:34 UTC

Internal Links: 852589

Description RHEL Program Management 2012-03-14 14:23:35 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #801873 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 8 Miroslav Svoboda 2012-03-15 16:23:49 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.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2012-03-21 12:02:12 UTC
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


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