Bug 154122

Summary:	/bin/cp option "--preserve": wrong documentation and misbehaviour
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Wolfgang Schludi <schludi>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Andreas Schwab <schwab>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	schludi
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	SUSE Linux 10.1
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Other
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Description Wolfgang Schludi 2006-02-28 15:19:10 UTC

installed packages:
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- coreutils-5.3.0-20.2
- kernel-bigsmp-2.6.13-15.8
- kernel-bigsmp-nongpl-2.6.13-15.8

reproduce (as root):
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# cp --force --parents --preserve=all /boot/vmlinuz /tmp; echo $?
cp: cannot lgetfilecon `/boot/vmlinuz': No data available
1
# cp --force --parents --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps,links /boot/vmlinuz /tmp; echo $?
0
# selinuxenabled;echo $?
1

bug-description:
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- info/man states that "--preserve=all" is the same as "--preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps,links". The above example shows the opposite. 
- the first command shouldn't fail as root(this is what we did in our backup script)
- coreutils 5.3.0 don't seem to be a official release. At least at http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils/ there is no such version. Why do you distribute unofficial versions?

regards,
 schludi

Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2006-02-28 17:43:06 UTC

Fixed.