Package: cpio Version: 2.6-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Before this version of cpio, cpio would backup broken sylinks (symlinks that did not actually point to a valid file.) Since this version it throws the error "No such file or directory", and fails to backup the link. We do nightly backups and daily apt-get updates and this problem started Monday August 8, 2005; which corresponds to the cpio update. Follow this to see the error: # #BEGIN # mkdir t # cd t # ln -s not-here dangle-symlink # find ./ | cpio --create > archive.cpio cpio: ./dangle-symlink: No such file or directory 1 block # cpio --list < archive.cpio 1 block # #END I marked this as "grave" because our backups no longer reflect the state of our filesystem. Restores would lose data. Users expecting full backups are not getting what they expect. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages cpio depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an cpio recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
