Public bug reported:
in ubuntu14, the behavior of "ln --relative" seems to be quite broken.
on ubuntu 16 it works as expected. can we please backport whatever fix
from u16 or update coreutils? 8.15 is where they started including the
'realpath' binary, maybe they fixed "ln --relative" too.
u14 INCORRECT:
$ loop=0; nloops=4; base=/tmp/lntest; rm -rf $base/ && mkdir -p $base/dir &&
touch $base/dir/file && while ((loop++ < nloops)); do ln -frs $base/dir/file
$base/link; readlink -f $base/link; sleep 1; done
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/file
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/file
u16 CORRECT:
$ loop=0; nloops=4; base=/tmp/lntest; rm -rf $base/ && mkdir -p $base/dir &&
touch $base/dir/file && while ((loop++ < nloops)); do ln -frs $base/dir/file
$base/link; readlink -f $base/link; sleep 1; done
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
** Affects: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
in ubuntu14, the behavior of "ln --relative" seems to be quite broken.
on ubuntu 16 it works as expected. can we please backport whatever fix
from u16 or update coreutils? 8.15 is where they started including the
'realpath' binary, maybe they fixed "ln --relative" too.
u14 INCORRECT:
- $ loop=0; nloops=4; base=/tmp/lntest; rm -rf $base/ && mkdir -p $base/dir &&
touch $base/dir/file && while ((loop++ < nloops)); do ln <-frs $base/dir/file
$base/link; readlink -f $base/link; sleep 1; done
+ $ loop=0; nloops=4; base=/tmp/lntest; rm -rf $base/ && mkdir -p $base/dir &&
+ touch $base/dir/file && while ((loop++ < nloops)); do ln -frs $base/dir/file
$base/link; readlink -f $base/link; sleep 1; done
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/file
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/file
u16 CORRECT:
- $ loop=0; nloops=4; base=/tmp/lntest; rm -rf $base/ && mkdir -p $base/dir &&
touch $base/dir/file && while ((loop++ < nloops)); do ln <-frs $base/dir/file
$base/link; readlink -f $base/link; sleep 1; done
+ $ loop=0; nloops=4; base=/tmp/lntest; rm -rf $base/ && mkdir -p $base/dir &&
+ touch $base/dir/file && while ((loop++ < nloops)); do ln -frs $base/dir/file
$base/link; readlink -f $base/link; sleep 1; done
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1715753
Title:
ln --relative broken on u14, works on u16
Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
in ubuntu14, the behavior of "ln --relative" seems to be quite broken.
on ubuntu 16 it works as expected. can we please backport whatever
fix from u16 or update coreutils? 8.15 is where they started including
the 'realpath' binary, maybe they fixed "ln --relative" too.
u14 INCORRECT:
$ loop=0; nloops=4; base=/tmp/lntest; rm -rf $base/ && mkdir -p $base/dir &&
touch $base/dir/file && while ((loop++ < nloops)); do ln -frs $base/dir/file
$base/link; readlink -f $base/link; sleep 1; done
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/file
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/file
u16 CORRECT:
$ loop=0; nloops=4; base=/tmp/lntest; rm -rf $base/ && mkdir -p $base/dir &&
touch $base/dir/file && while ((loop++ < nloops)); do ln -frs $base/dir/file
$base/link; readlink -f $base/link; sleep 1; done
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
/tmp/lntest/dir/file
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