From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 124023 invoked by alias); 26 Aug 2015 22:16:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 123972 invoked by uid 89); 26 Aug 2015 22:16:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: know-smtprelay-omc-9.server.virginmedia.net Received: from know-smtprelay-omc-9.server.virginmedia.net (HELO know-smtprelay-omc-9.server.virginmedia.net) (80.0.253.73) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:16:28 +0000 Received: from DELLat56 ([82.40.235.5]) by know-smtprelay-9-imp with bizsmtp id 9aGP1r00P07fic201aGQcA; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:16:25 +0100 X-Spam: 0 X-Authority: v=2.1 cv=TNS4MARa c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=3mmLVpx7njBr2j334fpFjQ==:117 a=3mmLVpx7njBr2j334fpFjQ==:17 a=tdKlQm_5AAAA:8 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=vNQKSpHK5gFILvjSW1wA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 From: "Fergus" To: Cc: Subject: Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:50:00 -0000 Message-ID: <001c01d0e04c$d8ebc210$8ac34630$@bonhard.uklinux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00473.txt.bz2 Yesterday's update from coreutils-8.23-4 to 8.24-1 has done something horrible to cp. Previously cp -r {sourcepath}/subdirectory {targetpath} is allowed even when {targetpath}/subdirectory already exists - which, very often or even usually, it does. (A very common context is where a Cygwin user maintains their own installation resource under /release/ and seeks to grow the resource after an update! But instances are multiple.) However under 8.24-1 the instruction is halted with an error message if {targetpath}/subdirectory already exists. Surely this is an accident and not an intended property of the update?? I have not tried [test]: coreutils-8.24-2 and I do not know whether this and maybe other peculiarities of 8.24-1 have been identified and corrected, but hope that this will eventually happen? Thank you! Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple