Bug 106133

Summary:	sys-apps/coreutils - cp --parents broken, fixed in current CVS version, patch in ebuild possible?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Matthias Hoermann <taladar>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-01/msg00130.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matthias Hoermann 2005-09-15 18:15:51 UTC

See URL and following messages in that thread for detailed bug description 
(Coreutils Bug Mailinglist). Summary:
cp --parents reports error when called with an absolute path as source due to a 
wrong number of slashes in the generated target path.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
see URL
short variant (/tmp/bin should not exist):
cp --parents /bin/cp /tmp

Actual Results:  
error message : cp: failed to get attributes of 'bin': No such file or directory
files are copied but permissions are wrong 

Expected Results:  
copy files while creating necessary directories with correct permissions

for additional information of my testcase prior to finding the mailing list see 
forum thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-381398.html

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-09-16 06:19:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105639 ***