Opened 21 years ago

Closed 21 years ago

Last modified 18 years ago

#1464 closed defect (fixed)

cpio-2.6 doesn't preserve symlinks

Reported by: gschafer@… Owned by: tushar@…
Priority: high Milestone:
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Please see the url for details.

This is a nasty bug that prevents any serious usage of cpio and it needs addressing.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by tushar@…, 21 years ago

Milestone: future → 6.1
Owner: changed from blfs-book@… to tushar@…

comment:2 by tushar@…, 21 years ago

Status: new → assigned

comment:3 by tushar@…, 21 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

Added #define HAVE_LSTAT 1 to config.h.

As per the above thread, in particular <​http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-dev/2005-June/010153.html>, there are multiple defines that are not checked by configure. These have been fixed upstream.

comment:4 by (none), 18 years ago

Milestone: 6.1

Milestone 6.1 deleted

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