Updated: coreutils 9.1 cp problem

[Brian Inglis]

Hi Fergus,

Verified and confirmed.
Please reinstall 8.32 until I can get this reverted in setup.
Have requested 9.1 be reverted to test and 8.32 reverted to current stable.

On 2022-06-06 21:21, Fergus Daly wrote:
> Since updating from coreutils 8.32 I’m getting a weird glitch from cp.
> If /location1/dir1/ contains additional material to /location2/dir1/ (as might frequently be the case when maintaining a backup) then the command
> $ cp -vrn /location1/dir1 /location2
> should copy the additional material across. (I do this regularly, working in two locations on two machines with a stick to manage the transactions.)
> Since updating coreutils, this command yields an error message as follows:
> $ cp -vrn /location1/dir1 /location2
> /bin/cp: cannot create directory '/location2/dir1': File exists
> I haven’t tried any other variations on cp or explored any other commands (e.g. ls) that have altered with the update.
> This occurs in both 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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