NetBSD Problem Report #14214
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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:52:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: christos@zoulas.com
Reply-To: christos@zoulas.com
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: mtree gets confused with symlinks
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>Number: 14214
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: mtree gets confused with symlinks
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Oct 10 19:53:00 +0000 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified: Sat Jun 16 06:47:16 +0000 2012
>Originator: Christos Zoulas
>Release: 20011010
>Organization:
stack-em-up-straight
>Environment:
System: NetBSD beowulf.gw.com 1.5X NetBSD 1.5X (GW-GENERIC) #36: Sat Jul 28 11:41:19 EDT 2001 kim@nix.suominen.org:/net/nix/src-3/NetBSD/cvsroot/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GW-GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
missing: ./var (not created: File exists)
missing: ./var/account (not created: File exists)
missing: ./var/at (not created: File exists)
missing: ./var/at/jobs (not created: File exists)
missing: ./var/at/spool (not created: File exists)
missing: ./var/backups (not created: File exists)
missing: ./var/crash (not created: File exists)
>How-To-Repeat:
mv /var /usr
cd /
ln -s usr/var
cd /usr/src
make build
>Fix:
none
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: lukem
State-Changed-When: Wed Nov 7 00:05:07 PST 2001
State-Changed-Why:
I've recently added -L and -P to mtree(8) (idea from FreeBSD).
-P is the default, and the current behaviour.
-L means fts(3) walk `logically' (FTS_LOGICAL).
mtree -L should solve your problem, although you may have to change any
spec entries of links to files to type=file instead of type=link (e.g,
./etc/localtime).
Does this solve your problem?
Responsible-Changed-From-To: bin-bug-people->lukem
Responsible-Changed-By: lukem
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Nov 7 00:05:07 PST 2001
Responsible-Changed-Why:
I'm tracking it
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open
State-Changed-By: christos
State-Changed-When: Sat Jan 5 12:39:01 EST 2002
State-Changed-Why:
Shouldn't logical be the default? I.e. If I make /var a symlink, why should
mtree complain? It seems perfectly fine to me.
From: David Holland <dholland@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/14214: mtree gets confused with symlinks
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:29:42 +0000
(This was sent to gnats-admin instead of gnats-bugs.)
From: Steven Drake <sbd@users.sf.net>
To: gnats-admin@NetBSD.org
Subject: PR bin/14214: mtree gets confused with symlinks
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:56:30 +1300 (NZDT)
This patch seams to fix the problem, but mtree will still exit with code 2.
patch is against mtree-20081105 (pkgsrc-2008Q4)
$NetBSD: verify.c,v 1.5 2008/11/06 02:14:52 jschauma Exp $
--- verify.c.orig
+++ verify.c
@@ -148,7 +148,10 @@ vwalk(void)
ep->flags |= F_VISIT;
if (compare(ep, p))
rval = MISMATCHEXIT;
- if (!(ep->flags & F_IGN) &&
+ if (ep->type == F_DIR &&
+ p->fts_info == FTS_SL ) {
+ fts_set(t, p, FTS_FOLLOW);
+ } else if (!(ep->flags & F_IGN) &&
ep->type == F_DIR &&
p->fts_info == FTS_D) {
if (ep->child) {
Responsible-Changed-From-To: lukem->bin-bug-people
Responsible-Changed-By: lukem@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 06:47:16 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
>Unformatted:
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