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From: "Fergus" <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:16:24 +0100
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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



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