bug#41081: closed (coreutils: cp is built without xattr support)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: coreutils: cp is built without xattr support Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 16:59:39 +0300

It's often very useful to run:

 

# cp --preserve=xattr aaa.txt  bbb.txt

Running this on Guix I get:

 

cp: cannot preserve extended attributes, cp is built without xattr support

 

I.e., it's used in Yocto build system.

 

There is a workaround: https://github.com/mnd/guix-mnd-pkgs/blob/master/mnd/packages/coreutils.scm, but I believe that this should be considered as bug and fixed in upstream (like Fedora did https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603359).

 

Thank you!

 

 

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Timofey Komarov

 

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#41081: coreutils: cp is built without xattr support Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 20:25:32 +0200

Tim Komarov <happycorsair@yandex.ru> writes:

> It's often very useful to run:
>  
> # cp --preserve=xattr aaa.txt  bbb.txt
> Running this on Guix I get:
>  
> cp: cannot preserve extended attributes, cp is built without xattr support

Fixed on the 'core-updates' branch with commit
11ae7e9e45153b63c4bcd1625a6156da512d65a7.

It will take a while before it shows up in the master branch though.

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