Re: install command error with fileutils 4.1 [FIXED]

[Jeremiah Mahler]

Jim,

Thanks for the quick reply, but the bug has been fixed already.

You can see the full description of the bug, etc at...

http://www.debian.org/Bugs/
Bug report number: 96465

Thanks again,

Jeremiah Mahler
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On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:25:33AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Jeremiah Mahler <address@hidden> wrote:
> | To whoever is in charge of fileutils,
> |
> | The following command fails using fileutils 4.1, but works with 4.0.
> |
> | >   install some_file some_dir/
> |
> | The old version installs the file "some_file" into the directory "some_dir",
> | but the new version fails.
> 
> Thanks for the report, but I can't reproduce it on a GNU/Linux-2.4.4
> system using a local disk:
> 
>   $ cd /tmp
>   $ mkdir d
>   $ touch f
>   $ install f d/
>   $ find d
>   d
>   d/f
>   $
> 
> Please give more information:
>   what is the type of OS?
>   is the disk in question local/NFS/?
>   if the disk is not local, from what type of system is it mounted?
>   what commands did you use to demonstrate the problem?
>   what was the precise failure?