diff -urp fileutils-4.1.7.orig/configure.ac fileutils-4.1.7-cp/configure.ac
--- fileutils-4.1.7.orig/configure.ac	Sun Mar 31 08:10:32 2002
+++ fileutils-4.1.7-cp/configure.ac	Tue Apr  2 16:10:57 2002
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ if test $fu_cv_sys_truncating_statfs = y
 fi
 AC_MSG_RESULT($fu_cv_sys_truncating_statfs)
 
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS(hurd.h)
+
 jm_LIB_CHECK
 
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT
Only in fileutils-4.1.7-cp: obj
diff -urp fileutils-4.1.7.orig/src/copy.c fileutils-4.1.7-cp/src/copy.c
--- fileutils-4.1.7.orig/src/copy.c	Sun Mar 10 03:27:11 2002
+++ fileutils-4.1.7-cp/src/copy.c	Tue Apr  2 16:13:42 2002
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
 #include <assert.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 
+#if HAVE_HURD_H
+# include <hurd.h>
+#endif
+
 #include "system.h"
 #include "error.h"
 #include "backupfile.h"
@@ -1504,6 +1508,16 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, con
 	}
     }
 
+#if HAVE_HURD_H
+  /* Preserve the st_author field.  */
+  {
+    file_t file = getdport (dst_path);
+    if (file_chauthor (file, src_sb.st_author))
+      error (0, errno, _("preserving authorship for %s"), quote (dst_path));
+    mach_port_deallocate (mach_task_self (), file);
+  }
+#endif
+  
   /* Permissions of newly-created regular files were set upon `open' in
      copy_reg.  But don't return early if there were any special bits and
      we had to run chown, because the chown must have reset those bits.  */