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author | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2003-11-28 09:19:40 +0000 |
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diff --git a/README-alpha b/README-alpha new file mode 100644 index 0000000..598cf97 --- /dev/null +++ b/README-alpha @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +This is the GNU cpio package. + +This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet. If +you have dowloaded its sources from CVS, you will need to have the following +software to build it: + +Package Version (>=) +--------- ------------ +autoconf 2.54 +automake 1.7.1 +libtool 1.4.3 + +To build the configuration suite, run + + autoreconf -f -i -s + +Then, configure and build the package as usual. + +Report bugs to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org> + +To retrieve the sources from CVS issue the following commands: + +cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/cpio login + +Press enter when prompted for a password. + +cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/cpio checkout cpio + +This will give you read-only access. If you think you need write access, +contact the maintainer. + + + @@ -0,0 +1,375 @@ +Following is the list of cpio-related reports to bug-gnu-utils. +Many of them appear to be fixed, but quite a number of them is +probably still waiting for being handled. The list is sorted +in reverse chronological order. + + 3. [cpio] Extracting to stdout (score: 10) + Author: Vincent <cpio@hightek.org> + Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:14:09 -0500 + Hi. Is there any specific reason you cannot extract archives to + stdout. I often need that ability to operate on the data as a + stream. I commonly use it with tar but could not find any way + of doing it + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-07/msg00454.html (3,737 bytes) + + 4. copyin.c cpio probably questions/rfc (score: 35) + Author: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl> + Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:12:45 +0100 + Hi! I am currently working on module that (in GNU software) + will be able to read/write cpio format (only ascii). Thus i am + separating some of cpio structures into libcpio. I've been + going through cop + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-06/msg00422.html (5,430 bytes) + + 5. RE: Problem when building on HP-UX 11i(11.11) (score: 4) + Author: "Leon Strydom" <leon.strydom@tasima.co.za> + Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:10:02 +0200 + Hi Bob, I got it to compile, thanks. The reason why I had to + try GNU-Tar is because of the 2GB file size limit problems: + Here are the errors I got: With TAR(hp-ux 11i tar): CMD: tar + cvf backup.tar /a + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-03/msg00106.html (5,191 bytes) + + 6. cpio - large file support (score: 35) + Author: "Keith Ansell" <keitha@edp.fastfreenet.com> + Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:24:37 -0000 + Can you help. I need to archive a large database, this will + create a cpio file greater than 2 Gigabytes. Have you added + large file support to the build of cpio. Regards Keith + Ansell..... + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-03/msg00024.html (4,329 bytes) + + 7. cpio-2.5 typos (score: 36) + Author: Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at> + Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:53:38 +0100 + In cpio-2.5, in cpio.texi (and thus cpio.1) and main.c the word + 'compatibility' is misspelled as 'compatability'. Please fix, + thanks. Thomas -- Thomas Klausner - wiz@bogus.example.com What + is wanted + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-12/msg00200.html (3,783 bytes) + + 9. Re: bug in cpio with tapechange in copy-in-mode (score: 46) + Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> + Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:28:33 -0700 (PDT) + Thanks for your bug report. Can you please verify that the bug + still exists in the latest CPIO version + <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.5.tar.gz>, and if so, please + send a patch to <bug-cpio@bogus. + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-08/msg00127.html (4,275 bytes) + + 10. bug in cpio with tapechange in copy-in-mode (score: 34) + Author: Bernd =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sch=FCler?= + <b.schueler@eckert-buerotechnik.de> + Date: 05 Aug 2002 18:37:56 +0200 + Hello, last i made a restore from tape, and no request for next + tape happend, only an read-error occured. Here is an quick + patch, please verify the problem and the patch-code. I'm not + sure, if the pr + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-08/msg00122.html (4,518 bytes) + + 11. Re: CPIO Bug ? (score: 36) + Author: Albert Chin <bug-gnu-utils@lists.thewrittenword.com> + Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:31:04 -0500 + I think the default CPIO format understands only 16-bit inodes. + Look at the -H option. '-H newc' should work better for you. -- + albert chin (china@bogus.example.com) + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-07/msg00091.html (4,286 bytes) + + 14. Re: bug in cpio? (score: 40) + Author: kasal@matsrv.math.cas.cz (Stepan Kasal) + Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:44:14 +0000 (UTC) + Hallo, the following option should help: -d, --make-directories + Create leading directories where needed. Details: cpio won't + create the directory for the file. Observe: kasal$ echo + /home/kasal/tmp/db + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-06/msg00306.html (4,862 bytes) + + 15. bug in cpio? (score: 34) + Author: "Jeff Holt" <jeff.holt@hotsos.com> + Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:07:59 -0500 + According to the man page, I should be able to extract an + absolute pathname from an archive and have the file created + relative to the current directory (by removing the leading + ‘/’).<o:p> + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-06/msg00296.html (5,331 bytes) + + 16. CPIO Bug ? (score: 35) + Author: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9goire_Fiot?= + <gfiot@eiffageconstruction.fr> + Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:01:18 +0200 + Hello, We ve got a problem here using cpio: many "troncating + inode number" appear during the process: cpio -ocv Is that a + real problem? Does it corrupt files? Well.. what does that + mean? We have look + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00333.html (3,855 bytes) + + 23. [cpio texinfo] typo (score: 2) + Author: fabrice bauzac <fabrice.bauzac@wanadoo.fr> + Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:37:28 +0200 + Good afternoon, There is a typo in the Texinfo documentation of + GNU cpio, node "Copy-in mode": [--format=format] + [--owner=[user][:.][group]] [--no- preserve-owner] + [--message=message] [--help] [--ver + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00153.html (4,040 bytes) + + 26. cpio: memory exhausted (score: 43) + Author: Thomas McLaughlin <tamm@scotlegal.com> + Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:51:18 +0100 + This is probably not the place for my query, but I have + exhausted other avenues and would be glad of some help. I can't + work out what's going on with my nightly cpio backup. If I do: + cd / find . -pri + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-04/msg00406.html (4,988 bytes) + + 30. cpio 2.4.2 bug? (score: 40) + Author: "H.J. Thomassen" <H.J.Thomassen@ATComputing.nl> + Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:09:10 +0100 (CET) + Hello, We use GNU-cpio 2.4.2 and have the following problem: + Short: Assume I have a directory with two filenames, which are + hardlinks to the same i-node. I make a crc-cpio archive with + both files; th + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-01/msg00161.html (5,624 bytes) + + 32. GNU cpio suggestion (score: 42) + Author: "H.J.Thomassen" <hjt@ATComputing.nl> + Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:27:11 +0100 + Re: suggestion for GNU-cpio extension (plus reference + implementation) We use cpio for our backup purposes. The backup + is started automatically in the middle of the night. To chase + away all users we d + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-12/msg00244.html (7,474 bytes) + + 35. GNU cpio compile problem (score: 34) + Author: Daniel Savard <dsavard@videotron.ca> + Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:43:11 -0500 + Hi, I am trying to make the GNU cpio utility (version 2.4.2) + using the gcc 3.0.2 compiler. The make failed on the userspec.c + file compilation. I then tried to compile with gcc 2.95.3 with + the followi + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-11/msg00180.html (5,518 bytes) + + 36. cpio -d bug (fwd) (score: 47) + Author: Christian Smith <csmith@micromuse.com> + Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 02:06:46 +0000 (GMT) + This was bounced from bug-cpio@bogus.example.com I guess that + isn't set up yet. -- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST + HTML MAIL X - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS / \ $ cpio --version GNU + cpio version 2 + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-11/msg00170.html (4,548 bytes) + + 38. [cpio] man page enhancement: a Example section ? (score: 5) + Author: Yannick Patois <patois@calvix.org> + Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:48:33 +0200 (CEST) + Hello, I seldom use cpio (as I think many people) and only had + to use it once or twice. IMHA, would be good to have a small + section with an example of most often performed actions + (creating an archiv + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-10/msg00270.html (4,336 bytes) + + 39. Patch to cpio to enable verbose *skipping* of files (score: 40) + Author: Tomas Pospisek <tpo@sourcepole.ch> + Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:54:14 +0200 (CEST) + This patch enables cpio to be verbose about the files that it + does not copy, which is very handy for seeing cpio's progress + through a tape or simply for debuging. The patch along with a + Debian packag + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-10/msg00083.html (4,548 bytes) + + 40. cpio-2.4.2 patch (score: 39) + Author: Alex Efros <powerman@sky.net.ua> + Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 07:36:31 +0300 (EEST) + Hi. Linux-2.4.9, GCC-3.0, GLIBC-2.2.4, cpio-2.4.2. Compile-time + errors: --cut-- gcc -c -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DHAVE_SYS_MTIO_H=1 + -DHAVE_NETDB_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 + -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHA + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00264.html (5,259 bytes) + + 41. cpio copy-in and multiply-linked files (score: 35) + Author: Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> + Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 23:46:04 -0700 + Hi, I was wondering whether it was a bug or a feature that GNU + cpio, while in copy-in mode, will create a multiply-linked set + of files all of size 0 if the last linked file is not copied in + due to th + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00074.html (4,142 bytes) + + 42. Re: minor problems with slackware-current (score: 7) + Author: Cezary Sliwa <sliwa@cft.edu.pl> + Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:43:37 +0200 + "cpio --sparse" corrupts data. A fix attached. C.S. Attachment: + cpio-2.4.2-sparse.diff Description: Text document + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00000.html (3,989 bytes) + + 43. (no subject) (score: 2) + Author: brian@debian.org (Brian Mays) + Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 16:35:13 -0400 + When hard-linked files (along with many other files) are + archived to a cpio ustar format archive, the files are _not_ + all archived as hard links to each other in the archive. When + the same set of fil + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-07/msg00080.html (5,666 bytes) + + 44. gnu cpio and files over 2G (score: 37) + Author: J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk + Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 06:28:18 +0100 + As an increasing number of opertaing systems now support files + over 2G I took a look at the cpio (2.4.2) source to see how + hard it would be to make it cope, and was slightly shocked at + the number of + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-05/msg00010.html (4,802 bytes) + + 45. cpio suggestion + patch (score: 38) + Author: Taylor Gautier <tgautier@s8.com> + Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:40:05 -0700 + I have a suggestion for cpio. The suggestion is to make it copy + files into a temporary name and then rename the file as the + last operation. Since UNIX filesystems are supposed to + gaurantee atomicity + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-04/msg00169.html (10,674 + bytes) + + 46. [cpio 2.4.2] rmt build fails (score: 8) + Author: Gert <n8w8@n8w8.wox.org> + Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:28:52 +0200 (CEST) + Hi, The cpio 2.4.2 rmt tool fails to build on my system. I run + the following software: - Linux 2.4.2 - GCC 2.95.2 - GNU Make + 3.79.1 - GNU ld 2.10 (with BFD 2.10) - glibc 2.1.3 The build + fails like th + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00262.html (5,498 bytes) + + 47. cpio --sparse (score: 34) + Author: Cezary Sliwa <sliwa@cft.edu.pl> + Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:43:34 +0200 (CEST) + the '--sparse' option of gnu cpio causes data corruption + (blocks of zeros are lost or appended to other files). C.S. + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00235.html (3,671 bytes) + + 48. cpio 2.4.2: lose the useless "truncating inode number" message + already (score: 36) + Author: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> + Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:46:38 -0800 + As far as I understand it, no purpose is served by having cpio + print "cpio: <file>: truncating inode number" to stderr for + *every single file* it places in an archive. Yes, I could just + redirect stde + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00227.html (4,740 bytes) + + 49. Re: bug with gnu cpio 2.4.2 (score: 38) + Author: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de> + Date: 6 Mar 2001 15:19:34 GMT + This would happen if cpio want to do any user interaction (ask + for the next tape cartridge, because the current one is full, + e.g.). Cron jobs don't have access to a terminal (/dev/tty), so + this will + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00029.html (5,062 bytes) + + 50. bug with gnu cpio 2.4.2 (score: 37) + Author: dominique.bieber@sagem.com + Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:27:14 +0100 + Hi, I have a problem using cpio with a Red Hat 6.2 whith a + 2.2.14-5.0smp kernel. The backup device is a HP DAT DDS4 20/40 + with the right cartridge. The cpio is launched by the cron. + During the backup + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00024.html (4,315 bytes) + + 52. [PATCH] cpio 2.4.2 does not compile with libc 2.2, gcc 2.95 + (score: 38) + Author: "John Fremlin" <chief@bandits.org> + Date: 11 Feb 2001 22:19:09 +0000 + In fact it violates the GNU coding standards by declaring stuff + when it shouldn't. Tsk, tsk. Attachment: cpio-2.4.2-build.patch + Description: Text Data -- http://www.penguinpowered.com/~vii + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-02/msg00065.html (4,169 bytes) + + 53. cpio-2.4.2: data corruption bug (score: 35) + Author: Todd Kelley <toddk@oeone.com> + Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 17:00:06 -0500 + Hello, Recently at OEone we fixed a bug in GNU cpio-2.4.2: When + a file over about 0.5 megabyes grows while it is being + archived, it and all files following it in the archive are + corrupted. The crc do + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-02/msg00062.html (4,297 bytes) + + 54. cpio 2.4.2 unconditionally takes the tape drive offline (score: + 39) + Author: Scott Larson <scowl@plaza.ds.adp.com> + Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:15:52 -0800 + We have been copying multiple volumes to a single tape with the + System 5 version of cpio. The gnu version of cpio doesn't + support this since it takes the tape offline (i.e. ejects the + tape) after rea + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-01/msg00087.html (4,264 bytes) + + 55. cpio -t can see international filenames, find -ls also suffers + (score: 35) + Author: "Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@kimo.FiXcomTHiS.tw> + Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 07:38:53 +0800 + GNU cpio version 2.4.2 with cpio -t I can see Chinese [big5] + filenames. with -tv, they become \267\247 etc Just like what + happens with find . -print vs. find . -ls -- + http://www.geocities.com/jidanni + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00143.html (4,084 bytes) + + 56. cpio-2.4.2 compilation problems (score: 34) + Author: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?q?K=F6ller?= <tkoeller@gmx.net> + Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 02:50:24 +0100 + I encountered several problems building cpio-2.4.2. I am + running linux-2.2.17, glibc-2.1.3 and gcc 2.95.2. The errors I + received were mostly due to the source files re-declaring + things unconditionall + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00109.html (5,782 bytes) + + 58. cpio-2.4.2 & glibc-2.* (score: 46) + Author: Florian Wunderlich <fwunderlich@devbrain.de> + Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:25:00 +0100 + I still do not see a new version of cpio or at least extra + patches that fix it so it works with the glibc. Thus, here is a + simple patch to make it compile with glibc: diff -u + cpio-2.4.2-old/rmt.c cpi + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00098.html (4,846 bytes) + + 60. cpio-2.4.2 signed-unsigned int disagreement with malloc (score: + 39) + Author: Antonomasia <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:05:01 GMT + copyin.c: 534 link_name = (char *) xmalloc ((unsigned int) + file_hdr.c_filesize + 1); 535 link_name[file_hdr.c_filesize] = + '\0'; file_hdr.c_filesize can be a large negative number as + seen here then th + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-11/msg00171.html (4,718 bytes) + + 61. gnu CPIO (score: 38) + Author: Clark Cooper <Clark.Cooper@vc3.com> + Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:21:07 -0500 (EST) + The gnu version of CPIO appears to send all output to stderr. + Take for instance a need to have the list of files copied and + any errors separated as should be produced by the following: + find . -print + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-11/msg00089.html (3,903 bytes) + + 62. Desire enhancement to GNU cpio 2.4.2 (score: 35) + Author: Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com> + Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:24:56 -0600 + I have a new GNU/Linux system with large disks on which I need + to generate cpio files for many different systems including + older ones that don't support the "newc" format, only the "odc" + format. The + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-11/msg00087.html (5,115 bytes) + + 65. cpio pass-through can corrupt files (score: 36) + Author: "Parrott, Jeff" <Jeff.Parrott@sea.siemens.com> + Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:32:57 -0400 + I have seen corrupted files as a result of using the + pass-through option in cpio. The corruption occurs when + active/in-use (and growing) files are being copied. The problem + is that the file size has + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-10/msg00087.html (4,974 bytes) + + 66. [Bug-gnu-utils] A small problem with cpio (score: 36) + Author: Chris Hall <Chris@clapham.org> + Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:05:56 +0100 + Hi, I'm running cpio 2.4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 and have a problem with + very large files, I get this output when running the command: $ + ls -l total 2867988 drwxrwxrwx 2 root sys 512 Sep 14 17:05 + chris/ -rw-r + /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-09/msg00004.html (4,481 bytes) |