Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: cpio
Using cpio 2.9 (in hardy) and the traditional "find . -depth" (e.g., as
in the cpio tutorial), directory permissions and ownerships are not set
properly when the directory in question is non-empty.
Example: Given the current directory has:
.:
total 0
drwxrws--T 2 daemon backup 72 2008-04-10 00:38 d
./d:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 daemon backup 0 2008-04-10 00:38 hello
Now execute these as root:
mkdir ../tgt
find . -depth | cpio -pmd ../tgt
ls -lR ../tgt
../tgt:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 2008-04-10 00:38 d
../tgt/d:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 daemon backup 0 2008-04-10 00:38 hello
The permissions and ownership of directory d are lost. This has not been
the case for a decade (e.g., try it with the cpio versions distributed
in gutsy, feisty, edgy, dapper, ...).
Similar behaviour if you go through "cpio -o | (cd ../tgt; cpio -idm)".
In fact you can verify that the directory flags are stored into the
archive file alright; the problem is during extraction.
If you change "find . -depth" to "find .", omitting "-depth", the
problem goes away, which is my current workaround. But the original
behaviour has been relied upon for decades. It certainly caught me off-
guard when I used hardy's cpio (and the traditional find formula) to
clone a whole system and then found out the clone broke.
I have also reported it to the gnu cpio mailing list.
** Affects: cpio (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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cpio 2.9 drops directory permissions and ownership
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214942
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