Debian Bug report logs - #576772
%Y affected by path and thus breaks mkinitramfs

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jidanni@jidanni.org

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: %Y affected by path

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:02:14 +0800

X-debbugs-Cc: max@stro.at, 576677@bugs.debian.org, bug-findutils@gnu.org
Package: findutils
Version: 4.5.7-1

Dear Find Sirs, as you can see on
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576677#130
for the %Y code to function properly, one must give the full path to the
file, not just a higher directory.

Message #10 received at 576772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jidanni@jidanni.org

To: max@stro.at

Cc: cjwatson@ubuntu.com, 576677@bugs.debian.org, 576772@bugs.debian.org, bug-findutils@gnu.org

Subject: Re: find's %Y

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:15:20 +0800

What's barfy is it turns out the same command sometimes gives different output!
$ mount|grep /tmp #df shows plenty of space too.
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
14:04 ~$ find /tmp/NOSHUCH -printf %Y\\n
N
14:05 ~$ find /tmp/sleep  -printf %Y\\n
f
14:05 ~$ find /tmp -name sleep  -printf %Y\\n ###COMPARE
N
N
14:05 ~$ cd /tmp; ln -s /etc/debian_version .
14:06 tmp$ find /tmp/debian_version -printf %Y\\n
f
14:07 tmp$ find /tmp -name debian_version -printf %Y\\n
f
14:07 tmp$ find /tmp -name debian_version -printf %Y\\n
f
14:07 tmp$ find /tmp -name sleep -print -printf %Y\\n
/tmp/sleep
f
/tmp/mkinitramfs_VcP7aW/bin/sleep
f
14:08 tmp$ find /tmp -name sleep  -printf %Y\\n ###COMPARE
f
f

Message #15 received at 576772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jidanni@jidanni.org

To: max@stro.at

Cc: cjwatson@ubuntu.com, 576677@bugs.debian.org, 576772@bugs.debian.org, bug-findutils@gnu.org

Subject: Re: find's %Y

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:24:40 +0800

Apparently it is affected by CWD:

14:21 ~$ cd -
/tmp
14:21 tmp$ find /tmp -name sleep  -printf %Y\\n
f
f
14:21 tmp$ cd -
/home/jidanni
14:21 ~$ find /tmp -name sleep  -printf %Y\\n
N
N
14:21 ~$ cd -
/tmp
14:22 tmp$ find /tmp -name sleep  -printf %Y\\n
f
f
14:22 tmp$ mount|egrep /home\|/tmp
/dev/hda6 on /home type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)

Message #20 received at 576772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jidanni@jidanni.org

To: max@stro.at

Cc: cjwatson@ubuntu.com, 576677@bugs.debian.org, 576772@bugs.debian.org, bug-findutils@gnu.org

Subject: Re: find's %Y

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:30:47 +0800

So I thought cd'ing to /tmp would help
(cd /tmp
find "${DESTDIR}" -type l -printf '%p %Y\n' | sed -n 's/ [LN]$//p' \
	| xargs --verbose -rL1 rm -f
)
however the files got zapped anyway. So it's back to the random %Y
accuracy theory.

Message #25 received at 576772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jidanni@jidanni.org

To: max@stro.at

Cc: cjwatson@ubuntu.com, 576677@bugs.debian.org, 576772@bugs.debian.org, bug-findutils@gnu.org

Subject: Re: find's %Y

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:34:06 +0800

Anyway, I have shown %Y is moody and not to be trusted.
I will now step back and hand the baton to others.

Message #30 received at 576772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>

To: jidanni@jidanni.org

Cc: max@stro.at, bug-findutils@gnu.org, 576677@bugs.debian.org, 576772@bugs.debian.org, cjwatson@ubuntu.com, ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org

Subject: Re: find's %Y

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:25:16 +0100

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:34 AM,  <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
> Anyway, I have shown %Y is moody and not to be trusted.
> I will now step back and hand the baton to others.

Thanks for reporting the problem.

I have a good idea what the problem is; pred.c calls stat and lstat
without changing working directory.     It was your statement that
it's sensitive to the original working directory that clued me in.

Because this bug is in Debian's BTS and starts off with some
apparently-irrelevant stuff, I have logged this issue in the upstream
tracker.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?29460

That bug contains an explanation and a patch fixing the bug (including
a regression test suite addition).    Meanwhile the "oldfind" binary
built with 4.5.7 should be unaffected.

James.

Message #35 received at 576772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jidanni@jidanni.org

To: 576677@bugs.debian.org, 576772@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: find's %Y

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:25:09 +0800

JY> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?29460
OK glad this has been tracked down.

Message #40 received at 576772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>

To: jidanni@jidanni.org, 576772@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#576772: find's %Y

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:35:17 +0200

On 2010-04-07 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Anyway, I have shown %Y is moody and not to be trusted.
> I will now step back and hand the baton to others.

Hello,
Which version of of find are you using to trigger the behavior?

thanks, cu and- The testcase for upstream 29460 only triggeres on
                4.5.7, but not 4.4.2  -reas

Message #47 received at 576772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jidanni@jidanni.org

To: ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org

Cc: 576772@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#576772: find's %Y

Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:21:14 +0800

$ w3m -dump http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=$@|grep ^Version
Version: 4.5.7-1

Message #56 received at 576772-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>

To: 576772-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#576677: fixed in findutils 4.5.8-1

Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:56:03 +0200

Source: findutils
Source-Version: 4.5.8-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
findutils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

findutils_4.5.8-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/f/findutils/findutils_4.5.8-1.debian.tar.gz
findutils_4.5.8-1.dsc
  to main/f/findutils/findutils_4.5.8-1.dsc
findutils_4.5.8-1_i386.deb
  to main/f/findutils/findutils_4.5.8-1_i386.deb
findutils_4.5.8.orig.tar.gz
  to main/f/findutils/findutils_4.5.8.orig.tar.gz
locate_4.5.8-1_i386.deb
  to main/f/findutils/locate_4.5.8-1_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 576677@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> (supplier of updated findutils package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:03:56 +0200
Source: findutils
Binary: findutils locate
Architecture: source i386
Version: 4.5.8-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Description: 
 findutils  - utilities for finding files--find, xargs
 locate     - maintain and query an index of a directory tree
Closes: 576677
Changes: 
 findutils (4.5.8-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * libselinux1-dev is only available on Linux, update build-dependency.
   * New upstream version.
     Fixes savannah #29460: -printf %Y fails in $CWD-dependent way.
     Closes: #576677
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Bug # in changelog is wrong, resent to correct report.

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