Subject: dump: restore -N still does a chown/chmod
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:08:57 -0500
Package: dump
Version: 0.4b42-2
Severity: normal
While restore -N does not meddle with the existence or contents of any
file, it does tamper with the ownership and permissions of any existing
file or directory. For example, if you do a "restore r" into an empty
directory as a regular user, followed by a "restore r -N" as root,
you'll notice that the ownership/permissions have been set by the second
run.
Although this is technically not in contradiction with the manpage, I
think most people would expect -N to be the equivalent of the commonly
found --test or --dry-run options, and would not expect this behavior.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.6 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dump depends on:
ii e2fslibs 1.41.10-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system librari
ii libblkid1 2.16.2-0 block device id library
ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcomerr2 1.41.10-1 common error description library
ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.39-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline6 6.1-1 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libselinux1 2.0.89-4 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii libsepol1 2.0.40-2 SELinux library for manipulating b
ii libuuid1 2.16.2-0 Universally Unique ID library
ii tar 1.22-2 GNU version of the tar archiving u
dump recommends no packages.
dump suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Acknowledgement sent
to Frédéric Brière <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Bdale Garbee <[email protected]>.
(Tue, 28 May 2013 00:45:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Subject: Re: Bug#574469: dump: restore segfaults on bad entry with -y option
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 20:43:17 -0400
usertags 574469 - orphaned
submitter 574469 Frédéric Brière <[email protected]>
usertags 571049 - orphaned
submitter 571049 Frédéric Brière <[email protected]>
thanks
I've long ago stopped using dump/restore for backups (I will not miss
those DDS tapes one bit), so I don't really care what happens of these
bug reports anymore.
If anyone out there has any interest in one of these bugs, please feel
free to adopt it and set yourself as its new submitter. Otherwise, the
maintainer has my blessing to handle them as he sees fit.
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