Debian bug report logs - #1090 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1090: Gzip 1.2.4-6 Reply-To: jimr@simons-rock.edu, debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: "James A. Robinson" Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 22:48:01 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: gzip X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 22:48:01 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 07102237239277; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 22:37:23 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sVRR7-00063ZC; Mon, 10 Jul 95 15:36 PDT Received: from plato.simons-rock.edu by pixar.com with SMTP id AA22681 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 10 Jul 1995 15:34:47 -0700 Received: from simons-rock.edu by plato.simons-rock.edu with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0sVRR0-00000zC; Mon, 10 Jul 95 18:36 EDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: MH 6.8.3 To: Debian Bugs Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 18:36:14 -0400 From: "James A. Robinson" Package: gzip version: 1.2.4 revision: 6 gzip exits with a status of 2, which will kill makefiles and anything else that looks at the exit status of programs called within it. A work-around until it is fixed is to pipe it through true: gzip -9fr dir/|true should work. Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: jimr@simons-rock.edu Subject: Bug#1090: Acknowledgement (was: Gzip 1.2.4-6) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1090: Gzip 1.2.4-6 Reply-To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 13:33:05 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: gzip X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 13:33:05 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 071213323015182; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 13:32:30 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sW1rl-0005zLC; Wed, 12 Jul 95 06:30 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA24156 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 12 Jul 1995 06:28:41 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sW1rT-000C0UC; Wed, 12 Jul 95 14:29 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.32); Wed, 12 Jul 95 00:30 BST Message-Id: Date: Wed, 12 Jul 95 00:30 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: debian-bugs@pixar.com James A. Robinson writes ("Bug#1090: Gzip 1.2.4-6"): > Package: gzip > version: 1.2.4 > revision: 6 > > gzip exits with a status of 2, which will kill makefiles and anything > else that looks at the exit status of programs called within it. > A work-around until it is fixed is to pipe it through true: > gzip -9fr dir/|true > should work. Just to clarify, I think Jim Robinson meant to report this bug against 1.2.6-4 and transposed the version number. I'm running 1.2.4-6 and it works for me. Jim Robinson: if you did mean 1.2.4-6 I'd be happy to see a transcript so I can try to reproduce the bug, which would then appear to be context-sensitive. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Subject: Bug#1090: Info received (was Bug#1090: Gzip 1.2.4-6) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1090" or "Re: Bug#1090" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1090: Gzip 1.2.4-6 Reply-To: "James A. Robinson" , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: "James A. Robinson" Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:18:12 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: gzip X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:18:12 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 071214061718261; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:06:17 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sW2OM-00063ZC; Wed, 12 Jul 95 07:03 PDT Received: from plato.simons-rock.edu by pixar.com with SMTP id AA25492 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 12 Jul 1995 07:02:10 -0700 Received: from simons-rock.edu by plato.simons-rock.edu with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0sW2Mg-00001WC; Wed, 12 Jul 95 10:02 EDT Message-Id: To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@pixar.com In-Reply-To: Message from iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) of "Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:30:00 -0000." Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 10:02:13 -0400 From: "James A. Robinson" > Just to clarify, I think Jim Robinson meant to report this bug against > 1.2.6-4 and transposed the version number. I'm running 1.2.4-6 and it > works for me. > > Jim Robinson: if you did mean 1.2.4-6 I'd be happy to see a transcript > so I can try to reproduce the bug, which would then appear to be > context-sensitive. I don't think there is a 1.2.6 gzip out. I'm using the latest gzip, and I believe it is the same as the one on another machine I have on the net (and gauss *does* have 1.2.4-6). A transcript is below. I originally ran it through strace and saw the exit(2), but Ian's method of tracking the exit status is so much easier... Learn something new every day! :) [gauss:~]$ gzip --version gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93) Compilation options: DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H ASMV [gauss:~]$ ls test test.aux test.dvi test.log test.ps test.tex [gauss:~]$ gzip -9fr test/ [gauss:~]$ echo $? 2 [gauss:~]$ ls test test.aux.gz test.dvi.gz test.log.gz test.ps.gz test.tex.gz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: "James A. Robinson" Subject: Bug#1090: Info received (was Bug#1090: Gzip 1.2.4-6) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1090: Gzip 1.2.4-6 Reply-To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 12:18:03 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: gzip X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 12:18:03 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 071312110126770; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 12:11:01 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sWN5R-00063gC; Thu, 13 Jul 95 05:09 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA08841 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 13 Jul 1995 05:08:01 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sWN55-000C0EC; Thu, 13 Jul 95 13:09 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.32); Thu, 13 Jul 95 02:04 BST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 02:04 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: debian-bugs@pixar.com James A. Robinson writes ("Bug#1090: Gzip 1.2.4-6"): > [gauss:~]$ gzip --version > gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93) > Compilation options: > DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H ASMV > > [gauss:~]$ ls test > test.aux test.dvi test.log test.ps test.tex > > [gauss:~]$ gzip -9fr test/ > > [gauss:~]$ echo $? > 2 > > [gauss:~]$ ls test > test.aux.gz test.dvi.gz test.log.gz test.ps.gz test.tex.gz Ah, I see from my experiments that it only happens if you say `-f' ! Ian. chiark:~/in> cp /usr/doc/HOWTO/COPYRIGHT /usr/doc/copyright/GPL test/. chiark:~/in> ls test COPYRIGHT GPL chiark:~/in> gzip --version gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93) Compilation options: DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H ASMV chiark:~/in> gzip -9fr test chiark:~/in> echo $? 2 chiark:~/in> ls -al test total 17 drwxrwsr-x 2 ian ian 1024 Jul 13 02:01 ./ drwxrwsr-x 5 ian ian 8192 Jul 13 02:01 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 618 Jul 13 02:01 COPYRIGHT.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 6832 Jul 13 02:01 GPL.gz chiark:~/in> df . Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sdb4 251839 238836 0 100% /u chiark:~/in> gunzip test/* chiark:~/in> gzip -9r test chiark:~/in> echo $? 0 chiark:~/in> ls -al test total 17 drwxrwsr-x 2 ian ian 1024 Jul 13 02:02 ./ drwxrwsr-x 5 ian ian 8192 Jul 13 02:02 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 618 Jul 13 02:01 COPYRIGHT.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 6832 Jul 13 02:01 GPL.gz chiark:~/in> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) Subject: Bug#1090: Info received (was Bug#1090: Gzip 1.2.4-6) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. 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