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Offline andyj

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Busybox 1.27 mv broken
« on: October 28, 2017, 08:58:38 AM »
Busybox 1.25 (TC 8.0) mv would move all files in a wildcard source including links good or broken. Busybox 1.27 (TC 8.1+) mv will not move a link if it is broken. This is a bit of a challenge when building extensions because sometimes the link in the extension won't be good until the extension is installed. GNU mv on a distro like Slackware moves all links good and broken. Seems like mv changed for some reason?

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Re: Busybox 1.27 mv broken
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2017, 10:31:15 PM »
Could you give an example - I just tried a quick test and was able to move a broken link?

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Re: Busybox 1.27 mv broken
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2017, 05:55:33 AM »
Try:

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mkdir -p /tmp/mvtest/TCZ/usr/local/lib /tmp/mvtest/TCZ-dev/usr/local/lib
cd /tmp/mvtest/TCZ-dev/usr/local/lib
touch libmy.so.1.0.1
ln -s libmy.so.1.0.1 libmy.so.1
ln -s libmynolink.so libmy.so
cd /tmp/mvtest
mv TCZ-dev/usr/local/lib/*.so* TCZ/usr/local/lib
find

If it matters this is 64 bit.

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Re: Busybox 1.27 mv broken
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2017, 11:26:04 AM »
Confirmed, but this is actually an ash bug. Running your script under bash succeeds.
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Re: Busybox 1.27 mv broken
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2017, 01:55:05 PM »
But this used to work in Busybox/ash 1.25 (TC 8.0) and before. "type mv is /bin/mv" which is still Busybox. The behavior changed. It didn't used to be a bug, or it would have been a problem before I upgraded past 8.0.

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Re: Busybox 1.27 mv broken
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2017, 11:53:00 PM »
There have been few recent changes to mv in busybox git (5 this year), whereas there have been a bunch of changes to ash..

Could you submit a bug report to busybox?

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Re: Busybox 1.27 mv broken
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2017, 02:08:34 AM »
I sent an email. This is also something we can fix with a config change, by disabling the "ash: use glob from libc" option.

And yeah, the bug was introduced after 1.25. Ash is part of busybox.
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Re: Busybox 1.27 mv broken
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2017, 03:54:50 AM »
Meaning "CONFIG_ASH_INTERNAL_GLOB=y"?

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Re: Busybox 1.27 mv broken
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2017, 12:05:26 PM »
Yeah, that one.
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