coreutils in Rawhide ~ behavior change to the -v option on cp?

[Ian Laurie]

It looks to me like there has been a recent change to the verbose 
reporting option on the cp command.

Previously (and still in Fedora 38) the -v option will report on files 
actually copied, but ignores files not copied (for example when -v is 
used with -u).

However in Rawhide the -v option now reports on files skipped when used 
with -u, which has made a big mess of many of my bash scripts.

Anyone know if there is some trick to reverting traditional behavior?

Ian

[David Cantrell]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 11:46:25AM +1000, Ian Laurie wrote:
> It looks to me like there has been a recent change to the verbose reporting
> option on the cp command.
>
> Previously (and still in Fedora 38) the -v option will report on files
> actually copied, but ignores files not copied (for example when -v is used
> with -u).
>
> However in Rawhide the -v option now reports on files skipped when used with
> -u, which has made a big mess of many of my bash scripts.
>
> Anyone know if there is some trick to reverting traditional behavior?

According to the NEWS file in coreutils-9.3, I see this:

** Changes in behavior

'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now issue an error diagnostic if skipping a file,
  to correspond with -n inducing a nonzero exit status as of coreutils 9.2.
  Similarly 'cp -v' and 'mv -v' will output a message for each file skipped
  due to -n, -i, or -u.

So it looks like behavior has changed.

[Pádraig Brady]

Yes this wasn't very well considered. I'll adjust that behavior upstream, and apply an interim patch to rawhide