Re: Regression: 2.14 does not create directories of symlinks

[Jakub Jankowski]

On 17/05/2023 20.34, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Hi Kris Karas (Bug Reporting) <bugs-a21@moonlit-rail.com> ha escrit:
>
> >         # rpm2cpio <
> >         # ../source/RPMS/libreoffice7.4-freedesktop-menus-7.4.7-2.noarch.rpm
>
> It would be very helpful if you included the resulting cpio archive.
> Without it there's not much I can say on the subject.


Here's a minimal reproducer:

$ mkdir -p usr/bin usr/sbin
$ touch usr/bin/file
$ ln -s ../bin/file usr/sbin/file
$ tree
.
└── usr
    ├── bin
    │   └── file
    └── sbin
        └── file -> ../bin/file

$ find . -mindepth 3 | cpio -H newc -o > /tmp/repro.cpio
1 block

$ bsdtar tvf /tmp/repro.cpio
lrwxrwxrwx  1 1000   1000       11 Jan 13 01:54 usr/sbin/file -> ../bin/file
-rw-r--r--  1 1000   1000        0 Jan 13 01:54 usr/bin/file

$ mkdir ../unpack
$ cd ../unpack
$ cpio --extract --make-directories --no-absolute-filenames < 
/tmp/repro.cpio
cpio: usr/sbin/file: Cannot open: No such file or directory
1 block
$ echo $?
2
$ tree
.
└── usr
    └── bin
        └── file
$

This is cpio 2.14-1 on Arch Linux; same happens on Fedora 39 with 
cpio-2.14-4.fc39.x86_64. Downgrading to 2.13 resolves the issue.

Cheers,
 J.