Etckeeper should not complain about hardlinked files when using bzr VCS

Bug #911155 reported by NeilGreenwood
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etckeeper (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

bzr VCS handles hardlinked files, e.g. the checkout command has an option to create hardlinks.

The warning message in pre-commit should no longer complain about hardlinked files when using bzr as VCS.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: etckeeper 0.56ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 3 10:03:47 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=cy:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=cy_GB.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=cy_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: etckeeper
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-21 (73 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.etckeeper.pre.commit.d.20warn.problem.files: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.etckeeper.unclean.d.50test: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.etckeeper.pre.commit.d.20warn.problem.files: 2012-01-03T10:01:01.181995
mtime.conffile..etc.etckeeper.unclean.d.50test: 2009-10-30T16:10:33

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NeilGreenwood (neil-greenwood) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "Suggested changes to pre-commit warning script" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch. The ubuntu-reviewers team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review the patch. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-reviewers team please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

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tags: added: patch
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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

Bazaar can indeed create hardlinks when it creates a checkout (so can e.g. git) but it doesn't explicitly version the fact that hardlinks exist somewhere. The warning here is about the latter category.

Changed in etckeeper (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for etckeeper (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in etckeeper (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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