trac-admin hotcopy does not preserve file & directory ownership

[anonymous]

trac-admin hotcopy is not preserving the ownership of directories and files. When I do hotcopy, as root, of trac project directory, the resulting copy has user:group of 'root:root' for everything.

I guess that the hotcopy is doing a strait 'cp …' command. It should be doing archive mode copy i.e. 'cp -a …' or equivalant 'cp -dpR …' according to man page.

Yeh Ha! I found a bug and was able to help! I much like this issue tracker.

Best Regards, Jim

[Emmanuel Blot]

Replying to anonymous:

I guess that the hotcopy is doing a strait 'cp …' command.

Wrong guess ;-) It's written in Python, which eventually calls the shutils Python library.

[Christian Boos]

Well, I think that the workarounds are quite simple: either do the copy as the same user (if you run the script as root, su -c "trac-admin ... hotcopy") or do a chown -R afterwards.

I don't think it's worth adding extra complexity in the hotcopy command for this.