Bug#1055694: initramfs-tools: After updating coreutils cp: not replacing in console when running update-initramfs

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@evolvis.org>]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2023, Sven Joachim wrote:

>|   'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now exit with nonzero status if they skip their
>|   action because the destination exists, and likewise for 'cp -i',

Ouch! Nonzero? That’s harsh, and bad as it’s impossible to distinguish
between error and declining to copy/move.

There is a good example in diff(1) for how to handle this better:
use distinct errorlevels for each case.

Michael, could you perhaps throw that upstream?

bye,
//mirabilos
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