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5985 Calculating statistics modifies relativeToVRT attribute Mike Taves warmerdam "Creating a VRT file using `gdalbuildvrt` generally creates a VRT file with relative paths to files, e.g.:
{{{
tmp/gdalbuildvrt1.tif
}}}
However, after calculating raster statistics through either `gdalinfo -stats mosaic.vrt` or calling [http://www.gdal.org/classGDALRasterBand.html#a6aa58b6f0a0c17722b9bf763a96ff069 GDALRasterBand::GetStatistics], this attribute is modified to the default `relativeToVRT=""0""` and the content is modified to an absolute file path:
{{{
/path/to/tmp/gdalbuildvrt1.tif
}}}
This quiet modification of the VRT file structure is not expected, and may break the links if the structure is later moved to a different path (assuming the links are still relative).
It would be preferred to preserve the `relativeToVRT` attribute for VRT files when calculating statistics." defect closed normal 2.0.0 default 1.11.2 normal fixed antonio