http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/46 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2008-06-01T10:15:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/45 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2008-04-19T21:21:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/44 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2008-01-22T21:18:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/43 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2008-01-12T09:14:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/42 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Coreutils version 6.9.91 has been released. This is a bug-fix-only release. There has been unusually few reports of problems with the previous release. I hope this is a trend. If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to start: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/>. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release. For a summary of changes and contributors, see here: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=7477cd16628baefad1bd7848810e7c1e1774a7c0 Here are the compressed sources: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.91.tar.gz (8.7MB) ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.91.tar.lzma (3.6MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.91.tar.gz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.91.tar.lzma.sig If you haven't heard about LZMA yet, see <http://tukaani.org/lzma/>. Since the lzma-compressed tarball is 2MB smaller than the .bz2 one, and since it decompresses twice as fast, I no longer create bzip2- compressed tarballs. [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify coreutils-6.9.91.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys B9AB9A16 and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.61a.329-8fab Automake 1.10a Bison 2.3a Gnulib sources from git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib with this SHA1: 9375b5de11b41023fc2b9a8c43bf445f02ca1f76 ***************** How can you help? ***************** If you're interested in lending a hand, or just want to use the latest versions right now, you can build these programs and run the test suite like this: gzip -dc coreutils-6.9.91.tar.gz | tar xf - cd coreutils-6.9.91 ./configure make make -k check >& log grep FAIL log Be sure to use make's -k option so that make doesn't stop just because one of the earlier tests fails. Please report any build problems or test failures to the bug-coreutils-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org mailing list. There are detailed instructions in the `Reporting bugs:' section of the README file. For further reading, see the coreutils home page http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ and the FAQ list: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/ ***************** NEWS ***************** * Noteworthy changes in release 6.9.91 (2007-12-15) [beta] ** Bug fixes "ls -l" would not output "+" on SELinux hosts unless -Z was also given. "rm" would fail to unlink a non-directory when run in an environment in which the user running rm is capable of unlinking a directory. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.9] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBR2PnQNd//eG5q5oWAQJHVBAAo6IKa2R9imiiSH5opO/lLUjW8sEAKJiT UVvcOLxXkAmsF7rP5iuw/fEzrdIJNPtIBdf8nWF+7QavrC+Mh74FuPhDka+Z9r1i 7nkKjWV6TG8uCGlI1GuEiNqxp/cIaijVrsyIGk4xV9tJqtVblfoDZIbYV8kw3o9l qjuGQRX/tvdTCcUZ2EEyLz412Q53kwBES4MvDhFnn5fB2+xQaP84REHQlwI+Dfhu Zcu+CXSJi3mG7O6IVuY8JdHazK+75Y4oC76VncFBDZYeuVBz+BjlthEbJa9y/Mpk zn1xof85yH5QGQNcVxYBgo9vyM2h3FLSpJ+r5FwcJHCf6GOYRHvDexOLiAZ+NVjx AkAaVAlBg3qsGOm/7v62Tr8ce3ZrBO2VZt/6xcIsXrgnIeeFnu/VSi3cXjCD4asf ByPtTXwl1Yaf/sPdO5Dhfz4rXVi/+lNa9TRiSv+lQ+sIYQDM75xlFdWaHKaUeJyb E8O6g3KtIT5AEGSIlfa6omdpvkLt2TkUUcBHHSu7hSrV3jNqOlCDvoS7mop4FcAd 1ciSjMlcXLj8SJggsNJCi7YHkAczGrNxWBLTUwvs5jUXurCL8pRRFOgVtNeR6l5Y IXE+mb/FAYk49CMgW/s1lo/VLizkQUzQ+q6Os00QnFnAzKvuL73Kc2B2AgQjYssz /lwoZUAZRdo= =fTnc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Jim Meyering 2007-12-15T14:39:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/41 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2007-12-02T10:24:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/40 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Coreutils version 6.9 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix-only release. If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to start: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/>. The previous stable release was 6.7, on Dec 8, 2006. Then there was a nearly-stable 6.8 release on Feb 24, 2007. Since 6.8 was a test release, I've included its NEWS entries below, along with the few for 6.9. Thanks to all of the people who have contributed patches, suggestions, and bug reports. Their names are listed in the ChangeLog files. A lot of coreutils' portability infrastructure comes from gnulib, <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib>, so ChangeLog entries for the vast majority of files in lib/ and m4/ are no longer included here. P.S., I'm considering no longer distributing .xdelta difference files. If you use those files, please send a message to the bug-coreutils mailing list. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.gz (7.9MB) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2 (5.2MB) Here are the xdelta-style diffs: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.7-6.9.xdelta (916KB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.gz.sig ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2.sig Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: 62032af4d79cd99743e06d5c40c4989c coreutils-6.9.tar.gz c9607d8495f16e98906e7ed2d9751a06 coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2 e220fb14f517790bc08d692eeb81a6e9 coreutils-6.7-6.9.xdelta 41c36653f6e9a4a1c086c78ac293ede8cf86beb1 coreutils-6.9.tar.gz 10310a78c4e1d9f742f3815ac28e9bf1086a5885 coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2 a8e7b62a0f62fdccf451af854bbda0009d285204 coreutils-6.7-6.9.xdelta [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify coreutils-6.9.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys D333CBA1 and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.61a Automake 1.10 Bison 2.3a CVS Gnulib sources from 2007-03-22 08:05:40 +0000 ***************** How can you help? ***************** If you're interested in lending a hand, or just want to use the latest versions right now, you can build these programs and run the test suite like this: gzip -dc coreutils-6.9.tar.gz | tar xf - cd coreutils-6.9 ./configure make make -k check >& log grep FAIL log Be sure to use make's -k option so that make doesn't stop just because one of the earlier tests fails. Please report any build problems or test failures to the bug-coreutils-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org mailing list. There are detailed instructions in the `Reporting bugs:' section of the README file. For further reading, see the coreutils home page http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ and the FAQ list: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/ ***************** NEWS ***************** * Noteworthy changes in release 6.9 (2007-03-22) [stable] ** Bug fixes cp -x (--one-file-system) would fail to set mount point permissions The default block size and output format for df -P are now unaffected by the DF_BLOCK_SIZE, BLOCK_SIZE, and BLOCKSIZE environment variables. It is still affected by POSIXLY_CORRECT, though. Using pr -m -s (i.e. merging files, with TAB as the output separator) no longer inserts extraneous spaces between output columns. * Noteworthy changes in release 6.8 (2007-02-24) [not-unstable] ** Bug fixes chgrp, chmod, and chown now honor the --preserve-root option. Before, they would warn, yet continuing traversing and operating on /. chmod no longer fails in an environment (e.g., a chroot) with openat support but with insufficient /proc support. "cp --parents F/G D" no longer creates a directory D/F when F is not a directory (and F/G is therefore invalid). "cp --preserve=mode" would create directories that briefly had too-generous permissions in some cases. For example, when copying a directory with permissions 777 the destination directory might temporarily be setgid on some file systems, which would allow other users to create subfiles with the same group as the directory. Fix similar problems with 'install' and 'mv'. cut no longer dumps core for usage like "cut -f2- f1 f2" with two or more file arguments. This was due to a double-free bug, introduced in coreutils-5.3.0. dd bs= operands now silently override any later ibs= and obs= operands, as POSIX and tradition require. "ls -FRL" always follows symbolic links on Linux. Introduced in coreutils-6.0. A cross-partition "mv /etc/passwd ~" (by non-root) now prints a reasonable diagnostic. Before, it would print this: "mv: cannot remove `/etc/passwd': Not a directory". pwd and "readlink -e ." no longer fail unnecessarily when a parent directory is unreadable. "rm -rf /etc/passwd" (run by non-root) now prints a diagnostic. Before it would print nothing. "rm --interactive=never F" no longer prompts for an unwritable F ** New features sort's new --compress-program=PROG option specifies a compression program to use when writing and reading temporary files. This can help save both time and disk space when sorting large inputs. sort accepts the new option -C, which acts like -c except no diagnostic is printed. Its --check option now accepts an optional argument, and --check=quiet and --check=silent are now aliases for -C, while --check=diagnose-first is an alias for -c or plain --check. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGAwik/dLerNMzy6ERApiPAJ9KmCy1YwTM37Np54WD1ZkGOpF/GQCg1JeQ SAIgyh/1LD4pSnQMO7q7ePs= =Bvqk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Jim Meyering 2007-03-22T22:51:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/39 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2007-02-25T00:07:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/38 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2006-12-07T23:37:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/37 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2006-11-22T14:24:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/36 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2006-11-19T17:10:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/35 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2006-10-22T23:09:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/35 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2006-10-22T23:09:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/34 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2006-09-30T18:21:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/33 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2006-09-18T09:33:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/32 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2006-08-19T21:54:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/31 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2006-08-15T15:27:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/30 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2006-06-24T09:55:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/29 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2006-05-22T11:25:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/28 _______________________________________________ Coreutils-announce mailing list Coreutils-announce-mXXj517/zsQ< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce Jim Meyering 2006-05-13T13:48:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/27 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The GNU coreutils package contains the following programs: [ basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold ginstall groups head hostid hostname id join kill link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nice nl nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir seq sha1sum shred sleep sort split stat stty su sum sync tac tail tee test touch tr true tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink uptime users vdir wc who whoami yes The coreutils package replaces/unifies the fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages. This is a stable release, in spite of the `feature changes' below. For a summary of changes since 5.93, see below. Thanks to everyone else who contributed changes (attributions are in the ChangeLog files), reported problems, and helped by fielding questions on the mailing list. Here are the compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.94.tar.gz (7.6MB) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.94.tar.bz2 (4.9MB) Here are the xdelta-style diffs: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.93-5.94.xdelta (645KB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.94.tar.gz.sig ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.94.tar.bz2.sig Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: fbb01f04e57edd8ae003db3bcd49f86a coreutils-5.94.tar.gz 11985c8345371546da8ff13f7efae359 coreutils-5.94.tar.bz2 7a891edca98aed8c1ddedf1d8cbb5f4b coreutils-5.93-5.94.xdelta 243a9c1b65877246e7d9d21d87c21cb35e90ef63 coreutils-5.94.tar.gz c39add02995304e1cf3dfc8543702f22155fba50 coreutils-5.94.tar.bz2 0a4ef4e0da3cfade03c1bd141e9a5e8e466ddb0b coreutils-5.93-5.94.xdelta [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify coreutils-5.94.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys D333CBA1 and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. NEWS * Major changes in release 5.94 (2006-02-13) [stable] ** Feature changes df now considers "none" and "proc" file systems to be dummies and therefore does not normally display them. Also, inaccessible file systems (which can be caused by shadowed mount points or by chrooted bind mounts) are now dummies, too. stat's --format=FMT option now works the way it did before 5.3.0: FMT is automatically newline terminated. The first stable release containing this change was 5.92. stat accepts the new option --printf=PFMT, where PFMT is *not* automatically newline terminated. Backslash escapes in PFMT *are* interpreted. stat: backslash escapes are interpreted in a format string specified via --printf=FMT, but not one specified via --format=FMT. That includes octal (\ooo, at most three octal digits), hexadecimal (\xhh, one or two hex digits), and the standard sequences (\a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, \", \\). ** Bug fixes When `cp -RL' encounters the same directory more than once in the hierarchy beneath a single command-line argument, it no longer confuses them with hard-linked directories. fts-using tools (chmod, chown, chgrp, du) no longer fail due to a double-free bug -- it could be triggered by making a directory inaccessible while e.g., du is traversing the hierarchy under it. fts-using tools (chmod, chown, chgrp, du) no longer misinterpret a very long symlink chain as a dangling symlink. Before, such a misinterpretation would cause these tools not to diagnose an ELOOP error. sort would fail for large inputs (~50MB) on systems with a buggy mkstemp function. sort and tac now use the replacement mkstemp function, and hence are no longer subject to limitations (of 26 or 32, on the maximum number of files from a given template) on HP-UX 10.20, SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.5.1 and OSF1/Tru64 V4.0F&V5.1. tail -f once again works on a file with the append-only attribute (affects at least Linux ext2, ext3, xfs file systems) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD8Yfn/dLerNMzy6ERAraAAKDBodLL2w/Dk4urlM6luQX/TW0uHwCgjdHK YZZ80B4jtypxQucwvCls3KY= =mb22 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Jim Meyering 2006-02-14T07:33:54 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce