I'd like to test coreutils but cannot find the docs for how to install a test version. Sorry, but I don't see anything in setup.exe that would facilitate installing a test version, seems I recall that test versions were available to install via setup.
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 9:43 PM Cygwin coreutils Co-Maintainer <brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote: > > The following test package has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: > > * coreutils 9.0 > > GNU core utilities (includes fileutils, shellutils and textutils) > > Common core utilities include: [ arch b2sum base32 base64 > basename cat chcon chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date > dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold > gkill groups head hostid id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir > mkfifo mknod mktemp mv nice nl nohup nproc numfmt od paste pathchk pinky > pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink realpath rm rmdir runcon seq sha1sum > sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf sleep sort split stat > stdbuf stty sum sync tac tail tee test timeout touch tr true truncate > tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes > > Please test these Base category utilities as extensively as possible > (especially if you are a Cygwin package maintainer) as this package is > used in all installations and the latest test release had issues. > I have it locally installed so it is used by commands, scripts, > cron jobs, and cygport builds, so it has and is getting frequent > exercise with no apparent issues so far. > If no issues are reported within a couple of weeks the package will be > upgraded to current. > > For more information, see the project home pages: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils > https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils > > In case of doubts about changes, it may be useful to check the FAQ or Gotchas: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html > https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html > > For changes since the previous Cygwin release, see below or read > /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS after installation; for complete details see: > > https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/v9.0/NEWS > https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=log;h=refs/tags/v9.0 > /usr/share/doc/coreutils/ChangeLog > > > Noteworthy changes in release 9.0 (2021-09-24) > > Bug fixes > > * chmod -v no longer misreports modes of dangling symlinks. > [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0] > > * cp -a --attributes-only now never removes destination files, > even if the destination files are hardlinked, or the source > is a non regular file. > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6] > > * csplit --suppress-matched now elides the last matched line > when a specific number of pattern matches are performed. > [bug introduced with the --suppress-matched feature in coreutils-8.22] > > * df no longer outputs duplicate remote mounts in the presence of bind mounts. > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.26] > > * df no longer mishandles command-line args that it pre-mounts > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.29] > > * du no longer crashes on XFS file systems when the directory hierarchy is > heavily changed during the run. > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.25] > > * env -S no longer crashes when given unusual whitespace characters > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.30] > > * expr no longer mishandles unmatched \(...\) in regular expressions. > [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0] > > * ls no longer crashes when printing the SELinux context for unstatable files. > [bug introduced in coreutils-6.9.91] > > * mkdir -m no longer mishandles modes more generous than the umask. > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.22] > > * nl now handles single character --section-delimiter arguments, > by assuming a second ':' character has been specified, as specified by > POSIX. > [This bug was present in "the beginning".] > > * pr again adjusts tabs in input, to maintain alignment in multi column > output. > [bug introduced in coreutils-6.9] > > * rm no longer skips an extra file when the removal of an empty directory > fails. > [bug introduced by the rewrite to use fts in coreutils-8.0] > > * split --number=K/N will again correctly split chunk K of N to stdout. > Previously a chunk starting after 128KiB, output the wrong part of the file. > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.26] > > * tail -f no longer overruns a stack buffer when given too many files > to follow and ulimit -n exceeds 1024. > [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5] > > * tr no longer crashes when using --complement with certain > invalid combinations of case character classes. > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6] > > * basenc --base64 --decode no longer silently discards decoded characters > on (1024*5) buffer boundaries > [bug introduced in coreutils-8.31] > > Changes in behavior > > * cp and install now default to copy-on-write (COW) if available. > > * cp, install and mv now use the copy_file_range syscall if available. > Also, they use lseek+SEEK_HOLE rather than ioctl+FS_IOC_FIEMAP on sparse > files, as lseek is simpler and more portable. > > * On GNU/Linux systems, ls no longer issues an error message on a > directory merely because it was removed. This reverts a change > that was made in release 8.32. > > * ptx -T no longer attempts to substitute old-fashioned TeX escapes > for 8-bit non-ASCII alphabetic characters. TeX indexes should > instead use '\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}' or equivalent. > > * stat will use decomposed (major,minor) device numbers in its default format. > This is less ambiguous, and more consistent with ls. > > * sum [-r] will output a file name, even if only a single name is passed. > This is consistent with sum -s, cksum, and other sum(1) implementations. > > New Features > > * cksum now supports the -a (--algorithm) option to select any > of the existing sum, md5sum, b2sum, sha*sum implementations etc. > cksum now subsumes all of these programs, and coreutils > will introduce no future standalone checksum utility. > > * cksum -a now supports the 'sm3' argument, to use the SM3 digest algorithm. > > * cksum --check now supports auto detecting the digest type to use, > when verifying tagged format checksums. > > * expr and factor now support bignums on all platforms. > > * ls --classify now supports the "always", "auto", or "never" flags, > to support only outputting classifier characters if connected to a tty. > > * ls now accepts the --sort=width option, to sort by file name width. > This is useful to more compactly organize the default vertical column > output. > > * ls now accepts the --zero option, to terminate each output line with > NUL instead of newline. > > * nl --line-increment can now take a negative number to decrement the count. > > * stat supports more formats for representing decomposed device numbers. > %Hd,%Ld and %Hr,%Lr will output major,minor device numbers and device types > respectively. %d corresponds to st_dev and %r to std_rdev. > > Improvements > > * cat --show-ends will now show \r\n as ^M$. Previously the \r was taken > literally, thus overwriting the first character in the line with '$'. > > * cksum [-a crc] is now up to 4 times faster by using a slice by 8 algorithm, > and at least 8 times faster where pclmul instructions are supported. > A new --debug option will indicate if pclmul is being used. > > * md5sum --check now supports checksum files with CRLF line endings. > This also applies to cksum, sha*sum, and b2sum. > > * df now recognizes these file systems as remote: > acfs, coda, fhgfs, gpfs, ibrix, ocfs2, and vxfs. > > * rmdir now clarifies the error if a symlink_to_dir/ has not been traversed. > This is the case on GNU/Linux systems, where the trailing slash is ignored. > > * stat and tail now know about the "devmem", "exfat", "secretmem", "vboxsf", > and "zonefs" file system types. stat -f -c%T now reports the file system > type, and tail -f uses polling for "vboxsf" and inotify for the others. > > * timeout now supports sub-second timeouts on macOS. > > * wc is up to 5 times faster when counting only new line characters, > where avx2 instructions are supported. > A new --debug option will indicate if avx2 is being used. > > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
