On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:53:38PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "truncate". > > * Package name : truncate > Version : 2007.03.13-1 > Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (myself) > * URL : http://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/truncate/ > * License : Two-clause BSD > Section : utils > > It builds these binary packages: > truncate - FreeBSD utility to truncate or extend the size of files > > The truncate utility adjusts the length of each regular file given on the > command-line. This package is simply a redistribution of the utility as > found in the FreeBSD base system. > . > Homepage: http://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/truncate/ > > The package is lintian clean.
Very frankly, this should go into coreutils. Having a package alone for an utility that is probably less than 100 lines of C, and that can be replaced by a single line perl script (and i'm not talking about these ugly one-liners) is a bit too much. OTOH, I've always wondered why coreutils didn't have an utility for ftruncate(). If licensing is a problem, it could be reimplemented very easily. Writing a wrapper around ftruncate() is not very difficult. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]