Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-3 Severity: normal The --time-style=locale option to ls no longer behaves as documented. $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ... $ ls --version ls (GNU coreutils) 6.10 ... $ /bin/ls --time-style=locale -l passwd -rw-r--r--

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Odd. I see that with LC_ALL=en, it *does* work: LC_ALL=en ./ls --time-style=locale -dl / drwxr-xr-x 42 root root 1024 Mar 13 12:02 / Because the en locale does not exist. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux

Re: miscutils

2008-04-06 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 1:19 AM, Pádraig Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has been proposed to start the miscutils project, to include utilities not seen as core to the system. I.E. utilities that are of less general use, but still worth maintaining and distributing. Did this ever get

Re: Feature Request - prepend to file

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Blake wrote: machines. Finally, what syntax did you have in mind? It is probably possible to write a shell script that has that exact same syntax, but uses existing commands, to achieve the task without needing to add a new coreutil. I agree

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
Hi, This can affect invocations of `ls' that don't include an explicit `--time-style=locale', as well, since that is now the default (in absence of a TIME_STYLE environment variable). The only case I can see in the head revision of `ls.c' where the default English time-style is used is when

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This can affect invocations of `ls' that don't include an explicit `--time-style=locale', as well, since that is now the default (in absence of a TIME_STYLE environment variable). The only case I can see in the head revision of `ls.c' where the default

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. That feels pretty kludgy. I hope we end up with something cleaner. Yeah, I suppose so. Short of including `translations' for English, though, what's a better option? BTW, such a patch would almost certainly

Re: [PATCH] Standardize some error messages.

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you received/sent the paper yet? Yep, I sent it out this morning. So how about adding an sc_*** rule for this in maint.mk? I added three so the failure message would reflect

new snapshot available: coreutils-6.10.176-383b1

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
I'd forgotten to pull onto master the remove.c fix for BeOS/Haiku, but more importantly, this snapshot is bootstrapped with the just-tagged autoconf-2.62 (soon to appear on ftp.gnu.org): coreutils snapshot: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz8.8 MB

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I suppose so. Short of including `translations' for English, though, what's a better option? What's the downside to that? Mike Stone Good question. My thought was because there aren't any now, but I guess

Re: [PATCH] Standardize some error messages.

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please use VC_LIST_EXCEPT, so that the checks look only at version-controlled files. That also provides a method for exceptions: see the existing .x-sc_* files. Ah, that's much nicer. Thanks. s/Likwise/Likewise/ ;-)

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: ls --time-style=locale no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:56:19PM -0400, Bo Borgerson wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. That feels pretty kludgy. I hope we end up with something cleaner. Yeah, I suppose so. Short of including `translations' for English, though, what's

Re: [PATCH] add new sort option --xargs (-x)

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
I had a capitalized error message in this patch. I also didn't use a correct commit message format. Thanks Bo From 9a37b547bcc892d1d5e2542c43d77b13497318db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 18:42:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add new sort option

Re: [PATCH] add new sort option --xargs (-x)

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a capitalized error message in this patch. I also didn't use a correct commit message format. Thanks for noticing and correcting. Subject: [PATCH] Add new sort option --files0-from=F * src/sort.c: support new option * tests/misc/sort-files0-from:

Re: [PATCH] add new sort option --xargs (-x)

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: s/texti/texi/ Please use capitals and periods in ChangeLogs. ;-) s/null/NUL/ Split the string. Otherwise, your addition pushes its length beyond a portability limit whose exact number I forget but it's around 500.

Re: miscutils

2008-04-06 Thread Pádraig Brady
James Youngman wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 1:19 AM, Pádraig Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has been proposed to start the miscutils project, to include utilities not seen as core to the system. I.E. utilities that are of less general use, but still worth maintaining and distributing.