stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Meyering
I'm planning to release coreutils-8.1 in 10 or 12 hours. Last call for changes. Here's a snapshot of the latest: coreutils snapshot: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz 10 MB http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz 4.2 MB http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz.sig

Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed

2009-11-18 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: > I'm planning to release coreutils-8.1 in 10 or 12 hours. > Last call for changes. Passed Skipped Failed \- Fedora core 5 x86 | 363 48 0 Fedora 11 x86 | 363

Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> I'm planning to release coreutils-8.1 in 10 or 12 hours. >> Last call for changes. > >Passed Skipped Failed > \- > Fedora core 5 x86 | 363 48 0 > F

Re: cp

2009-11-18 Thread Pádraig Brady
Thomas Denker wrote: > Hi there, > > relax, I have not found a bug. But I have two questions > which you may answer easily... > > Does the current version of "cp" make use of the "mmap" > system call to accelerate access to the source or destination > file? I played around with various copy met

Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: >> Jim Meyering wrote: >>> I'm planning to release coreutils-8.1 in 10 or 12 hours. >>> Last call for changes. >> >>Passed Skipped Failed >> \- >> Fedora core 5 x86 | 3

coreutils-8.1 released [stable]

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Meyering
This is to announce coreutils-8.1. We consider it to be "stable" in spite of a few new features, a new program and minor changes in behavior. Eric Blake deserves special thanks for making an impressive number of improvements to the portability and robu

Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed

2009-11-18 Thread Andreas Schwab
FAIL: rm/fail-eperm (exit: 255) === fail-eperm: considering /tmp/. fail-eperm: considering /tmp/.X11-unix fail-eperm: considering /tmp/missings-glibc-devel Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at ./rm/fail-eperm line 88. FAIL: misc/pwd-long (e

Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed

2009-11-18 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Andreas Schwab wrote on 11/18/2009 11:57 PM: FAIL: rm/fail-eperm (exit: 255) === fail-eperm: considering /tmp/. fail-eperm: considering /tmp/.X11-unix fail-eperm: considering /tmp/missings-glibc-devel Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at .

Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed

2009-11-18 Thread Gilles Espinasse
- Original Message - From: "Bauke Jan Douma" To: "Andreas Schwab" Cc: "Pádraig Brady" ; ; "Jim Meyering" Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:35 AM Subject: Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed > Andreas Schwab wrote on 11/18/2009 11:57 PM: > > FAIL: rm/fail-eperm (exit: 2

test-version-etc.sh fails when using the --with-packager-... configure options

2009-11-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
the test-version-etc.sh falls over when configured with: --with-packager=Gentoo --with-packager-version='8.1 (p1)' this isnt a coreutils-8.1 regression ... been like this since the --with- packager-... options were added. FAIL: test-version-etc.sh (exit: 1) === **

Re: test-version-etc.sh fails when using the --with-packager-... configure options

2009-11-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding gnulib] According to Mike Frysinger on 11/18/2009 8:12 PM: > the test-version-etc.sh falls over when configured with: > --with-packager=Gentoo --with-packager-version='8.1 (p1)' > > ! COPYRIGHT Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License

Re: test-version-etc.sh fails when using the --with-packager-... configure options

2009-11-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 22:43:04 Eric Blake wrote: > According to Mike Frysinger on 11/18/2009 8:12 PM: > > the test-version-etc.sh falls over when configured with: > > --with-packager=Gentoo --with-packager-version='8.1 (p1)' > > > > ! COPYRIGHT Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > License G