bug#18328: can't say date -d '8pm -0500' though other combos work

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 18328 confirmed retitle 18328 date: '8pm -0500' is invalid (am/pm problem) stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 25/08/14 10:01 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: $ date -d '8pm -0500' date: invalid date ‘8pm -0500’ <--why can't this combo work? This is indeed a bug (specifically in gnulib's

bug#18119: df --si misleading output units

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 18119 wontfix severity 18119 wishlist close 18119 stop (triaging old bugs) On 04/08/14 08:07 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: Kernc wrote: Since `--block-size=GB` outputs the value in GB, and 'GB' is the unit appended, why doesn't `--si` do the same (use SI-units to mark "SI-magnitude" values)?

bug#18056: Coreutils 8.23 test-localename failure

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 18056 ntoabug close 18056 stop (triaging old bugs) On 21/07/14 04:10 AM, Henrik Juul Pedersen wrote: [...] When compiling coreutils 8.22 on 2014-03-14 the tests succeeded. So whatever changed must be outside of coreutils. Given the above, and without further comments in 4 years, I'm

bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using installp

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 17774 notabug close 17774 stop (triaging old bugs) On 18/06/14 12:30 PM, Michael Felt wrote: revisted my 8.15 package in detail. Seems that two years ago I had already done something special for coreutils - so my apology - not a bug, just something in the way. I will find a way to make it

bug#17669: Fwd: Re: Solaris acl woes

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
(triaging old bugs) Hello, This bug ( https://bugs.gnu.org/17669 ) deals with ACL test failures on Solaris for coreutils 8.22 . Shortly after the release of 8.22 (but few months before this bug was submitted), Bernard pushed this: commit 5d7591d0edf0dd31c2daa195ee766c1383b89f4c Author:

bug#17252: 'install' is too noisy when running as confined SELinux user

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 17252 notabug close 17252 stop (triaging old bugs) On 13/04/14 12:14 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 04/12/2014 05:23 PM, Enrico Scholz wrote: when working as a confined SELinux user, 'install' gives out | $ install X Y | install: warning: Y: failed to change context to

bug#17161: date: confusing: "TIME -/+NUM" treated as time zone

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 17161 wishlist retitle 17161 date: confusing: "TIME -/+NUM" treated as time zone stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 02/04/14 05:27 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/02/2014 02:17 AM, Marc R.J. Brevoort wrote: The more days I subtract, the more hours are added. If this were a time zone

bug#16756: Errors in LFS 5.18

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 16756 moreinfo retitle 16756 test failures with coreutils / LFS 5.18 close 16756 stop (triaging old bugs) On 15/02/14 07:56 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 02/14/2014 08:54 PM, Prasad Kumbhar wrote: Respected Sir, I was performing the coreutils chapter and gave the command make

bug#16669: inconsistent 'rm -ir' prompting behavior

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
(triaging old bugs) Eric, Pádraig, On 06/02/14 10:44 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 02/06/2014 04:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On today's Austin Group call, we discussed http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=802 regarding 'rm' behavior. Was there ever a resolution (or a committed fix) for the

bug#16304: Upcoming clang-3.4 apparently miscompiles coreutils.

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 16304 notabug close 16304 stop (triaging old bugs) This clang-3.4 bug has been fixed some time ago (and it's not a coreutils bug). Closing. -assaf

bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hi Bernhard, On 19/10/18 04:56 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 10/19/18 10:48 PM, Martin Schulte wrote: The '-a FILE' primary is supported since "the beginning", and even the POSIX spec mentions this unlucky thing: [...] I don't think we can remove that primary without breaking some scripts,

bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

2018-10-19 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 10/19/18 10:48 PM, Martin Schulte wrote: > Hello coreutils maintainers, > > test in coreutils 8.30 supports the unary -a test (is the same as -e) but > this is not listed on the manpage (in bash 4.4.12 "help test" does list > it). > > I can imagine good reasons to kick out the unary -a but I

bug#15257: stat and df report different filesystems for /dev

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 15257 wishlist tags 15257 wontfix close 15257 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 11/07/14 03:31 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 09/03/2013 02:50 PM, C de-Avillez wrote: original Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1219529 When trying to use 'df -x tmpfs', /dev is still shown:

bug#12303: [MICROBUG]: gnulib doesn't add lib/spawn.h to .gitignore?

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 12303 fixed close 12303 stop (triaging old bugs) On 29/08/12 05:33 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: In GNU coreutils, the gnulib-provided 'bootstrap' script fails to add the generated file 'lib/spawn.h' to the .gitignore in 'lib/': $ ./bootstrap && ./configure && make ... [all is OK]

bug#14971: split man page table mushed

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14971 fixed close 14971 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 27/07/13 06:43 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.21-1 File: /usr/share/man/man1/split.1.gz [...] becomes CHUNKS may be: N split into N files based on size of input K/N output

bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

2018-10-19 Thread Martin Schulte
Hello coreutils maintainers, test in coreutils 8.30 supports the unary -a test (is the same as -e) but this is not listed on the manpage (in bash 4.4.12 "help test" does list it). I can imagine good reasons to kick out the unary -a but I think it then should be kicked out of program and man page

bug#33096: [INSTALLED] ln: avoid directory hard-link races

2018-10-19 Thread Paul Eggert
Previously, 'ln A B' did 'stat("B"), lstat("A"), link("A","B")' where the stat and lstat were necessary to avoid hard-linking directories on systems that can hard-link directories. Now, in situations that prohibit hard links to directories, 'ln A B' merely does 'link("A","B")'. The new behavior

bug#10020: cp -i -l asks for permission to overwrite then fails to do so

2018-10-19 Thread Paul Eggert
On 10/15/18 7:44 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: Discussion can continue by replying to this thread. This particular bug report seemed valid, and the fix was simple so I installed it into coreutils master via the attached patches (the first one merely updates to the current Gnulib). >From

bug#14649: Problems in chroot.2, ln.1, ptx.1, test.1, [.1

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
merge 14649 31803 tags 14649 fixed close 14649 stop (triaging old bugs) ln.1 and test.1 fixed here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=de73c801f34438c1457118f33e26e688554019d3 closing. -assaf

bug#14628: mv command (and suggesting a feature for it)

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 14628 wishlist retitle 14628 mv: safeguard against renaming dir with open files close 14628 stop (triaging old bugs) On 15/06/13 05:35 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/15/2013 09:02 PM, S. Dara wrote: With this email, I would like to suggest a feature for the mv command. I believe

bug#14618: Erroneous sparse copy command results in empty file

2018-10-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 14618 cp: erroneous sparse copy command results in empty file close 14618 stop (triaging old bugs) On 14/06/13 02:03 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/14/2013 12:35 PM, Koen De Wit wrote: When trying to create a sparse copy of a file on a different filesystem you get an "Invalid