Re: Make coretutils work better with SELinux.

2012-11-01 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/2012 08:54 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 10/30/2012 02:43 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For some reason I could not get git to take more then a one line comment. This is the comment I was trying

[PATCH] tests: fix syntax error in setuidgid_has_perm_

2012-11-01 Thread Bernhard Voelker
Somehow in between the discussion about Various tests give illusory results http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-08/msg00082.html a syntax error snuck into the sed expression in setuidgid_has_perm_. Several root tests have been skipped although they could and should have been run.

Re: Make coretutils work better with SELinux.

2012-11-01 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/2012 11:47 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 11/01/2012 01:20 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/2012 08:54 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 10/30/2012 02:43 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: Make coretutils work better with SELinux.

2012-11-01 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/01/2012 06:42 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/2012 11:47 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 11/01/2012 01:20 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/2012 08:54 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 10/30/2012

bug#12772: date : Bug in handling human readable dates

2012-11-01 Thread Nemo Maelstrom Thorx
Coincidentally, I found this bug just today also, and whilst I acknowledge the workarounds if the only thing you need is the month, sometimes you need the relative position within the month also. I would suggest that the end of march's -1month would more intuitively map to the end of february,

bug#12730: coreutils-8.20: FAIL: tests/du/bind-mount-dir-cycle.sh

2012-11-01 Thread Andrew Warshall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi- I'm getting the same thing, with no chroot in the picture. That is, after mkdir -p a/b and mount --bind a a/b then the relevant line of /etc/mtab looks like testing dir/a testing dir/a/b none rw,bind 0 0 Is having /etc/mtab a regular

bug#12778: Failure when running check-root make target

2012-11-01 Thread Matt Burgess
Hi, When running 'make NON_ROOT_USERNAME=nobody check-root' on coreutils-8.20, I get: CCLD test-xvasprintf CC test-yesno.o CCLD test-yesno make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/burgessm/sources/coreutils-8.20/gnulib-tests' make check-TESTS make[6]: Entering directory

bug#12783: info for sort has an illogical example

2012-11-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This is just a quibble, but I'm really wanting to understand locales and sort. In the footnotes of the info page for sort invocation, I find the following in a footnote: (reformatted and numbered) A, In that case, set the `LC_ALL' environment variable to `C'. B. Note that setting only