Bug#393283: RFC: change chown *not* to look up numeric user/group names

2006-10-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: In http://bugs.debian.org/393283, Helge Hafting objected to the fact that GNU chown performs a DB look-up for a numeric user name, e.g., in chown 0 FILE. chown does this deliberately, in case 0 is an actual user *name*, that is associated potentially, with some numeric

Bug#393283: RFC: change chown *not* to look up numeric user/group names

2006-10-20 Thread Pádraig Brady
Andreas Schwab wrote: Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess it's a case of numeric usernames are stupid vs will it break something. I don't see much reason *not* to be posix compliant in this case, though. Perhaps there should just be an option to force the numeric name to be

Bug#393283: RFC: change chown *not* to look up numeric user/group names

2006-10-20 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: Do you know if they still do that? Just checked and yes they do. Also it was mentioned on a local list that mobile phone companies all over the world that use Linux as a messaging platform, use the mobile number as the username. If numeric user names are still common

Bug#397046: fslint: [INTL:sv] Swedish translation updated

2006-11-05 Thread Pádraig Brady
Daniel Nylander wrote: Package: fslint Severity: wishlist Tags: patch l10n Here is the updated Swedish translation for fslint. I was unable to find the mail address to the author on his webpage Thanks very much! I'll merge that in ASAP. Note http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ has a link

Bug#489597: [fslint] fslint: patch for bashism issue

2008-08-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
I've already addressed this in 2.27 I'll try and release this ASAP. thanks, Pádraig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#489597: [fslint] fslint: patch for bashism issue

2008-09-17 Thread Pádraig Brady
Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 10:22 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: I've already addressed this in 2.27 I'll try and release this ASAP. Any news on that? :) The new package is languishing on mentors as usual: http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-packages?action

Bug#448882: depends on bc

2008-02-04 Thread Pádraig Brady
CSights wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.24-1 Severity: normal Fixed in the soon to be released 2.26 (I changed the bc using shell script, to a python script). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#383916: why not apply the patch

2007-11-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
My CD generation script failed on my new debian system thanks to this bug (which wasted a few hours of my time). Others have noticed issues too: http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20071019.231157.17bdefe4.en.html Why not apply the patch from the original poster of this bug? Pádraig.

Bug#446326: fslint: 'fix_ws.sh' bash-ism error: [: 10: ==: unexpected operator

2007-10-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
A. Costa wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.24-1 Severity: normal My default shell is 'dash'. Select 'Redundant whitespace', pick a file to 'Clean' and the status boxes below report: 0 items cleaned (0 bytes saved) [: 10: ==: unexpected operator Argh that gets me every

Bug#448882: depends on bc

2007-11-01 Thread Pádraig Brady
CSights wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.24-1 Severity: normal Hello, fslint depends on bc because the script dupwaste (part of the fslint package) calls it. Below is the script in its entirety: Hmm, I might just remove that script altogether, or integrate it into findup

Bug#413907: please enhance fslint's description so it will be easier to find in synaptic

2007-03-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jason Spiro wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.16-1 Severity: trivial I wanted a GTK disk space cleaning tool. But Synaptic couldn't find me one. (I had searched in synaptic for the term: disk space) All I found was kleansweep, which is KDE-based. It would be great if you enhanced

Bug#426522: findup: xdev option after a non-option argument

2007-05-29 Thread Pádraig Brady
Kai S. Juse wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.16-1 Severity: normal When using findup with additional options that are passed on to find(1), I get the following message: $ /usr/share/fslint/fslint/findup -m . -name .svn -prune -o find: warning: you have specified the -xdev option

Bug#245017: some notes

2007-04-17 Thread Pádraig Brady
Just a few points that I figured out about running tftp-hpa on sarge which were not explained in the bug. The tftpd-hpa man page states that the server should be set to run as the user with the lowest possible privilege It's OK (and necessary) to get inetd to run in.tftpd as root though, as

Bug#379999: fslint: documentation for some GUI elements kindly requested

2006-07-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
Rogério Brito wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.16-1 Severity: minor Hi, Pádraig. After I asked your question regarding the differences between fslint and fdupes and saw that fslint got uploaded to Debian, I was quite happy to install it. Unfortunately, I some items of the GUI are

Bug#380208: fslint: some progress indication would be fine

2006-07-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
Eike Sauer wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.16-1 Severity: wishlist This program really should have some progress indication when searching, like a progress bar or filling (and showing) the list of finds or both. I had to ask 'top' if the app is still alive... :o) Well a % complete

Bug#469525: coreutils: [wc] RFC: Add option --no-filename

2008-03-06 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jari Aalto wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-3 Severity: wishlist Description: $ wc -l README 200 README This is fine for interactive use, but not convenient in shell scripts, Options are bad because of the extra complexity presented to users. Currently wc only

Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files

2008-02-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I have a file that is 2G in size but wish to discard the last 1G of data then there seems to be no program available to do this. I think it would be ideal to have a program as part of coreutils that allows you to resize a file.

Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files

2008-02-26 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you don't mind truncating first, how about this? true /var/spool/whatever/foo dd bs=1 seek=2G of=/var/spool/whatever/foo /dev/null Also, the latter command works even if the former

Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files

2008-02-26 Thread Pádraig Brady
Russell Coker wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008 21:03, Pádraig Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends on your definition of works. If you don't mind retaining the first 2GiB of content in a preexisting output file, then it works fine. But the initial truncation is required if you want

Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files

2008-03-26 Thread Pádraig Brady
Proposed truncate command attached From 34b9bc72ffe70ec83710b12021e889d5ae65e508 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:03:31 + Subject: [PATCH] Add new program: truncate * AUTHORS: Register as the author. * NEWS: Mention

Bug#548685: fslint: [manual] please describe individual command line utils briefly

2009-09-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jari Aalto wrote: Package: fslint SUGGESTION These small applications are very useful when run on command line in an environment without GUI. Please list the programs in the manual page and briefly describe what each one of them does. OK I'll add something like the output to `fslint

Bug#548693: fslint: Included shell scripts do not require /bin/bash

2009-09-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jari Aalto wrote: Package: fslint SUGGESTION All the scripts are marked with /bin/bash, but they in fact seem to be POSIX compatile (dash, but also posh compatible). Please change first lines to: #!/bin/sh Nope, I'm trying to make them portable but currently there are subtle

Bug#548699: fslint: findbl - Incorrect option handling

2009-09-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jari Aalto wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.40-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch The options are not removed, so they got passed to find(1) call. The following patch fixes this. Correction is against SVN 238. as per http://code.google.com/p/fslint/source/checkout Nope, getfpf resets the

Bug#548699: fslint: findbl - Incorrect option handling

2009-09-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jari Aalto wrote: Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com writes: Jari Aalto wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.40-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch The options are not removed, so they got passed to find(1) call. The following patch fixes this. Correction is against SVN 238. as per http

Bug#548693: fslint: Included shell scripts do not require /bin/bash

2009-09-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jari Aalto wrote: Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com writes: Jari Aalto wrote: Package: fslint SUGGESTION All the scripts are marked with /bin/bash, but they in fact seem to be POSIX compatile (dash, but also posh compatible). Please change first lines to: #!/bin/sh Nope, I'm

Bug#548787: [PATCH] fslint: Use POSIX standard command substitution

2009-09-29 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jari Aalto wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.40-2 Severity: wishlist POSIX standard provides the $(...) command substitution syntax, which improves legibility and allows nested structures. Please consider applying the attached patch. Applied with modifications.

Bug#608255: bc uses uninitialized memory

2010-12-29 Thread Pádraig Brady
Package: bc Version: 1.06.95 Tags: patch bc depends on uninitialized mem: echo e(1) | MALLOC_PERTURB_=1 bc -l echo e(1) | MALLOC_PERTURB_=0 bc -l 2.71828182845904523536 This fixes it: --- storage.c.orig 2010-12-21 19:43:14.663540110 + +++ storage.c 2010-12-21 19:42:01.392540111

Bug#614376: pcscd: fails to work (with castles SCT card reader)

2011-03-01 Thread Pádraig Brady
I upgraded from 1.6.4 to 1.6.7 and... pcscd logs end with: readerfactory.c:1301:RFWaitForReaderInit() Waiting init for reader: CASTLES EZ710PU 00 01 Clients are blocked like: futex(0x2c6260, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL... Note this device presents 2 readers. 00 00 = smartcard, 00 01 = rfid

Bug#609049: [coreutils] Re: Bug#609049: du: process_file: Assertion `level == prev_level - 1' failed

2011-01-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/01/11 22:05, Jim Meyering wrote: diff --git a/tests/du/move-dir-while-traversing b/tests/du/move-dir-while-traversing +# We use a python-inotify script, so... +python -m pyinotify -h /dev/null \ + || skip_ 'python-inotify package not installed' A small point is that error is a bit

Bug#518696: coreutils parallel enhancements

2009-12-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
Just a note to say recent coreutils include an `nproc` command which you can use like: xargs -P$(nroc) xargs -P$(nroc --ignore=1) Also I've updated md5sum, sha1sum, ... to output their lines atomically, so they're not interspersed. cheers, Pádraig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#503232: fslint: [INTL:de] initial German po file translation

2008-10-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Package: fslint Severity: wishlist Tags: patch l10n Please find the initial German po file translation for fslint attached. If you update your template, please use 'msgfmt --statistics pofile.po' to check the po-files for fuzzy or untranslated strings. If

Bug#569020: coreutils: failure of install-C test on GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-02-10 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/02/10 19:56, Michael Stone wrote: Figures that I get completely different results with kfreebsd 8 kernel. (Presumably the install test isn't an issue because my user doesn't have multiple groups--will still look at that.) tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2 fails, which I'm not even sure is

Bug#569020: coreutils: failure of install-C test on GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-02-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/02/10 02:14, Michael Stone wrote: FAIL: tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2 (exit: 1) == tail: `f' has become inaccessible: No such file or directory ./tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2: line 34: kill: (13733) - No such process ./tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2: line

Bug#569020: coreutils: failure of install-C test on GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-02-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/02/10 10:29, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 11/02/10 02:14, Michael Stone wrote: FAIL: tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2 (exit: 1) == tail: `f' has become inaccessible: No such file or directory ./tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2: line 34: kill: (13733

Bug#563118: du cannot sort its output without help from other programs

2009-12-30 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 30/12/09 23:35, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.1-1 Severity: wishlist I wanted to do this: Give sizes of each files and directories located in $PWD in human-readable-format AND sort output according to sizes of those files and directories. Formerly I did it like

Bug#489597: [fslint] fslint: patch for bashism issue

2009-07-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
Raphael Geissert wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2008 04:08:53 Pádraig Brady wrote: Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 10:22 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: I've already addressed this in 2.27 I'll try and release this ASAP. Any news on that? :) The new package is languishing

Bug#580492: bug#6124: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

2010-05-06 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 06/05/10 12:15, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hi, I've reported the following bug in the Debian BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580492 With the basename and dirname utilities from GNU Coreutils, one has: ypig% POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 basename -- basename: missing

Bug#511806: fslint: man page on how to use the command line tools in the package

2009-01-14 Thread Pádraig Brady
Paul Sundvall wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.26-2 Severity: wishlist To use the command line interface for findup (file /usr/share/fslint/fslint/findup) I would be happy to find a man page. Note findup is not installed to $PATH, but I will look to see if I can add a man page. If your

Bug#561225: coreutils: cp --reflink fails with Btrfs file system

2009-12-15 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 15/12/09 13:00, Jim Meyering wrote: Jason White wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.0-2 ja...@vrtl:~$ touch testfile ja...@vrtl:~$ cp --reflink testfile testfile2 cp: failed to clone `testfile2': Invalid argument I am running kernel 2.6.32 with a Btrfs root file system under KVM, x86-64

Bug#395430: [PATCH] doc: note the order in which wc counts are printed

2011-07-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/07/11 22:10, Benoît Knecht wrote: diff --git a/src/wc.c b/src/wc.c +The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in\n\ +the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.\n\ Well worth adding. How about rewording to line up with the

Bug#395430: [PATCH] doc: note the order in which wc counts are printed

2011-07-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 13/07/11 09:07, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hi, On 2011-07-13 09:28:55 +0200, Benoît Knecht wrote: Well I prefer not using abreviations in documentation (char - character, max - maximum); of course, those are obvious, but I think it's in general better to use plain words. As for line vs.

Bug#551093: [PATCH] doc: describe the file permissions set by mktemp

2011-07-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 13/07/11 12:57, Benoît Knecht wrote: * src/mktemp.c (usage): As above, for --help. Reported by Jordi Pujol in http://bugs.debian.org/551093. --- THANKS.in|1 + src/mktemp.c |5 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in index

Bug#551093: [PATCH] doc: describe the file permissions set by mktemp

2011-07-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 13/07/11 14:40, Eric Blake wrote: Files are created u+rw, and directories u+rwx, minus umask restrictions I applied the 1 line version above. thanks, Pádraig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#682969: timeout 20 /usr/sbin/ntpd -g -q gives wrong return code

2012-07-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 07/27/2012 05:56 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.13-3.2 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/timeout I'm trying to set the time during boot. Unfortunately ntpd hangs forever if the timeserver is unavailable. So I added a timeout to it so the

Bug#718898: cut no longer works with newline as delimiter

2013-08-06 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 08/06/2013 08:32 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Volker Klasen opened a bug in the Debian bug tracker concerning a change in behavior in cut. I have CC'd the bug on this message. I have manually set an appropriate Reply-To header. http://bugs.debian.org/718898 There has been a lot of

Bug#713022: bug#14686: Bug#713022: truncate man and info pages must mention -s / -r mandatory

2013-06-21 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 06/21/2013 09:05 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.13-3.3 File: /usr/share/man/man1/truncate.1.gz X-debbugs-CC: bug-coreut...@gnu.org $ truncate /tmp/erere truncate: you must specify either `--size' or `--reference' What a shock. Not mentioned on man or

Bug#713022: bug#14686: Bug#713022: truncate man and info pages must mention -s / -r mandatory

2013-06-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 06/22/2013 09:42 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: I thought it would do the obvious, like touch does. NAME touch - change file timestamps SYNOPSIS touch [OPTION]... FILE... DESCRIPTION Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current

Bug#608832: bug#12350: Composites identified as primes in factor.c (when HAVE_GMP)

2012-09-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/07/2012 11:35 AM, Niels Möller wrote: Pádraig Bradyp...@draigbrady.com writes: On 09/07/2012 09:43 AM, Niels Möller wrote: If this is an important feature, maybe one should consider bundling mini-gmp Bundling libraries is bad if one needed to update it. mini-gmp is not an

Bug#702968: /usr/share/fslint/fslint/findup: always finds duplicates

2013-03-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/13/2013 02:23 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.42-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/fslint/fslint/findup Hello, /usr/share/fslint/fslint/findup -t /srv/mail prints a lot of duplicates. /usr/share/fslint/fslint/findup -m /srv/mail does something.

Bug#728420: fslint: Please add an actual Size column in GUI and allow sorting by clicking column headers

2013-11-01 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/01/2013 01:36 AM, user wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.42-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, I would love it if there was a way to sort the results of a dupe scan, perhaps by Wasted Space (per group - would be blank for individual files) and plain File Size

Bug#730779: please include coreutils realpath

2013-11-29 Thread Pádraig Brady
Package: coreutils Version: 8.21 The coreutils package currently removes the realpath(1) program in preference for the separate realpath package. I would encourage biasing towards coreutils realpath instead, since it has been designed to be fully backwards compat with the existing realpath

Bug#723740: should be an Architecture: all package

2013-12-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
It's just python so should be Architecture: all ? thanks, Pádraig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#723740: RFP: crudini - A utility for manipulating ini files

2013-09-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: crudini Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com URL : http://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/crudini/ Source URL : https://github.com/pixelb/crudini/ License : GPLV2 Programming Lang: python

Bug#738526: sort: weird(might wrong) sorting result

2014-02-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 02/10/2014 08:56 AM, Adam Lee wrote: echo -e c = c\nca = ca\ncm = cm|sort $ echo -e c = c\nca = ca\ncm = cm| LANG=C sort c = c ca = ca cm = cm This is a FAQ, but you need to explicitly set the C locale to avoid your locale collating rules. thanks, Pádraig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#747474: coreutils: rm --preserve-root failure

2014-05-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 05/09/2014 08:02 AM, Jessica K. Litwin wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.13-3.5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, In root-dev-ino.h there is logic to prevent the user from doing (for example) 'rm -rf /' without --no-preserve-root. It doesn't prevent the user from doing 'rm -rf

Bug#747474: coreutils: rm --preserve-root failure

2014-05-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 05/09/2014 05:15 PM, Jessica Litwin wrote: Hi, Can you honestly tell me there is a use case for allowing 'rm -rf /*' to succeed? If we're going to say that it's dangerous to operate on / then it makes sense to trap /* as well. It doesn't make sense that we should allow the root of the

Bug#749063: docker makes df horrible

2014-05-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 05/23/2014 04:13 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Package: docker.io, coreutils Severity: minor docker mounts stuff under a directory that normal users cannot read, which makes df full of errors. Example below from a system with 4 running containers. I feel this is a polish/integration issue that

Bug#749063: docker makes df horrible

2014-05-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 05/23/2014 04:49 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: Does `df -a` not show them for root? Perhaps the duplicate suppression is kicking in here, though one might have to have root access to determine the mount points were duplicates

Bug#751696: coreutils: dd seems to ignore the documented status=xfer option

2014-06-15 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 06/15/2014 06:10 PM, Roman Czyborra wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.13-3.5 Severity: normal Dear Michael, I would expect suppress transfer statistics to do away with the records in at successful operation: The records count is a POSIX specified output that _shall_ be output.

Bug#755714: /usr/bin/id: lies about the available groups

2014-07-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 07/22/2014 05:18 PM, Ron wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.21-1.2 Severity: normal Hi, The coreutils changelog notes that a bug in id and groups which overreported the available groups was supposedly fixed in: 2012-04-27 Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com id,groups: with

Bug#741194: fslint: Find whole directories with duplicate contents

2014-03-10 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/09/2014 09:16 PM, David Z wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.42-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream I know it would be a lot of work. BUT - It would be amazing if FSLint output duplicate information by directory. For instance, I might have two dirs, ~/Documents/linux guides

Bug#739752: bug#17010: Bug#739752: coreutils: ln segfaults when run with --relative and an empty target

2014-03-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/14/2014 01:42 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: From a6d2db8b6dfe15344aba4aefe9545eb3a4876d45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering meyer...@fb.com Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 17:05:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ln: with -sr, don't segfault for a TARGET of '' Prior to this change, ln -sr '' F

Bug#739752: bug#17010: Bug#739752: coreutils: ln segfaults when run with --relative and an empty target

2014-03-14 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/14/2014 03:44 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com wrote: Interesting. So canonicalize_filename_mode() can fail in this case, even with CAN_MISSING. It's unexpected that c_f_m() sets errno=ENOENT when CAN_MISSING is set. I wonder

Bug#730779: realpath maintainer also wants to switch to the GNU coreutils version

2014-03-18 Thread Pádraig Brady
Referencing Rober's request to switch to the GNU coreutils version, which by design was meant to be as close as possible to the Debian version: https://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2013/12/msg2.html thanks, Pádraig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#756712: ls -l should indicate presence of capabilities (just as + indicates ACLs)

2014-08-01 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 08/01/2014 01:10 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.21-1.2 Severity: normal File: /bin/ls ls -l indicates a file with ACLs set by putting a + after the permission block. It should have a similar indicator for files that have capabilities set (as via setcap). Such

Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation

2014-09-08 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/08/2014 08:30 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 09/08/2014 07:12 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: For instance, in the touch(1) man page: The full documentation for touch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and touch programs are properly

Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation

2014-09-08 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/09/2014 01:32 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2014-09-08 18:10:35 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Note that IIRC originally the pointer was: info touch But that failed due to shortcomings in variously implemented install-info commands that I don't remember now. There were actually several

Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation

2014-09-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/09/2014 01:51 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 06:10:35PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: But I think in recent years the install-info problems have been fixed. Perhaps we don't need to do any of this anymore? Or perhaps finally getting to the canonical

Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation

2014-09-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/08/2014 07:12 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: For instance, in the touch(1) man page: The full documentation for touch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and touch programs are properly installed at your site, the command

Bug#761189: coreutils: wrong 'info' command in ls manpage

2014-09-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
foremerge 760861 761189 stop On 09/11/2014 03:03 PM, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, At the end of the ls manpage we have the following instruction : SEE ALSO The full documentation for ls is maintained as a Texinfo

Bug#737399: metoo

2014-10-24 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/24/2014 03:14 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 03:38:35PM +0200, you wrote: rootfs- - -- / /dev/mapper/vg00-root 32896880 4781600 26421176 16% / nfs-home:/space/home - - -

Bug#737399: metoo

2014-10-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/27/2014 08:36 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: On 10/24/14 18:24, Pádraig Brady wrote: Note /home doesn't seem to be accessible above which is another reason to prefer /data here. What do you mean by not accessible? Both /home and /data work fine. I was referring to the fact

Bug#737399: metoo

2014-10-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/27/2014 05:21 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:54:57AM +, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 10/27/2014 08:36 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: On 10/24/14 18:24, Pádraig Brady wrote: Note /home doesn't seem to be accessible above which is another reason to prefer /data here

Bug#737399: metoo

2014-10-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/27/2014 03:12 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: On 10/27/14 12:54, Pádraig Brady wrote: Good point about the man page. I've submitted a patch to mention that -a includes duplicate file systems. Thats exactly the point of this bug report: /home and /data are not duplicates. The server has

Bug#737399: metoo

2014-10-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/28/2014 12:26 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:51:44PM +, Pádraig Brady wrote: --- src/df.c.orig 2014-10-27 12:14:39.633167418 -0400 +++ src/df.c2014-10-27 13:16:54.524752800 -0400 @@ -631,6 +631,10 @@ /* Stat failed - add ME to be able

Bug#762092: sha...sum man pages refer to nonexistent 'sha...sum invocation' info pages

2014-09-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/18/2014 12:54 PM, Rebecca Palmer wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-2 Severity: minor Control: tags -1 patch The man page of sha512sum states that more documentation can be found at info coreutils 'sha512sum invocation', but this info node does not exist; the correct name is

Bug#762147: fslint: Delete action always hangs and consumes 100% CPU for a long time

2014-09-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/18/2014 11:39 PM, David Z wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.42-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, Ran a duplicate scan of my home dir. It completed normally. Selected one particular duplicate file from the list, and clicked the Delete button. The program

Bug#767932: fslint-gui crashed with IndexError in get_selectable(): list index out of range

2014-11-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/03/2014 03:12 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Package: fslint Version: 2.44-2 Severity: normal Hi, This is a bug that was trapped by apport on Debian. I am not sure how reproducible it is, but looking at the backtrace, the bug looks valid. Fixed upstream with:

Bug#775197: uniq: -u -d -D options non-orthogonal and confusing when combined

2015-01-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/01/15 14:13, Jonathan David Amery wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.13-3.5 Severity: normal I was attempting to use uniq to categorise my data based on the first so many characters and I discover that: a) it is currently impossible to use uniq to output all lines; with lines

Bug#779499: coreutils: split with -d option creates file names that jump from x89 to x9000

2015-03-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 02/03/15 20:42, Beatrice Torracca wrote: On Monday 02 March 2015, at 17:38 +, Pádraig Brady wrote: I read the explanation of the options you mention. Even with a file as big as to generate only 97 files I get this x00 x01 ... x89 x9000 x9001 x9007 While it is true

Bug#779499: coreutils: split with -d option creates file names that jump from x89 to x9000

2015-03-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 02/03/15 17:17, Beatrice Torracca wrote: Messaggio originale Da: p...@draigbrady.com Data: 01/03/2015 21.08 A: Beatrice Torraccabeatri...@libero.it, 779...@bugs.debian.org, Debian Bug Tracking Systemsub...@bugs.debian.org Ogg: Re: Bug#779499: coreutils: split with -d option

Bug#779499: coreutils: split with -d option creates file names that jump from x89 to x9000

2015-03-01 Thread Pádraig Brady
tag 779499 notabug close 779499 stop On 01/03/15 15:08, Beatrice Torracca wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-3 Severity: normal Hi! I tried using split to divide a text file in chunks using the -d option to have numeric suffixes. The results I got had the number of the suffixes

Bug#781208: coreutils: manpage documents wrong default for --color

2015-03-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 26/03/15 01:44, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-4 Severity: minor Hi. ls(1) says: --color[=WHEN] colorize the output; WHEN can be 'never', 'auto', or 'always' (the default); more info below However, the default seems to be never (which is

Bug#782981: coreutils: /usr/bin/yes serves no purpose

2015-04-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 20/04/15 02:47, richard jasmin wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, printing 'Y' all over the place or using if 'yes'='yes' serves no purpose from any perspective. Thats like saying if true then do something.This is a pragmatical programming

Bug#784105: coreutils: df show /dev/dm-0 instead /dev/mapper/XXX

2015-05-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/05/15 08:16, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, What led up to the situation? After the upgrade to Debian 8 from Debain 7, the output of the df command have changed. This change broke oue backup scripts which was

Bug#784105: coreutils: df show /dev/dm-0 instead /dev/mapper/XXX

2015-05-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/05/15 11:28, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 03/05/15 08:16, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, What led up to the situation? After the upgrade to Debian 8 from Debain 7, the output of the df command have changed

Bug#785118: coreutils: date : format %p %P do not work properly

2015-05-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/05/15 17:55, Marko Myllynen wrote: Hi, [CC'ing Keld with whom this issue was discussed some years ago] On 2015-05-12 18:49, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 12/05/15 16:40, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 12/05/15 14:51, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:36:17PM +0200, op

Bug#785118: coreutils: date : format %p %P do not work properly

2015-05-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/05/15 14:51, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:36:17PM +0200, op...@mumm.ac.be wrote: I'm just upgrading my server from debian 7 (wheezy) to debian 8 (jessie) and several of my scripts are not working anymore. After some tests, it turns out that the problem likely comes

Bug#785118: coreutils: date : format %p %P do not work properly

2015-05-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/05/15 16:40, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 12/05/15 14:51, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:36:17PM +0200, op...@mumm.ac.be wrote: I'm just upgrading my server from debian 7 (wheezy) to debian 8 (jessie) and several of my scripts are not working anymore. After some tests

Bug#786563: df: undocumented option -m

2015-05-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
tag 786563 wontfix close 786563 stop On 22/05/15 22:15, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.21-1.2 Severity: minor File: /bin/df Hi, I just noticed that the df manpage is not mentioning -m. -m is obsolescent and so undocumented and only exists for BSD

Bug#793831: coreutils: stat does not report file birth timestamp, even when available

2015-07-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 28/07/15 00:23, Grant Sanders wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Stat does not seem to recognize any timestamps for file birth, even when they are available and accurate. My filesystem is ext4. To reproduce, I ran: touch /root/test. Then I

Bug#792808: coreutils: CRC file checks not consistent

2015-07-18 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 18/07/15 19:38, Leslie Rhorer wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, CRC checks on large files often return variable values. I have tried several different CRC check utilities, md5sum, md6sum, sha56sum,

Bug#795270: coreutils: df does not display all nfs mounts for the same mount points

2015-08-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 25/08/15 17:41, Phil Schwartz wrote: Re: coreutils 8.21 These mount points are different as are the targets: loui-nac01:/vol/vol_pdbuild /srv/builds nfs defaults,nosuid 0 0 loui-nac01:/vol/vol_archive /srv/archives nfs defaults,nosuid 0

Bug#799479: date --iso-8601=m does not use ISO 8601 format as documented

2015-10-27 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 23/10/15 03:39, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 19/09/15 17:46, Michael Gold wrote: >> Package: coreutils >> Version: 8.23-4 >> Severity: minor >> >> The manual page for 'date' says --iso-8601 will "output date/time in ISO >> 8601 format",

Bug#803371: coreutils: cp degrades system performance by wasting cache

2015-10-29 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 29/10/15 10:46, Russell Coker wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 8.23-4 > Severity: normal > > If you copy many large files to a slow device the amount of memory used for > cache grows needlessly and impacts overall system performance. As we already > have the --reflink option I think

Bug#799479: date --iso-8601=m does not use ISO 8601 format as documented

2015-10-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 19/09/15 17:46, Michael Gold wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 8.23-4 > Severity: minor > > The manual page for 'date' says --iso-8601 will "output date/time in ISO > 8601 format", but I don't believe the format actually complies with that > standard when a time is included. > > §4.3.3d

Bug#804338: coreutils: provide a clean way for optional global cp --reflink=auto

2015-11-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 07/11/15 19:22, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > So do you see it coming that this is actually "solved" (meaning refcopy > works per default out of the box for e.g. btrfs users) upstream ... or > is it worth to look into making it configurable at the distro level, as > I proposed above? I

Bug#804338: coreutils: provide a clean way for optional global cp --reflink=auto

2015-11-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 07/11/15 14:34, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 8.23-4 > Severity: wishlist > > > Hi. > > It would be nice if the package could provide a clean out-of-the-box > way to get global --reflink=auto behaviour. > > Starting with 8.24, mv --reflink=auto will be the

Bug#641166: Please at least mention shuf in sort's man page

2015-10-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 07/10/15 09:43, Philip Hands wrote: > Hi Micheal, > > A conversation on #debconf-team this morning which mentioned the use of > sort -R revealed that people that have been bitten by the quirks of > sort -R have a folkloric understanding that there's something not quite > right about it

Bug#801654: dircolors: Please support colors on TERM=screen.xterm-256color

2015-10-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 13/10/15 04:11, Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 8.23-4 > Severity: normal > > josh@jet:~$ TERM=screen.xterm-256color dircolors > LS_COLORS=''; > export LS_COLORS > screen in current unstable seems to set TERM to screen.xterm-256color if > running in a terminal with

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