On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2015-07-01 17:35, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> We plan to release coreutils-8.24 in the next couple of days so any >> testing you can do on various different systems between now and then >> would be most welcome. > > $ rm -r coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/ > rm: remove write-protected regular file > `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/src/cu-progs.mk'? y > rm: remove write-protected regular file > `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/src/single-binary.mk'? y > rm: remove write-protected regular file > `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/src/fs-is-local.h'? y > rm: remove write-protected regular file > `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/src/primes.h'? y > rm: remove write-protected regular file `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/src/fs.h'? > y > rm: remove write-protected regular file > `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/src/dircolors.h'? y > rm: remove write-protected regular file `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/THANKS'? y > rm: remove write-protected regular file > `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/m4/cu-progs.m4'? y > > It would be nicer if these files were not read-only in the tarball.
Hi Benno, They are read-only to indicate that they are generated. You can remove them without interaction by adding rm's -f option.
