We plan to release coreutils-8.30 in the coming week so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then would be most welcome.
-------------------------------------- You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.3 MB) from: https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz And verify with gpg or md5sum with: https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = 0e7f0cceb9940143d230c94079c6a754 -------------------------------------- To test follow this standard procedure: tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz cd coreutils-8.29.57-2ed7c2/ ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log -------------------------------------- Changes in coreutils since v8.29 are summarized at https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS and all commits grouped by author are as follows: Adam Borowski (1): cp: add --reflink=never to force standard copy mode Assaf Gordon (3): maint: refactor unsetenv call in env env: add -v/--debug option env: add -S/--split-string option Bernhard Voelker (2): maint: adjust email address of Keith Thompson in THANKS.in tests: initialize fail=0 to avoid "unary operator expected" errors Bjarni Ingi Gislason (1): doc: formatting fixes in "du.x" and "rm.x" Brent Petit (1): stat,tail: add support for the EXFS file system Carlos Santos (1): maint: fix -Werror=suggest-attribute=malloc in expr.c Eric Blake (1): doc: retroactively document -e/-u addition in NEWS Jim Meyering (1): maint: do not depend directly on gnulib's now-unused ftello module Kaxandra Labat (1): ls: ignore case when coloring file extensions Michael Orlitzky (2): doc: clarify chown/chgrp --dereference defaults doc: warn about following symlinks recursively in chown/chgrp Paul Eggert (17): tr: add -A, for compatibility with AIX tr mv: -n overrides -u cp: remove ASSIGN_BASENAME_STRDUPA mv: improve -n atomicity mv: fewer syscalls for ‘mv a b’ mv: clarify ‘mv -n A A’ change stat: work around IBM xlC bug build: update gnulib submodule to latest ls: -A now overrides -a doc: Clarify octal bits in permissions build: update gnulib submodule to latest maint: remove strpbrk module maint: port to GCC 8 build: update gnulib submodule to latest who: simplify port to GCC 8 doc: port man pages to doclifter doc: port test.1 to doclifter Pádraig Brady (24): maint: post-release administrivia maint: update all copyright year number ranges tests: avoid false failure with xargs on AIX doc: use consistent example format in manual cp: set appropriate default permissions for special files ls: increase the allowed abmon width from 5 to 12 tests: avoid a recent syntax-check failure doc: timeout --help: mention 0 DURATION disables timeout doc: retroactively adjust info about tail and closed output build: make GCC 8 adjustments more portable doc: improve formatting of nl --help maint: make chmod/chgrp/chown leak free under valgrind cp: ensure --remove-destination doesn't traverse symlinks cp: fix symlink checks when overwriting files cp: with --force; replace self referential symlinks tests: fix periodic false failure in month alignment cp: preserve existing permissions with --no-preserve=mode wc: optimize processing of ASCII in multi byte locales md5sum,b2sum,sha*sum: support -z,--zero option rm: add --preserve-root=all to protect mounts tests: provide an option to relax the need for gdb maint: avoid false positive in src/fs-magic-compare maint: sync longlong.h from gmp repo maint: update gnulib to latest Roland Hieber (1): doc: fix two typos in github templates Tobias Stoeckmann (1): cut: improve large file support on 32 bit thanks! Pádraig
