bug#7226:

2010-10-16 Thread parag dave
Dear Sir, I am not reporting a bug. Only pointing out possible improvements. touch is a very useful command for me. I have issue with its handling of symbolic links. When you touch the symbolic links the original file gets touche, no the symbolic link file. I hope you shall be able ro provide me

bug#7226:

2010-10-16 Thread Jim Meyering
parag dave wrote: I am not reporting a bug. Only pointing out possible improvements. touch is a very useful command for me. I have issue with its handling of symbolic links. When you touch the symbolic links the original file gets touche, no the symbolic link file. I hope you shall be able ro

bug#7223: Acknowledgement (DATE 8.5 and back -- Invalid date with specific dates)

2010-10-16 Thread Lucien Raven
Thanks all you folks! The missing piece of information, as guessed by Paul Eggert: TZ=America/Sao_Paulo (Brazil/East). All commands from the report were executed a few hours before reporting,so it was Oct,15... a few days from entering Daylight Saving time. Tried all your suggestions they

bug#7228: coreutils-8.6 sort-float failure on ppc

2010-10-16 Thread Gilles Espinasse
Just tested 8.6 on linux glibc-2.11.1/gcc-4.4.5 LFS build on x86, sparc and ppc First a good news is that on sparc (32-bits), 8.6 test suite is now passing I didn't report yet a failure on misc/stty which was Failure was + stty -icanon stty: standard input: unable to perform all requested

bug#7155: [md5sum] does not accept

2010-10-16 Thread Rimas Kudelis
On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:24 +0100, Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com wrote: On 03/10/10 20:24, Rimas Kudelis wrote: Hi, I have a little problem with md5sum. A FreeBSD box generates an md5 sum of a file, which I'm later trying to check on a Linux box. The problem is that what FreeBSD's

bug#7228: coreutils-8.6 sort-float failure on ppc

2010-10-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Gilles Espinasse wrote: Just tested 8.6 on linux glibc-2.11.1/gcc-4.4.5 LFS build on x86, sparc and ppc First a good news is that on sparc (32-bits), 8.6 test suite is now passing I didn't report yet a failure on misc/stty which was Failure was + stty -icanon stty: standard input: unable

bug#7228: coreutils-8.6 sort-float failure on ppc

2010-10-16 Thread Gilles Espinasse
- Original Message - From: Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net To: Gilles Espinasse g@free.fr Cc: 7...@debbugs.gnu.org Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 9:14 PM Subject: Re: bug#7228: coreutils-8.6 sort-float failure on ppc Gilles Espinasse wrote: Just tested 8.6 on linux

bug#7155: [md5sum] does not accept

2010-10-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 16/10/10 20:37, Rimas Kudelis wrote: On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:24 +0100, Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com wrote: On 03/10/10 20:24, Rimas Kudelis wrote: Hi, I have a little problem with md5sum. A FreeBSD box generates an md5 sum of a file, which I'm later trying to check on a Linux

bug#7228: coreutils-8.6 sort-float failure on ppc

2010-10-16 Thread Alan Curry
Jim Meyering writes: Gilles Espinasse wrote: Just tested 8.6 on linux glibc-2.11.1/gcc-4.4.5 LFS build on x86, sparc and ppc First a good news is that on sparc (32-bits), 8.6 test suite is now passing I didn't report yet a failure on misc/stty which was Failure was + stty -icanon