From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7876 invoked by alias); 6 Apr 2005 07:54:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Received: (qmail 1774 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2005 03:57:43 -0000 Message-ID: <42535E37.9000007@byu.net> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:54:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: coreutils-5.3.0-4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 5.3.0-4, is available. NEWS ==== This is a minor patch release. The overall 5.3.0 series was designated unstable by the upstream author (compared to the stable 5.2.1), because it introduces some POSIX-compliance fixes for the first time; but there have been few complaints so the 5.2.1 series is no longer available via setup.exe. See /usr/share/doc/coreutils-5.3.0/NEWS for the changes since 5.2.1-5. This release adds the following patches: cp(1), install(1), and mv(1) are now more consistent in their behavior of implicit .exe extensions (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00448.html for some examples that were previously strange). Additionally, rm(1) now also has some implicit .exe handling. The rule of thumb is that if both x and x.exe exist in a directory, the command-line argument specifies that file. But if only x.exe exists, then both x and x.exe can be used to name the file, and if .exe was implicitly added to reach the source, then the destination will also have .exe. The other patch in this release is that dircolors(1) now supports the cygwin terminal by default when it is not using /etc/DIR_COLORS. There is still a known upstream bug with hardlinks - `mv -i a b' fails to prompt when a and b are hardlinks to one another, but that will be fixed whenever upstream releases 5.3.1. Also, I am not sure whether coreutils should attempt to make `mv a A' work successfully; but in the meantime you can use the mvv script proposed here: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-02/msg00454.html. Also, note that su(1) is UNSUPPORTED; for more details, see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC42. This package REQUIRES cygwin 1.5.13 or newer snapshots, and has been tested with cygwin 1.5.14. If you are running on a Windows 95, 98, or ME system, cygwin 1.5.14 still has some known bugs that may affect several coreutils, such as touch(1). To avoid those bugs, you can use a snapshot or wait for cygwin 1.5.15. When building from source, you will need your own version of automake 1.9.5 or later (until the cygwin automake version is updated) if you want `make -k check' to get past the spurious failures caused by bugs in the testsuite. DESCRIPTION =========== GNU coreutils provides a collection of commonly used utilities essential to a standard POSIX environment. It comprises the former textutils, sh-utils, and fileutils packages. The following executables are included: [ basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold gkill groups head hostid hostname id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nice nl nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir seq sha1sum shred sleep sort split stat stty sum sync tac tail tee test touch tr true tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes UPDATE ====== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions, then look for 'coreutils' in the 'Base' category. Because of packaging conflicts between coreutils-5.2.1-5, cygutils-1.2.5-1, gettext-0.14.1-1, libiconv-1.9.2-1, and procps-010801-2, upgrading any of these packages may delete a file provided by another. Running `cygcheck -c' will show you if upgrading left a package incomplete, in which case you should reinstall that package. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCU14384KuGfSFAYARAoJeAJ4uv9C7NgVdKOB8BLNleb3Y1iXdWgCeIdyc XsEqgmuuhPQPd625wvWhY/E= =2043 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----