From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27247 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2005 15:20:02 -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 1316 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jul 2005 13:25:37 -0000 Message-ID: <42D51651.5000202@byu.net> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:20:00 -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-5.3.0-9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 5.3.0-9, 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 it replaces the stable 5.2.1 series available via setup.exe. See /usr/share/doc/coreutils-5.3.0/NEWS for the changes since 5.2.1-5. This release changes mv(1), cp(1), and install(1) to better handle .exe handling in virtual directories (such as /cygdrive or /dev/null). It improves ln(1) to recognize creating relative symlinks outside of the current directory, and adds a new cygwin-specific option, - --disable-exe-magic, that bypasses .exe handling. This option is intended to be used when creating a symlink to a network share, when the remote machine might not be up; and if you use it, you should be aware that you become responsible for typing the .exe extension if it is needed. This release also fixes basename(1) and dirname(1) to understand that // is a distinct file from /. Note that su(1) is UNSUPPORTED; for more details, see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC42. This package REQUIRES cygwin 1.5.18 or newer snapshots. Also, there are known bugs that have been reported (and some of them fixed) in upstream CVS, such as du improperly double-counting files that are accessible via multiple names due to mount points. But these known issues tend to be in corner cases, and not affect daily use. NOTE: ===== My apologies to anyone whose installation experience was painful yesterday during the window when the (unannounced) -8 version was on the mirrors. A glitch in the upload process corrupted that version, crippling anyone's cygwin installation if they had the misfortune of downloading it. 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 volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC1RZR84KuGfSFAYARAp+8AJ0deYnPztcKmqeZPldw4JuZY9BuHQCdFJEy lLkf5yA43+EGYpt/jW9EI5k= =jb9E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----