A new release of coreutils, 8.23-1, is available for download for testing purposes, leaving 8.15-1 (32-bit) or 8.15-3 (64-bit) as current for another week until I am sure there are no major regressions. NEWS: ===== This is a new upstream release, with upstream details listed below. It is also my first time building coreutils for 64-bit cygwin in the capacity as maintainer (thanks to others that helped in the initial transition to 64-bit). Of note, there is no longer an 'su' program in coreutils; this is an upstream decision (many Linux distros are getting su from other packages, and even though cygwin's su had come from coreutils, it was heavily patched and doesn't work as smoothly as on Linux). I'm debating whether it is worth trying to capture the last release of coreutils' su, as patched to work on cygwin, for distribution as an independent package; if anyone was relying on that program, now is your chance to speak up. In building this version of coreutils, the testsuite complained about ACL detection on directories not working as expected; if you notice 'ls -l' output looking strange on a directory when compared to 8.15, please report the details, so I can investigate if this is a regression or something I need to patch. If you encounter a regression, please report it here rather than upstream. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/coreutils/. Help in porting the stdbuf utility to cygwin would be appreciated. Yes, I'm aware that it has been more than 2 years since I last built coreutils, and that there has been some question on the mailing list of whether I'm being responsive enough as a maintainer. I apologize for the delays in getting this release made, but I'd still like to hang on to this package a bit longer, particularly since I'm most familiar with the set of cygwin-only downstream patches needed to make the package play nicely with the Cygwin environment. 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: [ arch base64 basename cat chcon 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 mktemp mv nice nl nohup nproc numfmt od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink realpath rm rmdir runcon seq sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf sleep sort split stat stty sum sync tac tail tee test timeout touch tr true truncate 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 and pick up 'coreutils' from the 'Base' category. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from 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 package maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN.COM@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.