[ITCoM] coreutils

[ITCoM] coreutils

[Brian Inglis]

Hi folks,

Eric Blake no longer seems to have free time available for Cygwin 
package upgrades, so I would like to offer to co-maintain coreutils and 
provide upgrades as they are now five years old.

I would like to provide an upgrade to the final version 8 release 8.32, 
initially as a TEST release, before working on the latest release 9.1.

Package sources and archives are available online at:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1z_giKv3QIUbYvSNOiTtMMr644v-wOG_k

and builds in playground from:

https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/playground.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/playground

https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=playground&status=&user=Brian+Inglis&id=4119

https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/2239985902

The jobs appear to fail because some checks fail and return non-zero 
status. Comparing checks between ciurrent and proposed releases and 
across x86/_64/CI jobs, there appear to be fewer failures despite more 
tests.

All feedback is encouraged and gratefully received.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Re: [ITCoM] coreutils

[Corinna Vinschen]

On May  2 23:15, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Eric Blake no longer seems to have free time available for Cygwin package
> upgrades, so I would like to offer to co-maintain coreutils and provide
> upgrades as they are now five years old.
> 
> I would like to provide an upgrade to the final version 8 release 8.32,
> initially as a TEST release, before working on the latest release 9.1.
> 
> Package sources and archives are available online at:
> 
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1z_giKv3QIUbYvSNOiTtMMr644v-wOG_k
> 
> and builds in playground from:
> 
> https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/playground.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/playground
> 
> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=playground&status=&user=Brian+Inglis&id=4119
> 
> https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/2239985902
> 
> The jobs appear to fail because some checks fail and return non-zero status.
> Comparing checks between ciurrent and proposed releases and across
> x86/_64/CI jobs, there appear to be fewer failures despite more tests.
> 
> All feedback is encouraged and gratefully received.

Thanks for picking up coreutils, which is not only by name a core
package.

I think this is at least worthy of a pink hippo ;)


Corinna

Re: [ITCoM] coreutils

[Jon Turney]

On 04/05/2022 08:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May  2 23:15, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Eric Blake no longer seems to have free time available for Cygwin package
>> upgrades, so I would like to offer to co-maintain coreutils and provide
>> upgrades as they are now five years old.

Done.  Thanks.

>> I would like to provide an upgrade to the final version 8 release 8.32,
>> initially as a TEST release, before working on the latest release 9.1.
>>
>> Package sources and archives are available online at:
>>
>> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1z_giKv3QIUbYvSNOiTtMMr644v-wOG_k
>>
>> and builds in playground from:
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/playground.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/playground

Since it didn't already exists, I've created 
git://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/coreutils.git using a new tool I've 
been working on ('ctm2git') which synthesizes a git history of the 
packaging for a package from the source package history in the CTM.

If that's not wanted, please let me know and I'll remove it.

>> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=playground&status=&user=Brian+Inglis&id=4119
>>
>> https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/2239985902
>>
>> The jobs appear to fail because some checks fail and return non-zero status.
>> Comparing checks between ciurrent and proposed releases and across
>> x86/_64/CI jobs, there appear to be fewer failures despite more tests.
>>
>> All feedback is encouraged and gratefully received.
> 
> Thanks for picking up coreutils, which is not only by name a core
> package.
> 
> I think this is at least worthy of a pink hippo ;)

Re: [ITCoM] coreutils

[Brian Inglis]

[ISP being sold outsourced miltering to idiots who drop messages, so 
pasting from archives!]

On Wed May 4 11:25:44 GMT 2022, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 2022-05-04 01:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On May  2 23:15, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> Eric Blake no longer seems to have free time available for Cygwin
>>> package upgrades, so I would like to offer to co-maintain
>>> coreutils and provide upgrades as they are now five years old.

> Done. Thanks.

>>> I would like to provide an upgrade to the final version 8 release
>>> 8.32, initially as a TEST release, before working on the latest
>>> release 9.1.
>>> Package sources and archives are available online at:
>>> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1z_giKv3QIUbYvSNOiTtMMr644v-wOG_k
>>> and builds in playground from:
>>> https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/playground.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/playground

> Since it didn't already exist, I've created 
> git://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/coreutils.git using a new tool
> I've been working on ('ctm2git') which synthesizes a git history of
> the packaging for a package from the source package history in the
> CTM.
> If that's not wanted, please let me know and I'll remove it.

That's really nice, thanks, I'll drop my two version playground.

>>> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=playground&status=&user=Brian+Inglis&id=4119
>>> https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/2239985902
>>> The jobs appear to fail because some checks fail and return 
>>> non-zero status.
>>> Comparing checks between current and proposed releases and across
>>> x86/_64/CI jobs, there appear to be fewer failures despite more
>>> tests.
>>> All feedback is encouraged and gratefully received.

>> Thanks for picking up coreutils, which is not only by name a core
>> package.
>> I think this is at least worthy of a pink hippo ;)

Thanks, hopefully I can be worthy of *IT*!

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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