- Update to 8.32:
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.32 (2020-03-05) [stable]
** Bug fixes
cp now copies /dev/fd/N correctly on platforms like Solaris where
it is a character-special file whose minor device number is N.
[bug introduced in fileutils-4.1.6]
dd conv=fdatasync no longer reports a "Bad file descriptor" error
when fdatasync is interrupted, and dd now retries interrupted calls
to close, fdatasync, fstat and fsync instead of incorrectly
reporting an "Interrupted system call" error.
[bugs introduced in coreutils-6.0]
df now correctly parses the /proc/self/mountinfo file for unusual entries
like ones with '\r' in a field value ("mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /foo$'\r'bar"),
when the source field is empty ('mount -t tmpfs "" /mnt'), and when the
filesystem type contains characters like a blank which need escaping.
[bugs introduced in coreutils-8.24 with the introduction of reading
the /proc/self/mountinfo file]
factor again outputs immediately when stdout is a tty but stdin is not.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
ln works again on old systems without O_DIRECTORY support (like Solaris 10),
and on systems where symlink ("x", ".") fails with errno == EINVAL
(like Solaris 10 and Solaris 11).
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.31]
rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty now works correctly for directories
that fail to be removed due to permission issues. Previously the exit status
was reversed, failing for non empty and succeeding for empty directories.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.11]
'shuf -r -n 0 file' no longer mistakenly reads from standard input.
[bug introduced with the --repeat feature in coreutils-8.22]
split no longer reports a "output file suffixes exhausted" error
when the specified number of files is evenly divisible by 10, 16, 26,
for --numeric, --hex, or default alphabetic suffixes respectively.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
seq no longer prints an extra line under certain circumstances (such as
'seq -f "%g " 1000000 1000000').
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.10]
** Changes in behavior
Several programs now check that numbers end properly. For example,
'du -d 1x' now reports an error instead of silently ignoring the 'x'.
Affected programs and options include du -d, expr's numeric operands
on non-GMP builds, install -g and -o, ls's TABSIZE environment
variable, mknod b and c, ptx -g and -w, shuf -n, and sort --batch-size
and --parallel.
date now parses military time zones in accordance with common usage:
"A" to "M" are equivalent to UTC+1 to UTC+12
"N" to "Y" are equivalent to UTC-1 to UTC-12
"Z" is "zulu" time (UTC).
For example, 'date -d "09:00B" is now equivalent to 9am in UTC+2 time zone.
Previously, military time zones were parsed according to the obsolete
rfc822, with their value negated (e.g., "B" was equivalent to UTC-2).
[The old behavior was introduced in sh-utils 2.0.15 ca. 1999, predating
coreutils package.]
ls issues an error message on a removed directory, on GNU/Linux systems.
Previously no error and no entries were output, and so indistinguishable
from an empty directory, with default ls options.
uniq no longer uses strcoll() to determine string equivalence,
and so will operate more efficiently and consistently.
** New Features
ls now supports the --time=birth option to display and sort by
file creation time, where available.
od --skip-bytes now can use lseek even if the input is not a regular
file, greatly improving performance in some cases.
stat(1) supports a new --cached= option, used on systems with statx(2)
to control cache coherency of file system attributes,
useful on network file systems.
** Improvements
stat and ls now use the statx() system call where available, which can
operate more efficiently by only retrieving requested attributes.
stat and tail now know about the "binderfs", "dma-buf-fs", "erofs",
"ppc-cmm-fs", and "z3fold" file systems.
stat -f -c%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f uses inotify.
** Build-related
gzip-compressed tarballs are distributed once again
- Refresh patches:
* coreutils-disable_tests.patch
* coreutils-getaddrinfo.patch
* coreutils-i18n.patch
* coreutils-invalid-ids.patch
* coreutils-remove_hostname_documentation.patch
* coreutils-remove_kill_documentation.patch
* coreutils-skip-gnulib-test-tls.patch
* coreutils-tests-shorten-extreme-factor-tests.patch
- coreutils-i18n.patch:
* uniq: remove collation handling as required by newer POSIX; see
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=8e81d44b5
- https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=963
- coreutils-ls-restore-8.31-behavior-on-removed-dirs.patch:
* Add patch for 'ls' to restore 8.31 behavior on removed directories.
- coreutils.spec:
* Version: bump version.
* %check: re-enable regular 'make check' for non-multibuild package.
* reference the above new patch.
- coreutils.keyring:
* Update from upstream (Savannah).
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/783998
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/coreutils?expand=0&rev=305
- Update to 8.30
- Refresh patches (line number changes only)
- coreutils.spec:
* (License): osc changed the value from "GPL-3.0+" to "GPL-3.0-or-later".
* (build): Make sure that parse-datetime.{c,y} ends up in debuginfo (rh#1555079).
- coreutils-i18n.patch:
* src/exand.c,src/unexpand.c: Avoid -Wcomment warning.
* src/cut.c (cut_characters_or_cut_bytes_no_split): Change idx from size_t
to uintmax_t type to avoid a regression on i586, armv7l and ppc.
Compare upstream, non-MB commit:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=d1a754c8272
(cut_fields_mb): Likewise for field_idx.
* tests/misc/cut.pl: Remove downstream tweaks as upstream MB tests are
working since a while.
- coreutils.keyring: Update Assaf Gordon's GPG public key.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/620563
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/coreutils?expand=0&rev=293
- Update to 8.26
(for details see included NEWS file)
- coreutils.spec (%description): Add b2sum, a new utility.
(BuildRequires): Add timezone to enable new 'date-debug.sh' test.
- coreutils-i18n.patch: Sync I18N patch from Fedora, as the diff
for the old i18n implementation of expand/unexpand has become
unmaintainable:
git://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/coreutils.git
- Remove now-upstream patches:
* coreutils-df-hash-in-filter.patch
* coreutils-diagnose-fts-readdir-failure.patch
* coreutils-m5sum-sha-sum-fix-ignore-missing-with-00-checksums.patch
* coreutils-maint-fix-dependency-of-man-arch.1.patch
- Refresh/merge all other patches:
* coreutils-invalid-ids.patch
* coreutils-ocfs2_reflinks.patch
* coreutils-remove_hostname_documentation.patch
* coreutils-remove_kill_documentation.patch
* coreutils-skip-gnulib-test-tls.patch
* coreutils-sysinfo.patch
* coreutils-tests-shorten-extreme-factor-tests.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/443228
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/coreutils?expand=0&rev=278
** Bug fixes
* dd supports more robust SIGINFO/SIGUSR1 handling for outputting statistics.
Previously those signals may have inadvertently terminated the process.
* df --local no longer hangs with inaccessible remote mounts.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.21]
* du now silently ignores all directory cycles due to bind mounts.
Previously it would issue a warning and exit with a failure status.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.1 and partially fixed in coreutils-8.23]
* chroot again calls chroot(DIR) and chdir("/"), even if DIR is "/".
This handles separate bind mounted "/" trees, and environments
depending on the implicit chdir("/").
[bugs introduced in coreutils-8.23]
* cp no longer issues an incorrect warning about directory hardlinks when a
source directory is specified multiple times. Now, consistent with other
file types, a warning is issued for source directories with duplicate names,
or with -H the directory is copied again using the symlink name.
* factor avoids writing partial lines, thus supporting parallel operation.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
* head, od, split, tac, tail, and wc no longer mishandle input from files in
/proc and /sys file systems that report somewhat-incorrect file sizes.
* mkdir --parents -Z now correctly sets the context for the last component,
even if the parent directory exists and has a different default context.
[bug introduced with the -Z restorecon functionality in coreutils-8.22]
* numfmt no longer outputs incorrect overflowed values seen with certain
large numbers, or with numbers with increased precision.
[bug introduced when numfmt was added in coreutils-8.21]
* numfmt now handles leading zeros correctly, not counting them when
settings processing limits, and making them optional with floating point.
[bug introduced when numfmt was added in coreutils-8.21]
* paste no longer truncates output for large input files. This would happen
for example with files larger than 4GiB on 32 bit systems with a '\n'
character at the 4GiB position.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
* rm indicates the correct number of arguments in its confirmation prompt,
on all platforms. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
* shuf -i with a single redundant operand, would crash instead of issuing
a diagnostic. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
* tail releases inotify resources when unused. Previously it could exhaust
resources with many files, or with -F if files were replaced many times.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
* tail -f again follows changes to a file after it's renamed.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
* tail --follow no longer misses changes to files if those files were
replaced before inotify watches were created.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
* tail --follow consistently outputs all data for a truncated file.
[bug introduced in the beginning]
* tail --follow=name correctly outputs headers for multiple files
when those files are being created or renamed.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
** New features
* chroot accepts the new --skip-chdir option to not change the working directory
to "/" after changing into the chroot(2) jail, thus retaining the current wor-
king directory. The new option is only permitted if the new root directory is
the old "/", and therefore is useful with the --group and --userspec options.
* dd accepts a new status=progress level to print data transfer statistics
on stderr approximately every second.
* numfmt can now process multiple fields with field range specifications similar
to cut, and supports setting the output precision with the --format option.
* split accepts a new --separator option to select a record separator character
other than the default newline character.
* stty allows setting the "extproc" option where supported, which is
a useful setting with high latency links.
* sync no longer ignores arguments, and syncs each specified file, or with the
--file-system option, the file systems associated with each specified file.
* tee accepts a new --output-error option to control operation with pipes
and output errors in general.
** Changes in behavior
* df no longer suppresses separate exports of the same remote device, as
these are generally explicitly mounted. The --total option does still
suppress duplicate remote file systems.
[suppression was introduced in coreutils-8.21]
* mv no longer supports moving a file to a hardlink, instead issuing an error.
The implementation was susceptible to races in the presence of multiple mv
instances, which could result in both hardlinks being deleted. Also on case
insensitive file systems like HFS, mv would just remove a hardlinked 'file'
if called like `mv file File`. The feature was added in coreutils-5.0.1.
* numfmt --from-unit and --to-unit options now interpret suffixes as SI units,
and IEC (power of 2) units are now specified by appending 'i'.
* tee will exit early if there are no more writable outputs.
* tee does not treat the file operand '-' as meaning standard output any longer,
for better conformance to POSIX. This feature was added in coreutils-5.3.0.
* timeout --foreground no longer sends SIGCONT to the monitored process,
which was seen to cause intermittent issues with GDB for example.
** Improvements
* cp,install,mv will convert smaller runs of NULs in the input to holes,
and cp --sparse=always avoids speculative preallocation on XFS for example.
* cp will read sparse files more efficiently when the destination is a
non regular file. For example when copying a disk image to a device node.
* mv will try a reflink before falling back to a standard copy, which is
more efficient when moving files across BTRFS subvolume boundaries.
* stat and tail now know about IBRIX. stat -f --format=%T now reports the file
system type, and tail -f uses polling for files on IBRIX file systems.
* wc -l processes short lines much more efficiently.
* References from --help and the man pages of utilities have been corrected
in various cases, and more direct links to the corresponding online
documentation are provided.
- Patches adapted because of changed sources:
coreutils-disable_tests.patch
coreutils-i18n.patch
coreutils-misc.patch
coreutils-ocfs2_reflinks.patch
coreutils-remove_hostname_documentation.patch
coreutils-remove_kill_documentation.patch
coreutils-skip-gnulib-test-tls.patch
coreutils-tests-shorten-extreme-factor-tests.patch
sort-keycompare-mb.patch
- Patches removed because they're included in 8.24:
coreutils-chroot-perform-chdir-unless-skip-chdir.patch
coreutils-df-doc-df-a-includes-duplicate-file-systems.patch
coreutils-df-improve-mount-point-selection.patch
coreutils-df-show-all-remote-file-systems.patch
coreutils-df-total-suppress-separate-remotes.patch
coreutils-doc-adjust-reference-to-info-nodes-in-man-pages.patch
coreutils-fix_false_du_failure_on_newer_xfs.patch
coreutils-fix-man-deps.patch
coreutils-tests-aarch64-env.patch
coreutils-tests-make-inotify-rotate-more-robust-and-efficient.patch
coreutils-tests-rm-ext3-perf-increase-timeout.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/coreutils?expand=0&rev=262
patch (in sort.c and the test). Add a comment why to skip the
11a and 11b tests. Refresh with -p0.
* coreutils-fix_false_du_failure_on_newer_xfs.patch: Refresh with -p0.
* coreutils.spec: Remove -p1 patch option for the above 2 patches.
* coreutils-testsuite.spec: Likewise.
* coreutils-disable_tests.patch: Refresh to avoid fuzz.
* coreutils-test_without_valgrind.patch: Refresh.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/coreutils?expand=0&rev=242
- Add coreutils-fix_false_du_failure_on_newer_xfs.patch that fixes a false
negative in the testsuite.
- Add coreutils-disable_tests.patch to not run a tests that fail inside the OBS.
- Add coreutils-test_without_valgrind.patch to not use valgrind in shuf-reservoir.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/coreutils?expand=0&rev=236
- Add upstream patch (coreutils-copy-fix-selinux-existing-dirs.patch):
cp -a: set the correct SELinux context on already existing
destination directories (rh#1045122).
- Merge I18n fixes from Fedora (coreutils-i18n.patch):
* sort: fix sorting by non-first field (rh#1003544)
* cut: avoid using slower multi-byte code in non-UTF-8 locales
(rh#1021403, rh#499220).
- Testsuite: skip some tests:
* coreutils-skip-some-sort-tests-on-ppc.patch: Add patch to
skip 2 valgrind'ed sort tests on ppc/ppc64.
* coreutils-skip-gnulib-test-tls.patch: Add patch to skip
the gnulib test 'test-tls' on i586, x86_64, ppc and ppc64.
* coreutils-tests-avoid-FP-cp-cpuinfo.patch: Add patch to skip a
test when cp fails for /proc/cpuinfo which happens on aarch64.
* coreutils-tests-shorten-extreme-factor-tests.patch: Add patch
to skip most of the extreme-expensive factor tests.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/213254
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/coreutils?expand=0&rev=221
The "gnulib" package contains a number of floating-point test cases
that do not work correctly with the PowerPC long double ("double double")
format. These tests "accidentally" succeeded anyway in the big-endian
variant, but are now actually failing in little-endian mode.
As is usual for gnulib, those tests end up copied into the source code
of various packages that use gnulib, including coreutils, findutils,
grep, and libunistring.
A patch to fix the tests for ppc64le has been submitted to upstream
to the bug-gnulib mailing list. We'll work with upstream of the
other affected packages to make sure the copies are refreshed.
- coreutils-gnulib-tests-ppc64le.patch: Fix imported gnulib long double
math tests for little-endian PowerPC.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/211829
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/coreutils?expand=0&rev=217
