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2008-02-07We *do* need two different version files.Jim Meyering
One for tarball-only, the other to be updated any time we get a new value of $(VERSION). * Makefile.am (dist-hook): Create .tarball-version in dist tarball. * GNUmakefile (_curr-ver): Make git-version-gen use it. * .gitignore: Ignore it.
2008-02-07Fix a typo in description of size suffixes: s/GB/G/.Jim Meyering
* doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation): Spotted by Bert Wesarg.
2008-02-07NEWS [6.9.90]: head, od, split and tail accept the standard size suffixesJim Meyering
2008-02-07mkdir, split: write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr.Steven Schubiger
* src/mkdir.c (verbose_output): New function. (announce_mkdir): Use it. * src/split.c (usage): Update. * src/split.c (cwrite): Write to stdout, not stderr. * doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Remove the mention of --verbose output being printed to stderr. * tests/mkdir/p-v: Redirect stdout, not stderr. * tests/misc/split-a: Likewise. * NEWS: Mention this change. * TODO: Remove this item.
2008-02-04Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove stale comment.Jim Meyering
2008-02-02Clarify a comment.Jim Meyering
* tests/sort/Test.pm: Replace a vague ChangeLog reference with a URL.
2008-01-31Improve wording of date and time man page.Bob Proulx
* man/date.x: Improve compact description of the --date=STRING. * man/touch.x: Likewise. Suggested by A. Costa.
2008-01-31Remove alignment constraint from the sha*_read_ctx functions.Jim Meyering
* lib/sha256.c (set_uint32): New function. (sha256_read_ctx, sha224_read_ctx): Use it. * lib/sha512.c (set_uint64): New function. (sha512_read_ctx, sha384_read_ctx): Use it. * lib/sha256.h: Remove warning about alignment constraint. * lib/sha512.h: Likewise. Prompted by similar changes in gnulib's sha1 and md[45] modules.
2008-01-31Adapt to new version of vc-list-files.Jim Meyering
* tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Adapt to new constraint that vc-list-files be run only from $(top_srcdir).
2008-01-31Pull vc-list-files from gnulib.Jim Meyering
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add vc-list-files. * build-aux/vc-list-files: Remove file.
2008-01-31Improve the cp/parent-perm test.Jim Meyering
* tests/cp/parent-perm: Also check that perms of existing dest dirs are changed to match those of corresponding src dir
2008-01-31Don't modify argv in dd due to ',' in arguments.Paul Eggert
* src/dd.c: Include quotearg.h. (operand_matches): New function. (parse_symbols, operand_is): Use it. (parse_symbols): 1st arg is now const pointer. Don't modify it. msgid arg is now just the message, not a format. (scanargs): Add some 'const's to check for problems like the above.
2008-01-30* src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets, again.Jim Meyering
2008-01-30Now that system.h defines is_empty_dir, include "openat.h".Jim Meyering
* src/system.h: Include "openat.h" here, ... * src/chcon.c: ... not here. * src/chmod.c: Likewise. * src/chown-core.c: Likewise. * src/remove.c: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2008-01-30* src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets.Jim Meyering
2008-01-30Improve "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty"Jim Meyering
* src/rmdir.c (remove_parents, main): With --ignore-fail-on-non-empty, suppress a diagnostic also for other errno values, which can arise with read-only media or when the parent directory has the immutable attribute (set via chattr +i). (errno_may_be_empty, ignorable_failure): New functions. * src/remove.c (is_empty_dir): Move function to ... * src/system.h (is_empty_dir): ...here, and make it inline. Suggested by Josselin Mouette in <http://bugs.debian.org/363011> via Bob Proulx. * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
2008-01-30Don't modify argv in dd.Paul Eggert
* src/dd.c (operand_is): New function. (scanargs): Use it so that we don't need to modify argv, as a nicety. Problem reported by Adam Goode in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00264.html>.
2008-01-29* Makefile.am (BUILT_SOURCES): Ensure that .version exists.Jim Meyering
Reported by Bob Proulx.
2008-01-29Improve the man pages of --date=STRING for 'date' and 'touch'.Bob Proulx
* man/date.x: Add a compact description of the --date=STRING. * man/touch.x: Likewise. Reported by A. Costa in http://bugs.debian.org/363011
2008-01-29Improve the description of when dd outputs its final statistics.Michael Stone
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Say that dd prints stats upon normal termination and upon SIGINT. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2008-01-29Avoid "make distcheck" failure: newly-created man/*.1 files not removedJim Meyering
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .version. (.version): New rule. (dist-hook): Don't create $(distdir)/.version here, now that it's being distributed. * man/Makefile.am (common_dep): Use ../.version, not ../VERSION. (../VERSION): Remove rule. * GNUmakefile (dummy): Create .version, not VERSION. Add an extra "...:= $(shell..." statement to ensure that .version exists even when the preceding code is not run. * .gitignore: Remove both .version and VERSION. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2008-01-29ls: don't segfault on files in /proc with an old libselinuxJim Meyering
* src/ls.c (gobble_file): Work around a bug in libselinux1-2.0.15 whereby getfilecon returns 0 yet sets the context to NULL. Reported by Jan Moringen via Michael Stone in http://bugs.debian.org/463043 * tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add proc-selinux-segfault. * tests/ls/proc-selinux-segfault: Test for the above fix. * NEWS: Mention the fix.
2008-01-26Work around Darwin9's set-GID-like group ownership inheritance.Jim Meyering
This avoids another spurious Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1) test failure. * tests/cp/preserve-gid: Accept a group ID of 0, as well. Reported by Elias Pipping.
2008-01-26Emit "info coreutils 'PROG invocation'" into the man page,Jim Meyering
rather than just "info PROG". The latter would often fail or simply display the man page. * man/help2man: Change the template. Prompted by http://bugs.debian.org/399684
2008-01-26chcon: correct description of --no-dereference (-h) option.Jim Meyering
* src/chcon.c (usage): Remove invalid reference to lchown. Reported by Göran Uddeborg.
2008-01-26Ensure that each version string change propagates to man pages.Jim Meyering
* man/Makefile.am (common_dep): Don't depend on configure.ac for version changes. Instead, depend on ../VERSION. (../VERSION): New rule. * Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): Define. * GNUmakefile: Update ./VERSION. * .gitignore: List VERSION. Reported by Sven Joachim.
2008-01-26Avoid cp/preserve-gid test failure on Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1)Jim Meyering
* tests/cp/preserve-gid: Set group as well as owner on ".". Reported by Elias Pipping.
2008-01-26Improve a warning about non-portable "mv" usage.Jim Meyering
* doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Adjust the warning: moving a dir-symlink-specified-with-a-trailing-slash works in a surprising manner only on some systems. Reported by Tomas Pospisek in http://bugs.debian.org/343652.
2008-01-26src/dircolors.hin (TERM): Add jfbterm.Mike Frysinger
2008-01-26Clean up build-related rules.Jim Meyering
* Makefile.cfg (gnulib_dir): Update comment. * Makefile.maint (announcement) [cl_date, utc_date]: Don't set now-unused variables.
2008-01-26TODO: Update the note on getgrouplist.Jim Meyering
2008-01-26Add a ";", so "make install" works with --enable-install-program=su.Zvi Har'El
* src/Makefile.am (install_su): Add a semicolon.
2008-01-26Avoid misinterpreting mgetgroups failure in running root-only tests.Jim Meyering
* src/setuidgid.c (main): Don't misinterpret as size_t an error return from mgetgroups. Reported by Theodoros V. Kalamatianos.
2008-01-23* README: Remove/convert a few stray mentions of CVS.Jim Meyering
2008-01-22Require automake-1.10.1, for its support of dist-lzma.Jim Meyering
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Require 1.10.1.
2008-01-22.prev-version: Record version: 6.10.Jim Meyering
2008-01-22Version 6.10Jim Meyering
2008-01-22* NEWS: Record release date.Jim Meyering
2008-01-22* README-hacking: Update to reflect existence of automake-1.10.1.Jim Meyering
2008-01-18Update README.Jim Meyering
* README: Remove a note about failing tests on SunOS 4. On Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1), you'll need --disable-acl. (Running tests as root): Recommend using "check-root", not "check".
2008-01-17Do not define-away __attribute__ when __STRICT_ANSI__ is set.Jim Meyering
* src/system.h (__attribute__): Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ disjunct. It has been unnecessary since approximately gcc-2.6, and now, leaving it would cause gcc -Werror -ansi to fail to compile csplit.c. * gl/lib/randread.c (__attribute__): Likewise.
2008-01-16NEWS: Mention the configure.ac fix.Jim Meyering
2008-01-16* TODO: Add an introduction.Jim Meyering
Remove a few entries. Update a few others.
2008-01-13Remove each output redirection target before writing to it.Jim Meyering
* tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Remove t1 and t2 _first_, in case they exist beforehand and are not writable. * build-aux/check.mk (am__check_pre): Likewise, remove $@-t.
2008-01-13* configure.ac: Correct a non-portable use of sed.Elias Pipping
2008-01-12* src/dircolors.hin (image formats): Add the .svg suffix.Mike Frysinger
2008-01-12Use new version of announce-gen.Jim Meyering
* Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove use of the --gnulib-snapshot-time-stamp option. Use new --gnulib-version option instead. (gnulib-version): New variable.
2008-01-12.prev-version: Record previous version: 6.9.92.Jim Meyering
2008-01-12Version 6.9.92Jim Meyering
2008-01-11tests/tr/Test.pm: Prefer en_US.ISO-8859-1 to en_US.iso88591.Jim Meyering
Suggestions from James Youngman and Pádraig Brady in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12218/focus=12227
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