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2008-02-10Generate ChangeLog from git log.Jim Meyering
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gitlog-to-changelog. Ensure that ChangeLog exists, for automake. * Makefile.am (gen-ChangeLog): New rule. (dist-hook): Depend on it. (EXTRA_DIST): Add ChangeLog-2006, ChangeLog-2007, ChangeLog-2008. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2008-02-10Remove ChangeLog, dividing its content into ChangeLog-200?Jim Meyering
* ChangeLog: Remove file. * ChangeLog-2005: Prepend the 2005 entries. * ChangeLog-2006: New file. * ChangeLog-2007: New file. * ChangeLog-2008: New file. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2008-02-10* ChangeLog: Manually update copyright notice at *bottom*.Jim Meyering
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2008-02-09tests: rm/fail-eperm: require-non-root in perl, not shJim Meyering
Since it creates no temporaries and since it requires non-root, do the require-non-root bit in perl, rather than using test-lib.sh.
2008-02-09tests: Remove priv-check. Use new require_root_ function instead.Jim Meyering
* tests/priv-check: Remove file. * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove priv-check. * tests/test-lib.sh (require_root_): New function. Use this function rather than sourcing the priv-check file. * tests/sample-test: Use require_root_ rather than priv-check. * tests/chown/basic: Likewise. * tests/cp/cp-a-selinux: Likewise. * tests/cp/preserve-gid: Likewise. * tests/cp/special-bits: Likewise. * tests/ls/nameless-uid: Likewise. * tests/misc/chcon: Likewise. * tests/mkdir/writable-under-readonly: Likewise. * tests/mv/sticky-to-xpart: Likewise. * tests/rm/fail-2eperm: Likewise. * tests/rm/no-give-up: Likewise. * tests/rm/one-file-system: Likewise. * tests/tail-2/append-only: Likewise. * tests/touch/now-owned-by-other: Likewise. * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Use skip_if_root_ rather than priv-check. * Makefile.maint (sc_root_tests): Reflect this change: search for the new function name.
2008-02-09tests: factor out the perl-requiring code in many test scriptsJim Meyering
* tests/require-perl: New file. * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add require-perl. * tests/dd/skip-seek: Use it, and remove manual tests. * tests/du/files0-from: Likewise. * tests/ls/nameless-uid: Likewise. * tests/misc/base64: Likewise. * tests/misc/basename: Likewise. * tests/misc/cut: Likewise. * tests/misc/date: Likewise. * tests/misc/dircolors: Likewise. * tests/misc/dirname: Likewise. * tests/misc/expand: Likewise. * tests/misc/expr: Likewise. * tests/misc/factor: Likewise. * tests/misc/fmt: Likewise. * tests/misc/fold: Likewise. * tests/misc/head-elide-tail: Likewise. * tests/misc/ls-misc: Likewise. * tests/misc/md5sum: Likewise. * tests/misc/md5sum-newline: Likewise. * tests/misc/mktemp: Likewise. * tests/misc/od: Likewise. * tests/misc/paste-no-nl: Likewise. * tests/misc/pr: Likewise. * tests/misc/pwd-long: Likewise. * tests/misc/seq: Likewise. * tests/misc/sha1sum: Likewise. * tests/misc/sha1sum-vec: Likewise. * tests/misc/sha224sum: Likewise. * tests/misc/sha256sum: Likewise. * tests/misc/sha384sum: Likewise. * tests/misc/sha512sum: Likewise. * tests/misc/sort-merge: Likewise. * tests/misc/stat-printf: Likewise. * tests/misc/sum: Likewise. * tests/misc/sum-sysv: Likewise. * tests/misc/test-diag: Likewise. * tests/misc/tsort: Likewise. * tests/misc/tty-eof: Likewise. * tests/misc/unexpand: Likewise. * tests/misc/wc-files0-from: Likewise. * tests/misc/xstrtol: Likewise. * tests/mv/i-1: Likewise. * tests/rm/empty-name: Likewise. * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Likewise. * tests/rm/unreadable: Likewise. (EXTRA_DIST): *do* require require-perl as a stand-alone, 'source'able script.
2008-02-09tests: call skip_test_ in place of echo+exit 77Jim Meyering
* tests/mv/no-target-dir: Likewise. * tests/other-fs-tmpdir: Likewise. * tests/rm/empty-name: Likewise. * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Likewise. * tests/rm/inaccessible: Likewise. * tests/rm/isatty: Likewise. * tests/rm/unreadable: Likewise. * tests/setgid-check: Likewise. * tests/sparse-file: Likewise. * tests/strace: Likewise. * tests/tail-2/append-only: Likewise. * tests/tail-2/big-4gb: Likewise. * tests/tail-2/tail-n0f: Likewise. * tests/touch/dangling-symlink: Likewise. * tests/touch/fifo: Likewise. * tests/touch/not-owner: Likewise. * tests/mv/i-3: Likewise. * tests/umask-check: Likewise. * tests/mv/acl: Likewise. * tests/cp/acl: Likewise. * tests/chgrp/deref: Likewise. * tests/chmod/setgid: Likewise. * tests/cp/existing-perm-race: Likewise. * tests/cp/file-perm-race: Likewise. * tests/cp/parent-perm-race: Likewise. * tests/du/2g: Likewise. * tests/du/8gb: Likewise. * tests/du/long-from-unreadable: Likewise. * tests/du/long-sloop: Likewise. * tests/du/slink: Likewise. * tests/ls/nameless-uid: Likewise. * tests/ls/stat-dtype: Likewise. * tests/misc/cat-proc: Likewise. * tests/misc/md5sum-newline: Likewise. * tests/misc/nice: Likewise. * tests/misc/od-x8: Likewise. * tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: Likewise. * tests/misc/selinux: Likewise. * tests/misc/stty-row-col: Likewise. * tests/misc/tac-continue: Likewise. * tests/misc/arch: Likewise, and source $srcdir/../test-lib.sh *before* the use of skip_test_.
2008-02-09tests: move the very-expensive file into test-lib.shJim Meyering
* tests/very-expensive: Remove file. * tests/test-lib.sh (very_expensive_): New function. * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove very-expensive. * tests/cp/perm: Call the new function, rather than sourcing the file. * tests/tail-2/assert: Likewise. * tests/tail-2/assert-2: Likewise. * tests/du/2g: Likewise.
2008-02-09tests: start migrating sourced-file function-like tests into test-lib.sh.Jim Meyering
* tests/acl: Remove file. * tests/test-lib.sh (require_acl_): New function. * tests/cp/acl: Use require_acl_ instead. * tests/mv/acl: Likewise. * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove acl.
2008-02-09tests: mv/acl: Don't mention "yes" as a partition name in diagnostic.Jim Meyering
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".
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