Changelog for coreutils-lang-8.16-5.1.2.noarch.rpm :

* Tue May 15 2012 schwabAATTlinux-m68k.org- Build factor with gmp support
* Mon May 07 2012 pthAATTsuse.de- Two new upstream patches:
* id and groups, when invoked with no user name argument, would print the default group ID listed in the password database, and sometimes that ID would be neither real nor effective. For example, when run set-GID, or in a session for which the default group has just been changed, the new group ID would be listed, even though it is not yet effective.
* \'cp S D\' is no longer subject to a race: if an existing D were removed between the initial stat and subsequent open-without-O_CREAT, cp would fail with a confusing diagnostic saying that the destination, D, was not found. Now, in this unusual case, it retries the open (but with O_CREAT), and hence usually succeeds. With NFS attribute caching, the condition was particularly easy to trigger, since there, the removal of D could precede the initial stat. [This bug was present in \"the beginning\".] (bnc#760926).
* Fri Apr 27 2012 pthAATTsuse.de- Make stdbuf binary find libstdbuf.so by looking in the right path (bnc#741241).
* Mon Apr 16 2012 pthAATTsuse.de- Update to 8.16: - Improvements:
* As a GNU extension, \'chmod\', \'mkdir\', and \'install\' now accept operators \'-\', \'+\', \'=\' followed by octal modes;
* Also, ordinary numeric modes with five or more digits no longer preserve setuid and setgid bits, so that \'chmod 00755 FOO\' now clears FOO\'s setuid and setgid bits.
* dd now accepts the count_bytes, skip_bytes iflags and the seek_bytes oflag, to more easily allow processing portions of a file.
* dd now accepts the conv=sparse flag to attempt to create sparse output, by seeking rather than writing to the output file.
* ln now accepts the --relative option, to generate a relative symbolic link to a target, irrespective of how the target is specified.
* split now accepts an optional \"from\" argument to - -numeric-suffixes, which changes the start number from the default of 0.
* split now accepts the --additional-suffix option, to append an additional static suffix to output file names.
* basename now supports the -a and -s options, which allow processing of more than one argument at a time. Also the complementary -z option was added to delimit output items with the NUL character.
* dirname now supports more than one argument. Also the complementary z option was added to delimit output items with the NUL character. - Bug fixes
* du --one-file-system (-x) would ignore any non-directory specified on the command line. For example, \"touch f; du -x f\" would print nothing. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.15]
* mv now lets you move a symlink onto a same-inode destination file that has two or more hard links.
* \"mv A B\" could succeed, yet A would remain.
* realpath no longer mishandles a root directory. - Improvements
* ls can be much more efficient, especially with large directories on file systems for which getfilecon-, ACL-check- and XATTR- check-induced syscalls fail with ENOTSUP or similar.
* \'realpath --relative-base=dir\' in isolation now implies \'--relative-to=dir\' instead of causing a usage failure.
* split now supports an unlimited number of split files as default behavior. For a detaild list se NEWS in the documentation.- Add up-to-date german translation.
* Mon Apr 16 2012 pthAATTsuse.de- Add two upstream patches that speed up ls (bnc#752943):
* Cache (l)getfilecon calls to avoid the vast majority of the failing underlying getxattr syscalls.
* Avoids always-failing queries for whether a file has a nontrivial ACL and for whether a file has certain \"capabilities\".
* Fri Mar 09 2012 pthAATTsuse.de- Update to 8.15:
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* New programs realpath: print resolved file names.
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* Bug fixes du --one-file-system (-x) would ignore any non-directory specified on the command line. For example, \"touch f; du -x f\" would print nothing. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.14] du -x no longer counts root directories of other file systems. [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0] ls --color many-entry-directory was uninterruptible for too long [bug introduced in coreutils-5.2.1] ls\'s -k option no longer affects how ls -l outputs file sizes. It now affects only the per-directory block counts written by -l, and the sizes written by -s. This is for compatibility with BSD and with POSIX 2008. Because -k is no longer equivalent to - -block-size=1KiB, a new long option --kibibyte stands for -k. [bug introduced in coreutils-4.5.4] ls -l would leak a little memory (security context string) for each nonempty directory listed on the command line, when using SELinux. [bug probably introduced in coreutils-6.10 with SELinux support] split -n 1/2 FILE no longer fails when operating on a growing file, or (on some systems) when operating on a non-regular file like /dev/zero. It would report \"/dev/zero: No such file or directory\" even though the file obviously exists. Same for -n l/2. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8, with the addition of the -n option] stat -f now recognizes the FhGFS and PipeFS file system types. tac no longer fails to handle two or more non-seekable inputs [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0] tail -f no longer tries to use inotify on GPFS or FhGFS file systems [you might say this was introduced in coreutils-7.5, along with inotify support, but the new magic numbers weren\'t in the usual places then.]
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* Changes in behavior df avoids long UUID-including file system names in the default listing. With recent enough kernel/tools, these long names would be used, pushing second and subsequent columns far to the right. Now, when a long name refers to a symlink, and no file systems are specified, df prints the usually-short referent instead. tail -f now uses polling (not inotify) when any of its file arguments resides on a file system of unknown type. In addition, for each such argument, tail -f prints a warning with the FS type magic number and a request to report it to the bug-reporting address.- Bring german message catalog up to date.- Include upstream fix for du.- Include upstream patch fixing basename documentation.
* Mon Feb 06 2012 rschweikertAATTsuse.com- keep binaries in /usr (UserMerge project)
* Mon Dec 19 2011 lnusselAATTsuse.de- Adjust license for coreutils-8.6-honor-settings-in-etc-default-su-resp-etc-login.defs.diff [bnc#735081].
* Fri Dec 02 2011 cfarrellAATTsuse.com- license update: GPL-3.0+ Consolidate to GPL-3.0+ and use SPDX format (http://www.spdx.org/licenses). More or less compatible to Fedora package (who don^t use full SPDX implementation)
* Wed Nov 30 2011 cooloAATTsuse.com- add automake as buildrequire to avoid implicit dependency
* Mon Oct 17 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Add upstream patch that fixes three bugs in tac: - remove sole use of sprintf in favor of stpcpy - don\'t misbehave with multiple non-seekable inputs - don\'t leak a file descriptor for each non-seekable input
* Fri Oct 14 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Uniformly use german quotes not french ones in german messages.
* Thu Oct 13 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Update to 8.14. Changes since 8.12: Bug fixes: - ls --dereference no longer outputs erroneous \"argetm\" strings for dangling symlinks when an \'ln=target\' entry is in $LS_COLORS. [bug introduced in fileutils-4.0] - ls -lL symlink once again properly prints \"+\" when the referent has an ACL. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.13] - sort -g no longer infloops for certain inputs containing NaNs [bug introduced in coreutils-8.5] - chown and chgrp with the -v --from= options, now output the correct owner. I.E. for skipped files, the original ownership is output, not the new one. [bug introduced in sh-utils-2.0g] - cp -r could mistakenly change the permissions of an existing destination directory. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.8] - cp -u -p would fail to preserve one hard link for each up-to-date copy of a src-hard-linked name in the destination tree. I.e., if s/a and s/b are hard-linked and dst/s/a is up to date, \"cp -up s dst\" would copy s/b to dst/s/b rather than simply linking dst/s/b to dst/s/a. [This bug appears to have been present in \"the beginning\".] - fts-using tools (rm, du, chmod, chgrp, chown, chcon) no longer use memory proportional to the number of entries in each directory they process. Before, rm -rf 4-million-entry-directory would consume about 1GiB of memory. Now, it uses less than 30MB, no matter how many entries there are. [this bug was inherent in the use of fts: thus, for rm the bug was introduced in coreutils-8.0. The prior implementation of rm did not use as much memory. du, chmod, chgrp and chown started using fts in 6.0. chcon was added in coreutils-6.9.91 with fts support. ] - pr -T no longer ignores a specified LAST_PAGE to stop at. [bug introduced in textutils-1.19q] - printf \'%d\' \'\"\' no longer accesses out-of-bounds memory in the diagnostic. [bug introduced in sh-utils-1.16] - split --number l/... no longer creates extraneous files in certain cases. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8] - timeout now sends signals to commands that create their own process group. timeout is no longer confused when starting off with a child process. [bugs introduced in coreutils-7.0] - unexpand -a now aligns correctly when there are spaces spanning a tabstop, followed by a tab. In that case a space was dropped, causing misalignment. We also now ensure that a space never precedes a tab. [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0] New features: - date now accepts ISO 8601 date-time strings with \"T\" as the separator. It has long parsed dates like \"2004-02-29 16:21:42\" with a space between the date and time strings. Now it also parses \"2004-02-29T16:21:42\" and fractional-second and time-zone-annotated variants like \"2004-02-29T16:21:42.333-07:00\" - md5sum accepts the new --strict option. With --check, it makes the tool exit non-zero for any invalid input line, rather than just warning. This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum. - split accepts a new --filter=CMD option. With it, split filters output through CMD. CMD may use the $FILE environment variable, which is set to the nominal output file name for each invocation of CMD. For example, to split a file into 3 approximately equal parts, which are then compressed: split -n3 --filter=\'xz > $FILE.xz\' big Note the use of single quotes, not double quotes. That creates files named xaa.xz, xab.xz and xac.xz. - timeout accepts a new --foreground option, to support commands not started directly from a shell prompt, where the command is interactive or needs to receive signals initiated from the terminal. Improvements: - md5sum --check now supports the -r format from the corresponding BSD tool. This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum. - pwd now works also on systems without openat. On such systems, pwd would fail when run from a directory whose absolute name contained more than PATH_MAX / 3 components. The df, stat and readlink programs are also affected due to their use of the canonicalize_
* functions. - join --check-order now prints \"join: FILE:LINE_NUMBER: bad_line\" for an unsorted input, rather than e.g., \"join: file 1 is not in sorted order\". - shuf outputs small subsets of large permutations much more efficiently. For example `shuf -i1-$((2
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*32-1)) -n2` no longer exhausts memory. - stat -f now recognizes the GPFS, MQUEUE and PSTOREFS file system types. - timeout now supports sub-second timeouts. Changes in behavior: - chmod, chown and chgrp now output the original attributes in messages, when -v or -c specified. - cp -au (where --preserve=links is implicit) may now replace newer files in the destination, to mirror hard links from the source.
* Sat Sep 17 2011 jengelhAATTmedozas.de- Remove redundant tags/sections from specfile
* Tue Aug 02 2011 lchiquittoAATTsuse.com- file-has-acl: use acl_extended_file_nofollow if available to avoid triggering unwanted AutoFS mounts (bnc#701659).
* Tue May 03 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Remove services.
* Tue May 03 2011 roAATTsuse.de- delete coreutils-testsuite.spec
* Thu Apr 28 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Update to 8.12:
* Bug fixes tail\'s --follow=name option no longer implies --retry on systems with inotify support. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
* Changes in behavior cp\'s extent-based (FIEMAP) copying code is more reliable in the face of varying and undocumented file system semantics: - it no longer treats unwritten extents specially - a FIEMAP-based extent copy always uses the FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC flag. Before, it would incur the performance penalty of that sync only for 2.6.38 and older kernels. We thought all problems would be resolved for 2.6.39. - it now attempts a FIEMAP copy only on a file that appears sparse. Sparse files are relatively unusual, and the copying code incurs the performance penalty of the now-mandatory sync only for them.- Add complete german meesage catalogue.
* Thu Apr 14 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Update to 8.11:
* Bug fixes cp -a --link would not create a hardlink to a symlink, instead copying the symlink and then not preserving its timestamp. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.0] cp now avoids FIEMAP issues with BTRFS before Linux 2.6.38, which could result in corrupt copies of sparse files. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.10] cut could segfault when invoked with a user-specified output delimiter and an unbounded range like \"-f1234567890-\". [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0] du would infloop when given --files0-from=DIR [bug introduced in coreutils-7.1] sort no longer spawns 7 worker threads to sort 16 lines [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6] touch built on Solaris 9 would segfault when run on Solaris 10 [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8] wc would dereference a NULL pointer upon an early out-of-memory error [bug introduced in coreutils-7.1]
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* New features dd now accepts the \'nocache\' flag to the iflag and oflag options, which will discard any cache associated with the files, or processed portion thereof. dd now warns that \'iflag=fullblock\' should be used, in various cases where partial reads can cause issues.
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* Changes in behavior cp now avoids syncing files when possible, when doing a FIEMAP copy. The sync is only needed on Linux kernels before 2.6.39. [The sync was introduced in coreutils-8.10] cp now copies empty extents efficiently, when doing a FIEMAP copy. It no longer reads the zero bytes from the input, and also can efficiently create a hole in the output file when --sparse=always is specified. df now aligns columns consistently, and no longer wraps entries with longer device identifiers, over two lines. install now rejects its long-deprecated --preserve_context option. Use --preserve-context instead. test now accepts \"==\" as a synonym for \"=\"
* Tue Apr 05 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Adapt coreutils-testsuite.spec to changes in patches.
* Tue Apr 05 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Remove unneeded split_suffix patch.
* Mon Apr 04 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Remove the last patch as it isn\'t needed. It was an old patch that removed the documentation for both hostname and hostid. I\'ve modified that to only remove the hostname documentation.
* Fri Apr 01 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Readd documentation of hostname and hostid to texinfo documentation.- Remove obsolete and unused german translation.
* Thu Feb 10 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Update to 8.10:
* Bug fixes - du would abort with a failed assertion when two conditions are met: part of the hierarchy being traversed is moved to a higher level in the directory tree, and there is at least one more command line directory argument following the one containing the moved sub-tree. [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0] - join --header now skips the ordering check for the first line even if the other file is empty. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.5] - rm -f no longer fails for EINVAL or EILSEQ on file systems that reject file names invalid for that file system. - uniq -f NUM no longer tries to process fields after end of line. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.0]
* New features - cp now copies sparse files efficiently on file systems with FIEMAP support (ext4, btrfs, xfs, ocfs2). Before, it had to read 2^20 bytes when copying a 1MiB sparse file. Now, it copies bytes only for the non-sparse sections of a file. Similarly, to induce a hole in the output file, it had to detect a long sequence of zero bytes. Now, it knows precisely where each hole in an input file is, and can reproduce them efficiently in the output file. mv also benefits when it resorts to copying, e.g., between file systems. - join now supports -o \'auto\' which will automatically infer the output format from the first line in each file, to ensure the same number of fields are output for each line.
* Changes in behavior - join no longer reports disorder when one of the files is empty. This allows one to use join as a field extractor like: join -a1 -o 1.3,1.1 - /dev/null- Add upstream patch that fixes a segfault in cut.- Add upstream patch to fix sparse fiemap tests.- Fix i18n patch for join.
* Fri Jan 14 2011 uliAATTsuse.de- sort threading still broken, it deadlocks occasionally; set default number of threads to 1 as a workaround
* Wed Jan 05 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Update to 8.9: Bug fixes split no longer creates files with a suffix length that is dependent on the number of bytes or lines per file. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8]
* Mon Jan 03 2011 pthAATTsuse.de- Update to 8.8. Changes since 8.6: Bug fixes: cp -u no longer does unnecessary copying merely because the source has finer-grained time stamps than the destination. od now prints floating-point numbers without losing information, and it no longer omits spaces between floating-point columns in some cases. sort -u with at least two threads could attempt to read through a corrupted pointer. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6] sort with at least two threads and with blocked output would busy-loop (spinlock) all threads, often using 100% of available CPU cycles to do no work. I.e., \"sort < big-file | less\" could waste a lot of power. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6] sort with at least two threads no longer segfaults due to use of pointers into the stack of an expired thread. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6] sort --compress no longer mishandles subprocesses\' exit statuses, no longer hangs indefinitely due to a bug in waiting for subprocesses, and no longer generates many more than NMERGE subprocesses. sort -m -o f f ... f no longer dumps core when file descriptors are limited. csplit no longer corrupts heap when writing more than 999 files, nor does it leak memory for every chunk of input processed [the bugs were present in the initial implementation] tail -F once again notices changes in a currently unavailable remote directory [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5] Changes in behavior: sort will not create more than 8 threads by default due to diminishing performance gains. Also the --parallel option is no longer restricted to the number of available processors. cp --attributes-only now completely overrides --reflink. Previously a reflink was needlessly attempted. stat\'s %X, %Y, and %Z directives once again print only the integer part of seconds since the epoch. This reverts a change from coreutils-8.6, that was deemed unnecessarily disruptive. To obtain a nanosecond-precision time stamp for %X use %.X; if you want (say) just 3 fractional digits, use %.3X. Likewise for %Y and %Z. stat\'s new %W format directive would print floating point seconds. However, with the above change to %X, %Y and %Z, we\'ve made %W work the same way as the others. New features: split accepts the --number option to generate a specific number of files.- Add a complete german translation.- Add upstreams patch for suffix calculation in split.
* Wed Dec 22 2010 pthAATTnovell.com- Use software services.- Remove coreutils tarball.- Don\'t use version specific patches as it breaks automatic updates.
* Wed Nov 17 2010 cooloAATTnovell.com- remove the prerequire on permissions - this will create a bad cycle, coreutils is just too core
* Tue Nov 16 2010 lnusselAATTsuse.de- split pam patch into separate independent files so the main feature can be shared with other distros- don\'t hard require coreutils-lang
* Thu Nov 11 2010 pthAATTsuse.de- Update to 8.6: o bugfixes
* du no longer multiply counts a file that is a directory or whose link count is 1.
* du -H and -L now consistently count pointed-to files instead of symbolic links, and correctly diagnose dangling symlinks.
* du --ignore=D now ignores directory D even when that directory is found to be part of a directory cycle.
* split now diagnoses read errors rather than silently exiting.
* tac would perform a double-free when given an input line longer than 16KiB.
* tail -F once again notices changes in a currently unavailable directory, and works around a Linux kernel bug where inotify runs out of resources.
* tr now consistently handles case conversion character classes. o New features
* cp now accepts the --attributes-only option to not copy file data.
* du recognizes -d N as equivalent to --max-depth=N
* sort now accepts the --debug option, to highlight the part of the line significant in the sort, and warns about questionable options.
* sort now supports -d, -f, -i, -R, and -V in any combination.
* stat now accepts the %m format directive to output the mount point for a file. It also accepts the %w and %W format directives for outputting the birth time of a file, if one is available. o Changes in behavior
* df now consistently prints the device name for a bind mounted file, rather than its aliased target.
* du now uses less than half as much memory when operating on trees with many hard-linked files.
* ls -l now uses the traditional three field time style rather than the wider two field numeric ISO style in locales where a style has not been specified.
* rm\'s -d now evokes an error; before, it was silently ignored.
* sort -g now uses long doubles for greater range and precision.
* sort -h no longer rejects numbers with leading or trailing \".\", and no longer accepts numbers with multiple \".\". It now considers all zeros to be equal.
* sort now uses the number of available processors to parallelize the sorting operation.
* stat now provides translated output when no format is specified.
* stat no longer accepts the --context (-Z) option.
* stat no longer accepts the %C directive when the --file-system option is in effect.
* stat now outputs the full sub-second resolution for the atime, mtime, and ctime values since the Epoch, when using the %X, %Y, and %Z directives of the --format option.
* touch\'s --file option is no longer recognized. Use --reference=F (-r) instead.
* truncate now supports setting file sizes relative to a reference file. Also errors are no longer suppressed for unsupported file types, and relative sizes are restricted to supported file types. See NEWS in the package documentation for more verbose description.- Add a man page for [ (a link to test1).- Fix assignment of a char to a char
* in join.c- Add permissions verifying for su.- Use RELRO for su.
* Tue Aug 31 2010 ajAATTsuse.de- Recommend instead of require lang package since it\'s not mandatory.
* Thu Jul 01 2010 jengelhAATTmedozas.de- Use %_smp_mflags
* Tue Jun 29 2010 pthAATTsuse.de- Fix \'sort -V\' not working because the i18n (mb handling) patch wasn\'t updated to handle the new option (bnc#615073).
* Mon Jun 28 2010 pthAATTsuse.de- Fix typo in spec file (% missing from version).
* Fri Jun 18 2010 kukukAATTsuse.de- Last part of fix for [bnc#533249]: Don\'t run account part of PAM stack for su as root. Requires pam > 1.1.1.
* Fri May 07 2010 pthAATTnovell.com- Update to 8.5: Bug fixes
* cp and mv once again support preserving extended attributes.
* cp now preserves \"capabilities\" when also preserving file ownership.7
* ls --color once again honors the \'NORMAL\' dircolors directive. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.11]
* sort -M now handles abbreviated months that are aligned using blanks in the locale database. Also locales with 8 bit characters are handled correctly, including multi byte locales with the caveat that multi byte characters are matched case sensitively.
* sort again handles obsolescent key formats (+POS -POS) correctly. Previously if -POS was specified, 1 field too many was used in the sort. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.2] New features
* join now accepts the --header option, to treat the first line of each file as a header line to be joined and printed unconditionally.
* timeout now accepts the --kill-after option which sends a kill signal to the monitored command if it\'s still running the specified duration after the initial signal was sent.
* who: the \"+/-\" --mesg (-T) indicator of whether a user/tty is accepting messages could be incorrectly listed as \"+\", when in fact, the user was not accepting messages (mesg no). Before, who would examine only the permission bits, and not consider the group of the TTY device file. Thus, if a login tty\'s group would change somehow e.g., to \"root\", that would make it unwritable (via write(1)) by normal users, in spite of whatever the permission bits might imply. Now, when configured using the - -with-tty-group[=NAME] option, who also compares the group of the TTY device with NAME (or \"tty\" if no group name is specified). Changes in behavior
* ls --color no longer emits the final 3-byte color-resetting escape sequence when it would be a no-op.
* join -t \'\' no longer emits an error and instead operates on each line as a whole (even if they contain NUL characters). For other changes since 7.1 see NEWS.- Split-up coreutils-%%{version}.diff as far as possible.- Prefix all patches with coreutils-.- All patches have the .patch suffix.- Use the i18n patch from Archlinux as it fixes at least one test suite failure.
* Tue May 04 2010 pthAATTnovell.com- Fix security bug in distcheck (bnc#564373).- refresh patches to apply cleanly.
* Tue Mar 02 2010 lnusselAATTsuse.de- enable hostid (bnc#584562)
* Sat Dec 12 2009 jengelhAATTmedozas.de- add baselibs.conf as a source
* Mon Mar 23 2009 pthAATTsuse.de- Add .ogv to dircolors (bnc#487561).