Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.23.237-eff51

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Benno Schulenberg
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 2015-07-01 17:35, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> We plan to release coreutils-8.24 in the next couple of days so any
>> testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
>> would be most welcome.
>
> $ rm -r coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/
> rm: remove write-protected regular file 
> `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/src/cu-progs.mk'? y
> rm: remove write-protected regular file 
> `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/src/single-binary.mk'? y
> rm: remove write-protected regular file 
> `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/src/fs-is-local.h'? y
> rm: remove write-protected regular file 
> `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/src/primes.h'? y
> rm: remove write-protected regular file `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/src/fs.h'? 
> y
> rm: remove write-protected regular file 
> `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/src/dircolors.h'? y
> rm: remove write-protected regular file `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/THANKS'? y
> rm: remove write-protected regular file 
> `coreutils-8.23.245-8bf2af/m4/cu-progs.m4'? y
>
> It would be nicer if these files were not read-only in the tarball.

Hi Benno,
They are read-only to indicate that they are generated.
You can remove them without interaction by adding rm's -f option.