Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.30.79-efa3e.tar.xz

[Kamil Dudka]

On Monday, March 4, 2019 11:18:19 AM CET Pádraig Brady wrote:
> We plan to release coreutils-8.31 in the coming week
> so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
> would be most welcome.
> 
> --------------------------------------
> 
> You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.3 MB) from:
>   https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz
> 
> And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
>   https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
>   MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = ad9c680207e266c6cb59bde2bea4a5af
> 
> --------------------------------------
> 
> To test follow this standard procedure:
> 
>   tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
>   cd coreutils-8.30.79-efa3e/
>   ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes
> 
> Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log

I was able to build it (and run the upstream test-suite) for Fedora 28+:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kdudka/coreutils-next/build/864469/

Our internal static analysis service sees no newly introduced potential
bugs in the source code of coreutils, compared to coreutils-8.30-9.fc30.

Looks good.

Kamil

> --------------------------------------
> 
> Changes in coreutils since v8.30 are summarized at
> https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
> and all commits grouped by author are as follows:
> 
> 
> Achilles Gaikwad (1):
>       id: support multiple specified users
> 
> Assaf Gordon (6):
>       maint: rename base64.c to basenc.c
>       basenc: A new program complementary to base64/base32
>       base64,base32: fix 'extra operand' error message
>       maint: update all copyright year number ranges
>       basenc: allocate buffers on heap
>       env: new options --{default,ignore,block}-signal[=SIG]
> 
> Ayappan (1):
>       tail: fix recent ineffective AIX change
> 
> Bernhard Voelker (10):
>       test: avoid FP in chroot-credentials.sh for different group list order
> test: remove support for the ambigous -a unary operator
>       test: simplify redundant code
>       test: add -N unary operator
>       tests: provide 100% coverage for echo
>       sync: add NEWS and test for the fix in the previous commit
>       maint: mention base32 in the title line of common basenc.c
>       build: use distributed man pages when running with --help fails
>       all: detect --help and --version more consistently
>       doc: further clarify 'yes' alternative in seq invocation
> 
> Bjarni Ingi Gislason (1):
>       doc: fix minor mistakes in "env.x"
> 
> Chih-Hsuan Yen (1):
>       df: avoid multibyte character corruption on macOS
> 
> Daming Yang (1):
>       ls: better align month abbreviations containing digits
> 
> Filipp Gunbin (1):
>       doc: fix typo referencing RFC 2822
> 
> Jim Meyering (1):
>       maint: init.cfg: fix a minor test-related quoting bug
> 
> Martin Bukatovic (1):
>       stat: print birth time on systems supporting statx
> 
> Martin Castillo (1):
>       doc: fix join examples in texinfo
> 
> Paul Eggert (24):
>       build: update gnulib submodule to latest
>       df: avoid multibyte character corruption on macOS
>       df: tune slightly
>       df: omit redundant comparison
>       doc: add chmod examples
>       build: update gnulib submodule to latest
>       cp: 'cp -il A B' no longer fails if user OKs it
>       ln: avoid directory hard-link races
>       doc: tidy up setuid commentary
>       build: update gnulib submodule to latest
>       ln: use linkat and symlinkat
>       sync: fix open fallback bug
>       shred,sort,split: fix ftruncate error reporting
>       shred,sort,split: add NEWS item
>       sleep: improve doc
>       doc: update Goldberg URL
>       printf,seq,sleep,tail,timeout: accept current-locale floats
>       printf,seq: improve long double accuracy
>       printf,seq: remove c-strtod dependency
>       build: update gnulib submodule to latest
>       date: ‘+’ conversion specification flag
>       doc: fix typo in previous patch
>       doc: give date +%+F example
>       doc: more date +%F clarifications
> 
> Pádraig Brady (28):
>       maint: post-release administrivia
>       tests: fix skipping in some tests
>       tests: avoid false failure on sparc 32 bit
>       doc: csplit: clarify input may not be reproducible from output
>       echo: always process escapes when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set
>       doc: mention that more than 8 colors are supported by ls
>       doc: adjust URLs in help to avoid wrapping
>       tail: don't exit immediately with filters on AIX
>       ls: with --group-directories-first, also group symlinked dirs
>       gnulib: update to the latest
>       build: ensure VLAs are not used
>       tail: fix handling of broken pipes with SIGPIPE ignored
>       maint: fix new syntax-check failure from recent change
>       build: fix recent build failure on systems without strtold
>       tests: add test for locale decimal processing
>       stat,tail: fix android build and support inotify
>       build: ensure sys/select.h is included
>       seq: output decimal points consistently with invalid locales
>       gnulib: update to use new strtold module
>       comm,join: ensure warnings are apparent upon exit
>       sort: clarify in --debug; only text comparisons affected
>       gnulib: update to the latest
>       wc: treat non breaking space as a word separator
>       maint: tidy up recent additions to NEWS
>       df: support different file system encodings when not using tty
>       env: add --list-signal-handling to output non default handling
>       build: revert recent change with distributed man page handling
>       doc: remove older ChangeLog items
> 
> Stéphane Campinas (1):
>       doc: csplit: clarify handling of regexps with negative offsets
> 
> Wodry (1):
>       doc: improve documentation of binary prefixes
> 
> 
> thank you!
> Pádraig