Coreutils-6.12

[Julio Meca Hansen]

The latest version of coreutils is 6.11, dated as of April 19th of 2008:

​ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.11.tar.gz ​ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.11.tar.lzma

I have tried it using the same instructions for 6.10 and it works, at least I haven't received any kind of error message during system operation (except the fact I couldn't apply the patches)

Should we give it a try? Would be nice to have it included in the book, unless we're explicitly waiting for version 6.12

Julio

[Julio Meca Hansen]

Now version 6.12 is out for testing:

​ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.12.tar.gz ​ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.12.tar.lzma

Julio

[Julio Meca Hansen]

I tried to use the existing patches for coreutils-6.10 and they can't be used, but to be exact the i18n patch doesn't apply, it fails. The uname patch doesn't show any appreciable error.

I have never used meld or any kind of patching programs to actually produce the patches, so I'm not sure if I can fit the task, but I could try if someone could give me a hint or two, although ideally it would be nice if (for now) someone could take a look at it before me.

Any hint or direction here?

Julio

[Julio Meca Hansen]

I've successfully managed to install coreutils-6.12 to continue overall system testing, but some changes are needed:

Reading robert's patch for coreutils-6.10 (the i18n one), I traced the patch origin, so I downloaded the most recent patch for coreutils from Fedora CVS repo, and applied it successfully, but I don't know if this patch can be included as-is or it needs some modifications, it worked for me, but it would be nice if someone gives it a second review, so we can be sure it's the correct step

The sort-mb-tests file isn't located anymore in the tests/sort directory, instead, it has been placed into the tests/misc directory, so a change in the book is needed to reflect this change, so it would change from this:

chmod +x tests/sort/sort-mb-tests

To this:

chmod +x tests/misc/sort-mb-tests

Apart from these two things, I haven't noticed any other parts needing to be changed, although as I said before, I would like someone to review it prior to upgrade the book for both the package itself and the book instructions in chapter 6

Julio

[randy@…]

I could see anything that needs us to change/add the sort-mb-tests command. DJ's book removed it, I don't see that it is required, so it has been removed.

Updated Coreutils to 6.12 in r8581.