Coreutils version 6.7 has been released. If you haven't heard about the GNU coreutils, the FAQ is a good place to start: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/>.
There were still some significant bugs in coreutils-6.6, so this is yet another bug-fix-only release. For details, see the NEWS section below. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.7.tar.gz (7.7MB) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.7.tar.bz2 (5.1MB) Here are the xdelta-style diffs: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.6-6.7.xdelta (444KB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.7.tar.gz.sig ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.7.tar.bz2.sig Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: bdad8bbcf15c1c1216eabcbefe0295ad coreutils-6.7.tar.gz a16465d0856cd011a1acc1c21040b7f4 coreutils-6.7.tar.bz2 356c3a4fca9d2fe109d4ef12cb6d854c coreutils-6.6-6.7.xdelta a7713aaad599f3689e9f083d6174f367ff60e2f5 coreutils-6.7.tar.gz 55a6037365f749a4ebb9e88a92132a4f938ac90e coreutils-6.7.tar.bz2 811baf7825e165f83a34ca6db7584ac17cc4df10 coreutils-6.6-6.7.xdelta [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify coreutils-6.7.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys D333CBA1 and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. ***************** How can you help? ***************** If you're interested in lending a hand, or just want to use the latest versions right now, you can build these programs and run the test suite like this: gzip -dc coreutils-6.7.tar.gz | tar xf - cd coreutils-6.7 ./configure make make -k check >& log grep FAIL log Be sure to use make's -k option so that make doesn't stop just because one of the earlier tests fails. Please report any build problems or test failures to the bug-coreutils@gnu.org mailing list. There are detailed instructions in the `Reporting bugs:' section of the README file. For further reading, see the coreutils home page http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ and the FAQ list: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/ ***************** NEWS ***************** * Noteworthy changes in release 6.7 (2006-12-08) [stable] ** Bug fixes When cp -p copied a file with special mode bits set, the same bits were set on the copy even when ownership could not be preserved. This could result in files that were setuid to the wrong user. To fix this, special mode bits are now set in the copy only if its ownership is successfully preserved. Similar problems were fixed with mv when copying across file system boundaries. This problem affects all versions of coreutils through 6.6. cp --preserve=ownership would create output files that temporarily had too-generous permissions in some cases. For example, when copying a file with group A and mode 644 into a group-B sticky directory, the output file was briefly readable by group B. Fix similar problems with cp options like -p that imply --preserve=ownership, with install -d when combined with either -o or -g, and with mv when copying across file system boundaries. This bug affects coreutils 6.0 through 6.6. du --one-file-system (-x) would skip subdirectories of any directory listed as second or subsequent command line argument. This bug affects coreutils-6.4, 6.5 and 6.6.
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