Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 6.10-3 > Severity: normal > > The --time-style=locale option to ls no longer behaves as documented. > > $ locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ... > > $ ls --version > ls (GNU coreutils) 6.10 > ... > > $ /bin/ls --time-style=locale -l pass

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Odd. I see that with LC_ALL=en, it *does* work: > > LC_ALL=en ./ls --time-style=locale -dl / > drwxr-xr-x 42 root root 1024 Mar 13 12:02 / Because the en locale does not exist. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Lin

Re: miscutils

2008-04-06 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 1:19 AM, Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It has been proposed to start the miscutils project, > to include utilities not seen as core to the system. > I.E. utilities that are of less general use, but > still worth maintaining and distributing. Did this ever ge

Re: Feature Request - prepend to file

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > >> machines. Finally, what syntax did you have in mind? It is probably >> possible to write a shell script that has that exact same syntax, but uses >> existing commands, to achieve the task without needing to add a new coreutil. > >

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
Hi, This can affect invocations of `ls' that don't include an explicit `--time-style=locale', as well, since that is now the default (in absence of a TIME_STYLE environment variable). The only case I can see in the head revision of `ls.c' where the default English time-style is used is when there

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
"Bo Borgerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This can affect invocations of `ls' that don't include an explicit > `--time-style=locale', as well, since that is now the default (in > absence of a TIME_STYLE environment variable). > > The only case I can see in the head revision of `ls.c' where the >

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. > That feels pretty kludgy. I hope we end up with something cleaner. Yeah, I suppose so. Short of including `translations' for English, though, what's a better option? > BTW, such a patch would almost certainl

Re: [PATCH] Standardize some error messages.

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
"Bo Borgerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Have you received/sent the paper yet? > > Yep, I sent it out this morning. > >> So how about adding an sc_*** rule for this in maint.mk? > > I added three so the failure message

new snapshot available: coreutils-6.10.176-383b1

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
I'd forgotten to pull onto master the remove.c fix for BeOS/Haiku, but more importantly, this snapshot is bootstrapped with the just-tagged autoconf-2.62 (soon to appear on ftp.gnu.org): coreutils snapshot: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz8.8 MB http://meyering.net/cu/coreut

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, I suppose so. Short of including `translations' for English, > > though, what's a better option? > > > > What's the downside to that? > Mike Stone > Good question. My thought was "because there aren't any now",

Re: [PATCH] Standardize some error messages.

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please use VC_LIST_EXCEPT, so that the checks look only > at version-controlled files. That also provides a method > for exceptions: see the existing .x-sc_* files. Ah, that's much nicer. Thanks. > s/Likwise/Likewise/

Re: Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2008-04-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:56:19PM -0400, Bo Borgerson wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks. That feels pretty kludgy. I hope we end up with something cleaner. Yeah, I suppose so. Short of including `translations' for English, though, what'

Re: [PATCH] add new sort option --xargs (-x)

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
I had a capitalized error message in this patch. I also didn't use a correct commit message format. Thanks Bo From 9a37b547bcc892d1d5e2542c43d77b13497318db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 18:42:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add new sort option --f

Re: [PATCH] add new sort option --xargs (-x)

2008-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
"Bo Borgerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a capitalized error message in this patch. > I also didn't use a correct commit message format. Thanks for noticing and correcting. > Subject: [PATCH] Add new sort option --files0-from=F > > * src/sort.c: support new option > * tests/misc/sort-fil

Re: [PATCH] add new sort option --xargs (-x)

2008-04-06 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > s/texti/texi/ > Please use capitals and periods in ChangeLogs. ;-) > s/null/NUL/ > Split the string. Otherwise, your addition pushes its length beyond > a portability limit whose exact number I forget but it's around 50

Re: miscutils

2008-04-06 Thread Pádraig Brady
James Youngman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 1:19 AM, Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It has been proposed to start the miscutils project, >> to include utilities not seen as core to the system. >> I.E. utilities that are of less general use, but >> still worth maintaining and dis