bug#12421: Issue of the cp on Ubuntu 10.10

2012-09-12 Thread owen . zhao
Dear Sir, A strange issue happens when I use the cp tool on two directory. 1 I have an empty directiry owen@linux-b2-ali:~/work/ALi_SDK/DailyBuild/linux_20120911$ ls images/fs.install/ -a . .. 2 Then I cp an directory in this directory with -rf owen@linux-b2-ali:~/work/ALi_SDK/DailyBuild/li

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Philipp Thomas wrote:from the changelog (where you could have looked yourself ...). I need to be convinced that sort threading works on all platforms openSUSE/SLES support in order to disable that patch. --- I wasn't aware that openSUSE supported all platforms. However the people who wrote so

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Jim Meyering
tags 12427 notabug thanks Linda Walsh wrote: ... > Do you have reason to believe they have buggy code by default? > I'll Cc' the coreutils bug-list on this and open a bug-report on this as > should have been done originally, and maybe your questions can be addressed. Hi Linda, Do you reali

bug#12336: test bug

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 12336 - moreinfo close 12336 thanks I haven't seen anything new on this for a week. I believe this to be a usage problem. Therefore I am closing this bug ticket. If you have different or new information please feel free to respond with it. Bob

bug#12162: [date] wrong time returned from provided relative date description

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 12162 - moreinfo close 12162 thanks I haven't seen a response to this in a month. Therefore I am closing the ticket as resolved. If you have new information or clarification please feel free to continue the discussion. Bob

bug#11949: Symbolic links

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 11949 - moreinfo close 11949 thanks Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 07/15/2012 05:56 PM, Nick Thomas wrote: > > Hello! > > I tried to create a symbolic link using ln -s ... but instead of getting > > a link of size about 20 bytes I obtained an executable file of length > > 1.9Mb i.e. a copy of the d

bug#11164: reporting of bugs in lfs

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 11164 - moreinfo close 11164 thanks http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11164 It has been five months since more information was requested on this bug. Without further information nothing can be resolved. Therefore I am closing this ticket. If you do have more information pleas

bug#10799: mv on virtual Ubuntu

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tag -1 - moreinfo close -1 thanks Bob Proulx wrote: > I think you have it diagnosed. PATH must be set to directories that > are finding "other" versions of 'mv' down in path and in the above > located over a gvfs filesystem. It has been many months since 18 Feb 2012 the last exchange on this bug

bug#10774: runcon'|

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
close 10774 thanks robert ethridge wrote: > what does this do (...'|) in relation to runcon? It has been many months since Feb 2012 when more information was requested. Therefore I am closing this ticket. If you have more information please feel free to continue the discussion. Bob

bug#9921: ./configure coreutils 8.14 on oneiric ubuntu 64 bit errors - see config.log

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 9921 - moreinfo close 9921 thanks Paul Eggert wrote: > On 10/31/11 06:19, Martin Suchanek wrote: > > I have got some errors and warnings which you can see in attached log file. > > It's normal for 'configure' to generate warnings > for conflicting types and whatnot. Is there any > error and/

bug#6970: gnu cp problem

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
It has been quite a while since 01 Sep 2010 when this bug ticket last had any activity. http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6970 Has the relevance of this issue expired? Thanks, Bob

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Linda Walsh
OpenSuSE's maintainer/integrator of the gnu sort package believes it to be faulty -- that's why I forwarded it here, in hopes that his concerns would be heard/dealt with. If the downstream maintain thinks there is a bug in sort, then isn't submitting that bug back up stream the correct thing to d

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Linda Walsh wrote: ... Do you have reason to believe they have buggy code by default? I'll Cc' the coreutils bug-list on thisand >> open a bug-report << on this as should have been done originally, and maybe your questions can be addressed. Hi Linda, Do yo

bug#12339: Gnu rm, changed only recently (4-5 years), and didn't follow letter of posix...(statement follows)

2012-09-12 Thread Linda Walsh
I hope to prove the subject convincingly in the following sections, If you can, reading this in the original HTML might be useful, as I don't know it will end up when converted to text. I tried to format it for readability .. so if the text format isn't...(still tried to limit margins and use m

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/12/2012 04:08 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > >> >> Linda Walsh wrote: >> ... >>> Do you have reason to believe they have buggy code by default? >>> I'll Cc' the coreutils bug-list on thisand >> open a >>> bug-report << on this as should have been done originally, >>> an

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/12/2012 03:59 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > OpenSuSE's maintainer/integrator of the gnu sort package > believes it to be faulty -- that's why I forwarded it here, > in hopes that his concerns would be heard/dealt with. Nothing can be dealt with if it is not first identified what needs to be dealt

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Eggert
On 09/12/2012 02:59 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > OpenSuSE's maintainer/integrator of the gnu sort package > believes it to be faulty That is not a correct summary of the email that you forwarded. That email merely said that he was not convinced that it works. If no bugs are known, there's no point to

bug#12339: Gnu rm, changed only recently (4-5 years), and didn't follow letter of posix...(statement follows)

2012-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/12/2012 04:51 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > I hope to prove the subject convincingly in the following sections, If > you can, reading this in the original HTML might be useful, as I don't > know it will end up when converted to text. HTML mail is forbidden on this list; the mail engine stripped i

bug#12339: Gnu rm, changed only recently (4-5 years), and didn't follow letter of posix...(statement follows)

2012-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/12/2012 06:28 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> Before, "rm -r bbb/" was not valid syntax -- > > Sorry, but 'rm -r bbb/' has ALWAYS been valid syntax in POSIX, and has > always meant 'remove the directory found by resolving 'bbb', even if > 'bbb' is a symlink to a directory. The fact that the Linux

bug#12339: Gnu rm, changed only recently (4-5 years), and didn't follow letter of posix...(statement follows)

2012-09-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Eric Blake wrote: On 09/12/2012 04:51 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: I hope to prove the subject convincingly in the following sections, If you can, reading this in the original HTML might be useful, as I don't know it will end up when converted to text. the mail engines sripped it to plain text bef