Re: touch & README

[Paul G Rogers]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:27:00 -0700 Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

>>>problem in the test suite was detected and corrected between 5.3.0 
>>>and 5.90; the latest stable release of coreutils is 5.93.  The 

>> I am building 5.2.1 as part of a LFS-6.1.1 compile from scratch.  
>>Guess it's pretty far behind, eh?  But we are admonished to stick with 
>>the versions they supply and document, to control incompatibilities.

>Then it is just a test suite bug, and you can ignore the failure.  You
may
>also want to recommend to LFS that they upgrade their
compile-from-scratch
>directions to use the latest stable coreutils, as it has fixed a number
of
>bugs present in 5.2.1.

I'm adding them to the recipients.

>Run "id dummy" to find out what groups it is a member of; perhaps you
>created dummy as a member of the group that owns /.

There are actually two dummy groups created, but I'll have to check more
carefully.  At this stage we're recompiling the packages in a chroot
environment, using versions originally compiled in the host environment,
and this is early in the process.  It one of those "one foot on the boat
and one foot on the dock" things right now. It's easy to get confused.

Paul Rogers  (address@hidden)
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