Re: debian coreutils patches

[Pádraig Brady]

Michael Stone wrote:
> I'm attaching the current patches from the debian coreutils package to
> make sure they don't get missed.

> 61_whoips: this one will be problematic to include directly as I don't
> have the autoconf-fu to make the network functions portable to non-linux
> platforms, and the core function was pulled from another program. It
> basically makes who output IP addresses rather than hostnames, which is
> quite useful as IPs are more reliable than PTRs. If not this patch, it
> would be good to add something similar.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363126

> 63_dd-appenderrors: makes dd spit out a helpful message when someone
> uses oflag=append without conv=notrunc and clobbers their output file.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373736

> 72_id_checkngroups: print a message if user is in more groups than the
> system can support
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=175994

The following newer ones seem to be handled already:

> 78_kfbsd_tab: add some #ifdefs for termios items which aren't in kFreeBSD
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520368

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=305bbd99

> 79_fix_ls_test_for_sticky: a different fix than currently slated for 7.6
> (set the mode explicitly rather than assuming a particular umask, to
> make it obvious what the difference between sticky and owt are)
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544965

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=467cc9bb

> 80_tail-2_wait_max-unchanged-stats: another one that makes the kfreebsd
> guys happy. In all honesty I'm not sure what this one is all about.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545009

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=a23afe7b

> 81_tail-f-: proposed change for handling "tail -f -" post 7.6
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545422

May be superseded by ?
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=af643655

> 82_symlink_utimensat_enosys: another ENOSYS caused by buildtime/runtime
> library issues. When calling utimensat to change the time on a symlink,
> simply ignore ENOSYS.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545306

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=2bc0f3ca

cheers,
Pádraig.