Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:44:01 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200412231244.iBNCi1k16721@esds.vss.fsi.com> From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.2.1-3 Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I have uploaded coreutils-5.2.1-3. This package superseeds the packages fileutils, sh-utils and textutils. Changes since 5.2.1-2: - cp(1) always copies in binary mode. - ln(1) can hardlink executables even if the .exe suffix is missing on the command line like this: $ ls -l foo* -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 622235 Jul 26 21:01 foo.exe $ ln foo foo2 $ ls -l foo* -rwxr-xr-x 2 corinna root 622235 Jul 26 21:01 foo.exe -rwxr-xr-x 2 corinna root 622235 Jul 26 21:01 foo2.exe - mv(1) can rename executables even if the .exe suffix is missing on the command line like this: $ ls -l foo* -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 622235 Jul 26 21:01 foo.exe $ mv foo foo2 $ ls -l foo* -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 622235 Jul 26 21:01 foo2.exe Note that in all cases the .exe suffix is only appended to the destination name, if it was necessary to append the .exe suffix to the source name, too. This allows to copy/link/rename an executable so that the destination name doesn't have a .exe suffix: $ ls -l foo* -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 622235 Jul 26 21:01 foo.exe $ cp foo.exe foo2 $ ls -l foo* -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 622235 Jul 26 21:01 foo.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna root 622235 Jul 26 21:01 foo2 ========================================================================= Important note: I'm releasing this package only because nobody else did so far and this already took too long. I'm not at all interested to stay coreutils maintainer for a long time. Along the same line, I'm not going to discuss the way I packed this package. If anybody dislikes the way this package is packed, consider to take over maintainership. If anybody wants to take over maintainership, (s)he's more than welcome. ========================================================================= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at the above URL. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/