For those people testing cygwin snapshots, a new release of coreutils, 8.4-1, has been uploaded. 7.0-2 remains current, because the 8.4-1 release depends on features available only in recent snapshots (that is, don't upgraded if you are still using the current cygwin 1.7.1).
NEWS: ===== This is a new upstream release, which I had been neglecting to track for a while. Among other upstream highlights, it adds a new nproc(1) utility, overhauled rm(1) to be more reliable, improved touch(1) to alter symlink timestamps, improved mktemp(1) to allow user-specified suffixes, and in general fixed a number of bugs. A full NEWS summary will be attached when this version is promoted to current after cygwin 1.7.2 is released. This particular build also adds cygwin-specific code to try and fix the bugs reported about cp and install not sticking an .exe suffix on the target, when the source was specified without a suffix. If you encounter a regression, please report it here rather than upstream. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/coreutils/. Help in porting the stdbuf utility to cygwin would be appreciated. DESCRIPTION: ============ GNU coreutils provides a collection of commonly used utilities essential to a standard POSIX environment. It comprises the former textutils, sh-utils, and fileutils packages. The following executables are included: [ arch base64 basename cat chcon chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold gkill groups head hostid hostname id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp mv nice nl nohup nproc od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir runcon seq sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf sleep sort split stat stty su sum sync tac tail tee test timeout touch tr true truncate tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, first install the 20100309 snapshot or newer. Then click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions, select the 'Exp' radio button, and look for 'coreutils' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to 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....@cygwin.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 this URL.
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