Re: distribution tarball format [was: Announcing the release of GNU findutils 4.7.0]

2019-09-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2019-09-03 Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 8/31/19 9:59 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: [...] > > Bernhard Voelker wrote: > >> "make dist" no longer builds .tar.gz files. > >> xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing > >> only .tar.xz files is enough. > > > > It may be enough b

distribution tarball format [was: Announcing the release of GNU findutils 4.7.0]

2019-09-02 Thread Bernhard Voelker
[adding the mailing list] Hello Antonio, On 8/31/19 9:59 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > Hello Bernhard, > > Thanks for this new version of GNU findutils. :-) no worries, that release was long overdue, but finally we made it. > Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> "make dist" no longer builds .tar.gz fil

Re: Announcing the release of GNU findutils 4.7.0

2019-08-30 Thread Jean Louis
Hello Bernhard, Thank you, just one question: * Bernhard Voelker [2019-08-30 00:44]: > The updatedb script now operates in the C locale only. This means > that character encoding issues are now not likely to cause sort to > fail. It also honours the TMPDIR environment variable if that was > se

Re: Announcing the release of GNU findutils 4.7.0

2019-08-30 Thread James Youngman
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 10:20 AM Jean Louis wrote: > > Hello Bernhard, > > Thank you, just one question: > > * Bernhard Voelker [2019-08-30 00:44]: > > The updatedb script now operates in the C locale only. This means > > that character encoding issues are now not likely to cause sort to > > fai

Announcing the release of GNU findutils 4.7.0

2019-08-29 Thread Bernhard Voelker
We are pleased to announce the release of version 4.7.0 of GNU findutils. GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match certain criteria and for performing various operations on them. Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate". More information about find