Will Woods wrote:
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:22 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Why is it that the line program is in the upstream package, http://freshmeat.net/projects/util-linux/ but not in the RPM in fedora?
According to the .spec file, it's because it's deprecated. I'm not sure what it's deprecated by, though.
Its functionality is easily replaced by "head -n1".
The change appears to have been made in revision 1.23 of the util-linux specfile, though there's nothing specific in the (rather large) changelog entry about the line command. the closest I see (without digging through the various bug numbers listed) is:
* Sun Feb 02 2003 Florian La Roche Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de - rebuild to have again a s390 rpm - disable some more apps for mainframe
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/util-linux/devel/util-linux.spec?a...