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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-7196
2008-08-12 16:08:04
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Name : coreutils
Product : Fedora 8
Version : 6.9
Release : 18.fc8
URL :
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Summary : The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts
Description :
These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of
the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
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Update Information:
- fix typo in runuser manpages (#439410) - mention that cp -a includes -c
option + mention cp -c option in manpages (#440056) - fix possible build-
failure typo in i18n patch(#442205) - fix possible segfault in sha1sum/md5sum
command - fix wrong checksum line handling in sha1sum -c command(#439531)
- who -r should not show last runlevel for nonprintable chars (like \0) -
#453249,add few missing who options to texinfo documentation, add missing
authors for basename and echo - dd: iflag=fullblock now read full blocks if
possible (#431997, #449263) - ptx with odd number of backslashes no longer
leads to buffer overflow - paste -d'\' file" no longer ovveruns memory
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Aug 7 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik(a)redhat.com> 6.9-18
- fix typo in runuser manpages (#439410)
- mention that cp -a includes -c option + mention cp -c
option in manpages (#440056)
- fix possible build-failure typo in i18n patch(#442205)
- fix possible segfault in sha1sum/md5sum command
- fix wrong checksum line handling in sha1sum -c
command(#439531)
- who -r should not show last runlevel for nonprintable chars
(like \0) - #453249,add few missing who options to texinfo
documentation, add missing authors for basename and echo
- dd: iflag=fullblock now read full blocks if possible
(#431997, #449263)
- ptx with odd number of backslashes no longer leads to buffer
overflow
- paste -d'\' file" no longer ovveruns memory
* Tue Mar 25 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik(a)redhat.com> 6.9-17
- mv: never unlink a destination file before calling rename
(upstream, #438076)
- defer usage of longoptions patch until final upstream
version (#43105)
* Tue Mar 11 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik(a)redhat.com> 6.9-16
- other way to keep user defined LS_COLORS(#430827)
- fixed harmless double close stdout in dd(#436368)
* Thu Mar 6 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik(a)redhat.com> - 6.9-15
- rebuild / unspotted 6.9-14 build failure on ppc64
* Tue Mar 4 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik(a)redhat.com> - 6.9-14
- fixed missing doublequotes in colorls.csh (#435789)
- su-l/runuser-l pam file usage a bit documented(#368721)
* Tue Feb 19 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik(a)redhat.com> - 6.9-13
- added several missing colored TERMS(#239266)
- added several missing image/compressed file extensions
- some optimalizations of colorls.sh
(#430813, #430827, #430823, #430189, #433190)
- fix unability of echo to display certain strings(
added -- separator, #431005) , do not require only one
long_opt for certain commands like sleep, yes - but
use first usable (#431005)
- keep old csh/sh usermodified colorls shell scripts
(#432154)
* Wed Dec 5 2007 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik(a)redhat.com> - 6.9-12
- fix displaying of security context in stat(#411181)
* Thu Nov 29 2007 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik(a)redhat.com> - 6.9-11
- completed fix of wrong colored broken symlinks in ls(#404511)
* Fri Nov 23 2007 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik(a)redhat.com> - 6.9-10
- fixed bug in handling YYYYMMDD date format with relative
signed offset(#377821)
- fixed bug in selinux patch which caused bad preserving
of security context in install(#319231)
- added some upstream supported dircolors TERMs(#239266)
- fixed du output for unaccesible dirs(#250089)
- a bit of upstream tunning for symlinks
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #431997 - dd reads random sizes of data
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431997
[ 2 ] Bug #440056 - cp preserve security context documentation inconsistencies
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440056
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