[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: coreutils-6.9-1

[Eric Blake]

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A new release of coreutils, 6.9-1, is available for testing.  6.7-1
remains current, and 6.9 will probably be promoted to current within a
couple of weeks if no serious regressions are reported.

NEWS:
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This is a new stable upstream release.  The new 'sort --compress-program'
option is not fully debugged; do not expect it to always work (it is
disabled by default).  Other upstream changes are attached below.  See
also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/coreutils-6.9/.

This release alters a cygwin-specific patch: previously, when foo.exe
existed but not foo, 'ln -s foo bar' created 'bar.exe' pointing to
'foo.exe'.  But this led to confusion on the mailing lists, and even
created problems with /usr/sbin/sendmail.  Now, 'ln -s foo bar' will
create 'bar' pointing to 'foo.exe'.  Furthermore, 'ln -sf foo bar' will
gracefully clean up any bar.exe symlink that might exist from earlier
coreutils releases.  As before, you can use the cygwin-specific option of
'ln --disable-exe-magic' to bypass this automatic .exe handling; you can
also use 'ls --append-exe' to make ls show you when .exe magic is happening.

Due to the new default behavior for symlinks to executables no longer
ending in .exe, installing coreutils 6.9 will fix any symlinks in your
/usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories.  This fix may mean that 'cygcheck -c'
shows an incomplete package; maintainers have been alerted and will
hopefully resolve the issue in the near future.  If you want to fix any
symlinks in other directories to follow the new default behavior, you can
use this bash snippet:

for f in `find /path/you/want/updated -type l -name '*.exe'` ; do
  /bin/ln -sf "$(/bin/readlink "$f")" "${f//.exe}" || :
done

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:

[ base64 basename cat 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 mv nice nl nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr
printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir seq sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum
sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf sleep sort split stat stty su sum sync tac
tail tee test touch tr true tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users
vdir wc who whoami yes

UPDATE:
=======
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.
Save it and run setup, answer the questions, then look for 'coreutils' in
the 'Base' category (it should already be selected).  Since this is an
experimental release, you will need to use the 'Exp' radio button.

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.

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Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer

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