[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: coreutils-6.9-5

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Tue Aug 21 21:47:00 GMT 2007


Eric Blake schrieb:
> A new release of coreutils, 6.9-5, is available for experimental use,
> leaving 6.9-4 as current.
> 
> NEWS:
> =====
> This is a minor patch release.  It attempts to add some case-insensitivity
> smarts to mv, cp, and install.  In other words, 'mv a A' should now cause
> the file to be renamed, rather than reporting an error, if 'a' and 'A'
> happen to be case-insensitive synonyms for the same file.  I've tested
> this with disk files, virtual files (such as /proc), and managed mounts,
> but not with CYGWIN=check_case.  Also, because it is a big enough patch, I
> am leaving this as an experimental release for a while longer in case some
> regressions turn up.

Great, thanks!
Are you planning to submit the patch upstream?

> See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/coreutils-6.9/.
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