[arch-dev-public] [signoff] coreutils 8.4-3

[Allan McRae]

On 15/04/10 20:04, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 15/04/10 17:10, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:28:04 +1000
>> Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 15/04/10 03:40, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>>>> Am 14.04.2010 18:42, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
>>>>>> On Tuesday 13 April 2010 14:04:44 Allan McRae wrote:
>>>>>>> This changes /usr/bin/[ from a symlink to /usr/bin/test to the
>>>>>>> actual binary provided upstream. The use of the symlink has
>>>>>>> been in Arch for ages (probably for ever), but I can not see
>>>>>>> what this change will break. Having the symlink does break
>>>>>>> some stuff (FS#19063). Note that Fedora moved from the symlink
>>>>>>> to the binary for "[" in 2004.
>>>>>
>>>>> so what exactly does the binary do? is it an exact copy
>>>>> of /usr/bin/test, is it a small program that does exec(), or .. ?
>>>>> I downloaded the 8.4 tarball but couldn't quickly find the answer.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think it matters. Neither [ nor test from coreutils are
>>>> actually ever used - the bash (or whatever shell you use) builtins
>>>> [ and test are used instead.
>>>>
>>>
>>> In general, this is the only real difference:
>>> NOTE: [ honors the --help and --version options, but test does not.
>>> test treats each of those as it treats any other nonempty STRING.
>>>
>>> The rest I think is better compatibility with test synatx when your
>>> shell does not provide "[".
>>>
>>> Anyway, we should be supplying what upstream installs.
>>
>> I asked it just out of curiosity. I agree we should stick to
>> upstream.
>>
>
> Anyway.... can I now have an i686 signoff? :P

This has taken so long the package is now out of date...  I am moving it.

Allan