[arch-general] coreutils 8.1 major problem

[Thomas Bächler]

Lukáš Jirkovský schrieb:
> Hi everyone,
> I've just noticed coreutils 8.1 in [testing] repo and I think I should
> warn you. Unfortunatelly it has one quite bad regression which can
> break quite many scripts.
> 
> There is a change in rm command (it's fixed in git repository) that
> when you try to remove "" it immediately exits without removing any
> other specified files. Unfortunately this breaks many scripts and
> Makefiles(IIRC there's problem with eg. libxt).
> 
> I suggest NOT to upgrade to coreutils 8.1 before the old behavior is restored.
> 
> more info:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-11/msg00348.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-12/msg00004.html

You should get this to the bug tracker, an upstream fix is already 
available, so this should be corrected easily and quickly.

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