[arch-general] coreutils 8.1 major problem

[Allan McRae]

Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
> 2009/12/4 Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
>> Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
>>> 2009/12/4 Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com>:
>>>> 2009/12/4 Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com>:
>>>>> 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.
>>>> You should file on our bug tracker too.
>>>>
>>> So here we go – Flyspray bug number 17382.
>> Has anyone actually run into this regression when building a package?  I did
>> most of the heimdal rebuild with this and never ran into it.  A good make
>> file uses rm -f anyway, which negates this bug...
>>
>> Allan
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> I have just tried rm -f and it doesn't help. In fact I expected it
> because it stops when parsing options, not when the files are deleted.

I was sure I read on the coreutils list that -f was a workaround.  It 
seems I recall wrong.