Bug 515

Summary:	upgrade coreutils from 8.8 to 8.10 (latest stable) to fix bugs and have a more speed cp command
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Y.LE_NY <yleny>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	Mageia 2
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description Y.LE_NY 2011-03-23 21:50:42 CET

Description of problem:
Mageia 1 Alpha1 use coreutils from 8.8 release 
but the latest stable version is 8.10.
Please upgrade it from 8.8 (2010-12-22) to 8.10 (2011-02-04) to fix bugs and have a more speed cp command.

8.10 changelog extract :
"The cp feature makes copying sparse files much more efficient on several common file systems. 
It takes advantage of a feature that was introduced in linux-2.6.27.
The improvement affects the default code path, so if you're looking
for risk potential, this is it.  It uses the feature if available,
and otherwise resorts to using the old, less-efficient copying code."

coreutils 8.10 changelog available at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html

coreutils 8.9 changelog available at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html

Sources:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.10.tar.gz

For better information, latest alsa release in several Linux
Distribution :
Fedora 15 rawhide use 8.10
OpenSuse 11.4 us 8.9 and Opensuse factory use 8.10
Debian unstable sid use 8.5 	
Ubuntu snapshot natty use 8.5
Mandriva cooker use 8.9

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-8.8-2.mga1


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Y.LE_NY 2011-03-23 21:51:41 CET

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 1 Y.LE_NY 2011-04-09 20:02:06 CEST

coreutils is not upgraded from 8.8 to 8.10 in Mageia 1 Beta 1.
Then now, is it for Mageia 2 release ?

Comment 2 Ahmad Samir 2011-04-09 21:55:28 CEST

@Thierry: Too late in the release cycle?

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 3 Thomas Backlund 2011-04-11 10:10:51 CEST

It will be done in Cauldron after Mageia 1 is released...

There are still recent bugs showing up in coreutils, for example the  new cp using FIEMAP can cause corrupted data on recent kernels, so its not a "simple and safe" upgrade.

We want a very stable Mageia 1

Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 2

Comment 4 Y.LE_NY 2011-04-12 13:27:31 CEST

(In reply to comment #3)
> It will be done in Cauldron after Mageia 1 is released...
OK, no problems.

> There are still recent bugs showing up in coreutils, for example the  new cp
> using FIEMAP can cause corrupted data on recent kernels, so its not a "simple
> and safe" upgrade.
> 
> We want a very stable Mageia 1
Me too.

Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-01 23:55:42 CEST

Coreutils is in version 8.12 now.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED