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• the coreutils package's locale directories were not owned by the coreutils package. This has been
corrected by ensuring that all locale directories are owned by the package. (
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In addition, this updated package provides the following enhancements:
• the '-v' option of the "ls" command sorts directory listings based upon version numbers. However,
"ls -v" did not sort vmlinuz-[version] files from the /boot/ directory in the correct order. This updated
coreutils package enhances both "ls -v" and "sort -V" so that they are now able to sort /boot/vmlinuz-
[version] files correctly. (
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• the "install" command now supports the "--compare" ('-c') flag, which causes "install" to compare
each pair of source and destination files and, if the destination file's content is identical to the
source (and disregarding any discrepancy between the owner, group, permissions and possibly
SELinux context) then the destination file is not modified and the modification time is left unchanged.
(
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• the "cp" and "mv" utilities now support the preservation of extended attributes on files and
directories. In addition, Access Control Lists (ACLs) are now preserved when copying or moving
files (with "cp" or "mv") to or from NFSv4-mounted file systems. (
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All coreutils users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues.
1.24. cpio
1.24.1. RHBA-2009:0379: bug fix update
Note
This update has already been released (prior to the GA of this release) as FASTRACK
errata
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An updated cpio package that fixes various bugs is now available.
GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or Tar archive.
This updated cpio package includes fixes for the following bugs:
• when called with the "--pass-through" ('-p') option, which enables copy-pass mode, cpio did not
always set the permissions of copied directories correctly. In certain circumstances, cpio always
created directories with a permissions mode of 700 and did not respect the system umask. With this
updated package, cpio copies directories while honoring the umask setting when using copy-pass
mode, which resolves the issue.
• cpio was unable to write to a file on a remote system when using the "-O [archive]" option along with
"--rsh-command". With this update, cpio is once again able to write files to remote systems. Note
that the default remote shell is defined as /usr/bin/rsh.
All users of cpio are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues.