On 11/07/2017 06:32 PM, Igor Gnatenko wrote: > Yesterday we removed following Provides/Obsoletes from coreutils. > - fileutils > - sh-utils > - stat > - textutils > - mktemp > > First four never been separate packages (at least from what I can see > in dist-git), last one disappeared in fc10... Tidbit of history... fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils were all separate GNU projects and merged together to form the single coreutils project. https://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/ https://www.gnu.org/software/shellutils/ https://www.gnu.org/software/textutils/ (The name shellutils and sh-utils were used inconsistently across different Linux distributions.) The stat package is really old. You can find it in old Red Hat Linux releases. At least in RHL 5.1, it appears to be code from Rich Kulawiec (and others) originating at Purdue University. The comments in the code have timestamps starting in 1986. GNU didn't gain a stat(1) command until coreutils anyway, so it makes sense the Red Hat would have sought out an alternative for scripting since the command is nice for sysadmins. -- David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> Red Hat, Inc. | Boston, MA | EST5EDT _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
