LaMont Jones wrote: > There are several binaries in text-utils that are leveraged from BSD, > which seem to be out of date. ( See > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bsdmainutils/bsdmainutils_6.1.6.tar.gz) > > Specifically, if I compare the versions in Debian's bsdmainutils to the > versions in util-linux-ng, I see that our col and friends have what > appears to be better wide-character support, while hexdump and such are > behind... > > Should we merge them, or drop them? or just accept that the two forks > are different :-( (I don't like that last option at all..) > > thoughts? > lamont +1 for merging bsdmainutils into util-linux (and I volunteer to help if that's OK). For reference here is a list¹ of duplicated enabled² programs on fedora 7 and ubuntu breezy at least: bash [ coreutils [ bsdmainutils cal util-linux cal bsdmainutils col util-linux col bsdmainutils colcrt util-linux colcrt bsdmainutils colrm util-linux colrm bsdmainutils column util-linux column bash echo coreutils echo bash false coreutils false bsdmainutils hexdump util-linux hexdump bash kill util-linux kill bsdmainutils look util-linux look bash printf coreutils printf bash pwd coreutils pwd bash test coreutils test bash true coreutils true bsdmainutils ul util-linux ul Note there may be overlapping functionality in differently named progs (for example hexdump and the coreutils `od` program). thanks, Pádraig. ¹ The above list was generated using the following command line: ( rpm -ql coreutils | sed -n 's#.*bin/\(.*\)$#coreutils\t\1#p;' rpm -ql util-linux | sed -n 's#.*bin/\(.*\)$#util-linux\t\1#p;' ssh user@debian 'dpkg -L bsdmainutils' | sed -n 's#.*bin/\(.*\)$#bsdmainutils\t\1#p;' enable -pa | sed 's/enable /bash\t/' ) | sort -k2,2 | uniq | uniq -f1 -D | column -t ² `kill` and `arch` are also part of the coreutils source for example, but not enabled on Fedora 7 at least > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
