Re: 664 vs. touch -d now

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden wrote:
> Gentlemen, what's the deal, or have we been through this before and
> I'm just not using the current version or something here on Debian sid
> GNU/Linux 2.6.22.
...
> touch (GNU coreutils) 5.97

Hi Dan

Thanks for the report, but since it's against
such an old version of coreutils, it's not very useful.
I'm hoping to release 6.10 pretty soon, so if you could install
your own copy of the latest test release, coreutils-6.9.91, and
give feedback on that, I'd sure appreciate it.  FYI, there have
no significant bug reports since that test release.

Just download one of these (I mention lzma, since it's so much
smaller (3.6M vs 8.7M) than the .gz file):

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.91.tar.gz
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.91.tar.lzma

Here's the announcement (which mentions the LZMA url):
(to get lzma, just run "aptitude install lzma" or "yum install lzma")

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce/42

[you probably already know how to do this, but...]
Once you have a tarball,

  gzip -dc coreutils-6.9.91.tar.gz | tar xf -
  [ or lzma -dc coreutils-6.9.91.tar.lzma | tar xf - ]
  cd coreutils-6.9.91
  ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils
  make
  make -k check >& log

Then, if you want to use these tools rather than the ones
installed on your system, do this:

  make install

and then put $HOME/coreutils/bin at the front of your shell's
search patch.  E.g., with bash or zsh, do this:

  export PATH=$HOME/coreutils/bin:$PATH