Re: Bug: textutils-2.1 break, if you "touch" it

FYI, I was able to avoid the problem of modifying timestamps, while 
importing textutils or coreutils under cvs by using "-d" flag


Jim Meyering wrote:

>Nitin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
>  
>
>>I downloaded textutils-2.1.tar.gz from gnu website.
>>
>>I was trying to build textutils for our processor. I saved textutils
>>under CVS source control (which apparently changed the timestamps of
>>    
>>
>
>textutils-2.1 is getting old.
>You're not the first to make the mistake of getting/using it.[*]
>I suggest that you use the coreutils, not the textutils.
>
>  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.90.tar.bz2
>  (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)
>
>The latest sources are available via CVS here:
>
>  http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils/
>
>If you need to check things into your own repository, or otherwise
>change timestamps, then you should to get recent versions of tools
>like autoconf, automake, and bison.
>
>Jim
>
>[*] There is still at least one GNU web page
>
>   http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/textutils.html
>
>that describes the textutils without mentioning that
>that package has been superseded by the coreutils.
>Unfortunately, I haven't yet found out how to update that page.
>
>  
>

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