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@@ -1,21 +1,17 @@ -util-linux-2.7.tar.gz (source only distribution) +util-linux-2.8.tar.gz (source only distribution) READ the README file and the stuff below. -util-linux-2.7.tar.gz (source only distribution) +util-linux-2.8.tar.gz (source only distribution) NOTE: Before installing util-linux. READ the README or risk nuking your system. Thank you. Util-linux is a suite of essential utilities for any Linux system. -It's primary audience is system integrators (like the people at -RedHat) and DIY Linux hackers. The rest of you will get a digested +It's primary audience is system integrators (like the people at Debian +and RedHat) and DIY Linux hackers. The rest of you will get a digested version of util-linux installed with no risk to your sanity. - Version 2.7 of util-linux is mostly a bugfix release. But several -utilities that appear in other packages have been removed and -hwclock(8) has replaced clock(8) entirely. - Util-linux is attempting to be portable, but the only platform it has been tested much on is linux/intel. There have however been integrated several patches for Arm, m68k, and Alpha linux versions. @@ -24,11 +20,7 @@ and Linux 2.0/Libc 5 and has also been tested with libc 6 on intel, alpha and sparc. People are encouraged to make _nice_ patches to util-linux and submitting them to util-linux@math.uio.no. Thank you. -[To be more precise, earlier versions of util-linux did compile on -Linux 1.2/libc 4. The present version contains at least one obstacle: -the routine snprintf() is not available in libc 4.5.26, but it is in 4.6.27.] - -Util-Linux 2.7 is imediately available from +Util-Linux 2.8 is imediately available from ftp.math.uio.no:/pub/linux, and sunsite.uio.no:/pub/unix/linux/packages/util-linux, and will appear at |