Recent update to coreutils

[Moritz Heiber]

GAH .. this should've gone to lunar@ instead .. yay me .. bleh ..

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:29:53 +0100
Moritz Heiber <moe at lunar-linux.org> wrote:

> Hello community,
> 
> to let you know: For the recent updates to 'coreutils' you HAVE TO
> update your coretools (lunar/theedge) first in order for the update not
> fail because of chmod and chown being lost in the process.
> 
> chown and chmod have recently been added to the so called 'protected'
> list thus they are now preserved throughout upgrades and your machines
> should not be rendered useless incase your coreutils are being updated.
> 
> If that is the case please extract chown and chmod from a working cache
> copy (located in /var/cache/lunar/) or grab them directly
> from /usr/src/coreutils-$VERSION and put them into /bin. Once that is
> accomplished please update your coretools first and relin coreutils
> afterwards.
> 
> We are sorry for inconvenience and hope that this hasn't caused too
> much agony for all of you.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Moritz aka Moe
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