| util-linux-2.7.tar.gz (source only distribution) |
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| READ the README file and the stuff below. |
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| util-linux-2.7.tar.gz (source only distribution) |
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| NOTE: Before installing util-linux. READ the README or risk nuking |
| your system. Thank you. |
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| 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 |
| version of util-linux installed with no risk to your sanity. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
| The present version is known to compile on at least Linux 1.2/libc 4 |
| 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. |
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| [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.] |
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| Util-Linux 2.7 is imediately available from |
| ftp.math.uio.no:/pub/linux, and |
| sunsite.uio.no:/pub/unix/linux/packages/util-linux, |
| and will appear at |
| sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc, as well as |
| tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/utils |
| when the people in charge there get time. |
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| Nicolai Langfeldt |
