The following packages contain deprecated usage of the head (head -x) command and might not function as expected when used with coreutils-5.93. As requested on gentoo-dev, I will post my list here. This list is generated from my currently running system... media-video/mjpegtools-1.8.0-r1 (/usr/bin/anytovcd.sh) 77: awk '$4 == "build" {print $5}' | sed s/,// | head -1`" 85: awk '/Audio:/ {print $8}' | head -${2} | tail -1`" 93: awk '/Audio:/ {print $4}' | sed s/,// | head -${2} | tail -1`" 101: awk '/Audio:/ {print $5}' | sed s/,// | head -${2} | tail -1`" 107: echo "`head -1 /tmp/tmp.y4m | awk '{print $4}' | cut -c 2-`" 114: echo "`head -1 /tmp/tmp.y4m | awk '{print $5}' | cut -c 2-`" 121: echo "`head -1 /tmp/tmp.y4m | awk '{print $6}' | cut -c 2-`" 128: echo "`head -1 /tmp/tmp.y4m | awk '{sub("W","",$2); sub("H","",$3); print $2"x"$3}'`" 135: awk '/Video:/ {print $4}' | sed s/,// | head -1`" 327:FFMPEG_AUD_TRACK="`${FFMPEG} -i \"${AUDIO_SRC}\" 2>&1 | awk '/Audio:/ {sub("^#","",$2); print $2}' | awk -F[ '{print $1}' | head -${AUD_TRACK} | tail -1`" gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 (/usr/bin/gnome-bug) 181: ( [ -f /etc/SuSE-release ] && head -1 /etc/SuSE-release) || \ media-video/xine-ui-0.99.3-r1 (/usr/bin/xine-bugreport) 613: short=`head -1 <$tmpfile` 906: xine_executable=`echo "$xine_executable1" | head -1` 925: xine_config=`echo "$xine_configs" | head -1` 935: xine_config=`echo "$xine_configs" | head -1` 1105: hdparm=`echo "$found"|head -1` 1148: xvinfo=`echo "$found"|head -1` 1149: XVIDEO=`$xvinfo|head -1` 1390: mailer=`echo "$found"|head -1` media-video/xine-ui-0.99.3-r1 (/usr/bin/xine-check) 613: short=`head -1 <$tmpfile` 906: xine_executable=`echo "$xine_executable1" | head -1` 925: xine_config=`echo "$xine_configs" | head -1` 935: xine_config=`echo "$xine_configs" | head -1` 1105: hdparm=`echo "$found"|head -1` 1148: xvinfo=`echo "$found"|head -1` 1149: XVIDEO=`$xvinfo|head -1` 1390: mailer=`echo "$found"|head -1` kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.0 (/usr/kde/3.5/bin/krfb_httpd) 23: size=`xdpyinfo -display :0| grep dimensions:|head -1|sed -e "s/.*dimensions: *//" -e "s/ pixels.*//"` dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4 (/usr/lib/php/build/libtool.m4) 3358: lt_cv_file_magic_test_file=`echo /System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/*/System | head -1` sys-apps/portage-2.0.54 (/usr/lib/portage/bin/find-requires) 28: head -1 $f | sed -e 's/^\#\![ ]*//' | cut -d" " -f1 dev-lang/python-2.4.2 (/usr/lib/python2.4/test/test_itertools.py) 114: # sort s | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -3 app-emulation/cedega-5.0.1 (/usr/lib/transgaming_cedega/system_detection.py) 207: pipeFile = os.popen("head -1 " + filename) gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4 (/usr/lib/vfs/extfs/trpm) 151: name=`head -1 $name` net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-1.4.2 (/usr/nagios/libexec/check_oracle) 183: loginchk3=` echo "$loginchk" | grep "ORA-" | head -1` 204: error=` echo "$result" | grep "ORA-" | head -1` 219: error=` echo "$result" | grep "ORA-" | head -1` 257: error=` echo "$result" | grep "ORA-" | head -1` net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-1.4.2 (/usr/nagios/libexec/contrib/aix/check_io) 53: DATA=`head -1 /tmp/iotest.hndl` net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-1.4.2 (/usr/nagios/libexec/contrib/aix/check_queue) 53: DATA=`head -1 /tmp/qtmp.hndl` app-arch/tar-1.15.1 (/usr/sbin/backup-tar) 127: head -1| app-arch/tar-1.15.1 (/usr/sbin/backup.sh) 263: | head -1 \ sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r5 (/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r5/arch/frv/Makefile) 26:CCSPECS := $(shell $(CC) -v 2>&1 | grep "^Reading specs from " | head -1 | cut -c20-) sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r5 (/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r5/drivers/char/speakup/install) 3:VERSION=v`head -2 /usr/src/linux/Makefile | \
i'm pretty sure i was wrong about this ... in previous versions, using `head -#` generated a warning and/or refused to work but with coreutils-5.93, it's working fine w/out a warning ...
the code must have been refactored or something ... if anyone cares to look into that, it'd be good ...
I saw a note in the NEWS file about this: * Major changes in release 5.90 (2005-09-29) [unstable] ** Bring back support for `head -NUM', `tail -NUM', etc. even when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001. The following changes apply only when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001; there is no effect when conforming to older POSIX versions. I assumed I misread it when I saw your -dev mail and this bug. But perhaps I understood it right the first time: head -1 (etc) is OK :)
