Bug 474776

Summary:	sys-apps/coreutils-8.21 version bump
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	marius.spix
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description marius.spix 2013-06-25 20:18:54 UTC

sys-apps/coreutils-8.20 has a major bug in the -r option of the seq command.

This is fixed in 8.21

Steps to reproduce:
seq -s ';' 10

Received result:
1
2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;

Excepted result:
1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10

Workaround:
su
rm /usr/bin/seq
ln -s /bin/busybox /usr/bin/seq
chmod 755 /usr/bin/seq

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-06-25 20:35:53 UTC

The error you refer to was already backported to 8.20 in January (bug #448716).


*coreutils-8.20-r2 (11 Jan 2013)

  11 Jan 2013; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> +coreutils-8.20-r2.ebuild:
  Add fix from upstream for `seq -s` misbehavior #448716 by Homer.  Fix parallel
  recursive cp errors w/mkdir #449838 by Michał Górny.

8.21 entered the tree some time later:

*coreutils-8.21 (18 Feb 2013)

  18 Feb 2013; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> +coreutils-8.21.ebuild:
  Version bump.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 448716 ***