There's still no new release, but since there are ~120 commits since
August with several dependency bumps and improvements regarding the
compatibility with the GNU coreutils.
The full diff can be viewed here:
a161b7e803...036dd81295
Currently the installation on Darwin fails due to a bug in the
installation script: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/34840#issuecomment-369227222
As I lack knowledge and resources to properly test this package against
Darwin I'll disallow Darwin builds for now.
`uutils-coreutils` is an a cross-platform rewrite of GNU/coreutils based
on Rust. It aims to increase portability and improve Windows support
(see https://github.com/uutils/coreutils#why).
Since the derivation provides the same binaries as `coreutils` does a
`prefix` argument as been added to the function to avoid any conflicts
that can be used like this:
``` nix
self: super:
{
uutils-coreutils = self.uutils-coreutils.override { prefix = "uutils"; };
}
```
Resolves #28114 /cc @NeQuissimus
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Important notice: the patch depends on #34505 which needs to be merged
*FIRST* as it fixes a bug in the `rustc` setup of nixpkgs (see the PR's
discussion and 5c9665f41c (commitcomment-27271420) for further reference).
