John Ellson wrote:

> Unfortunately 4.1.1 comes after 4.1, so what you suggest is a
> downgrade.

Don't you know 4.1.1 is a test release from
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/ ?

>From README-alpha:

This is a test release of this package.

It's been too long (too many changes) since the last release.
Be careful with this one (4.1.1).  I may well have broken

something.

Please send comments and problem reports to jim @ meyering.net.

> If you want to argue with the fileutils maintainers, please
> go ahead. I'm just giving a heads-up to linux-kernel folks
> that this problem is coming and offering a work-around.

Why don't you report the "problem" to Jim or ask Red Hat to
patch their RawHide package.

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