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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Warren Young" <warren AT etr-usa DOT com>, "Cygwin-L" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <000201c30915$dcf96180$5c16989e AT oemcomputer> <3EA688E7 DOT 2030607 AT etr-usa DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin patch numbers
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:08:19 +0100
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Warren Young wrote:
> Peter S Tillier wrote:
>>
>> However when gawk --version is executed the version number only displays
>> as 3.1.2 (the GNU awk version/patch number).  Would it be possible for
>> the Cygwin patch number (the -2 above) to be included in the version
>> number for each tool/package please?
>
> Even assuming the simplest case where there's just a single file
> containing the displayed version number, it would still be a pain to
> keep the displayed package update level part in synch with in the
> package's file name.  Changing that version number usually requires
> rebuilding all of the binaries in the package, but repackaging a program
> is often done for reasons that don't in and of themselves require
> rebuilding everything.  For example, maintainers sometimes forget to
> include a file in the package.  Should they have to rebuild their whole
> package just to bump the package update level?

RPM forces this, doesn't it?

> What I'd rather see is a move to a packaging scheme like RPM that keeps
> a database of files that belong to packages:
>
> $ rpm -qf `which gawk`
> gawk-3.1.2-2
> $

It's slow, and only gets the package name, but this may help:

zgrep -F `which gawk | sed -e s,^/,,` /etc/setup/*.lst.gz \
| sed -e 's,^/etc/setup/\(.*\)\.lst\.gz:.*$,\1,'

You could conceivably put that in a script and feed the result to cygcheck
to get the full version info.


Max.


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