X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Eric Blake Subject: Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:36:29 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <451AEBAE DOT 6000703 AT cs DOT ucsd DOT edu> <451B1F43 DOT 1030400 AT byu DOT net> <451D5451 DOT 9030608 AT ucsd DOT edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Larry Breyer ucsd.edu> writes: > I am a bit confused by these numbering schemes. When I look at the > 'Select Packages' section of setup, my choices for bash are 3.1-6 or > 3.1-8. I assumed they were shorthand for 3.1.16 and 3.1.18. Nope, they are shorthand for 3.1.17(6) and 3.1.17(8). Everything after the - is the cygwin release number (ie. the number of times I have attempted to upload to cygwin.com). Everything before the - is the upstream package number. The bash maintainer chooses to number his release tarballs with just two components (3.0, 3.1), but then issues official patches as problems are found. He has released 17 official patches so far, and makes sure that his official patches affect the version number output, but does not make a new tarball. Hopefully, that explains why 'bash --version' shows 3.1.17(8), but setup.exe only shows 3.1-8. > So, I have subscribed to cygwin and cygwin-announce. I am hopeful I > will not be surprised again. > Subscribing to cygwin may be overkill, unless you want to know ALL the sordid details of the cygwin community. But we make it a point to have decent release announcements in cygwin-announce, which then get mirrored to cygwin. In theory, someone subscribed to just cygwin-announce should be able to decide whether or not to upgrade and what to expect as a result of an upgrade. -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/