Christopher Faylor wrote on 07 October 2008 15:31: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:46:08PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-10/msg00107.html >> >> I removed the "Curr:" line from >> /var/ftp/pub/cygwin/release/rpm/rpm-build/setup.hint. >> >> On looking further, I can't find any 4.1-2 release announcement, and >> looking at the timestamps in /var/ftp/pub/cygwin/release/rpm as a whole, >> it appears that 4.1-1 was a May 2003 release, and that quite possibly >> what's happened is some kind of a half-update in place in May 2005 where >> the main exe tarball got updated and the associated subsidiary tarballs >> got renamed-in-place. >> >> setup.ini has refreshed now, and I notice that the -doc hint file has >> the same problem, so there's still no legit version in setup.ini for >> that; I'll make the same change. > > Please don't make changes to my packages. I am capable of doing that > myself. When you make even well-intentioned changes it makes it difficult > for me to track down what the problem was. > > cgf
Sorry. Here is a diff showing the change I made: -bash-3.00$ !dif diff -pu /var/ftp/pub/cygwin/release/rpm/rpm-build/setup.hint ./setup.hint --- /var/ftp/pub/cygwin/release/rpm/rpm-build/setup.hint 2008-10-07 13:32:48.000000000 +0000 +++ ./setup.hint 2008-10-07 13:31:52.000000000 +0000 @@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ that are used to build packages using th category: Utils requires: cygwin rpm make patch perl external-source: rpm +curr: 4.1-1 -bash-3.00$ This was the exact same change for both rpm-build/setup.hint and rpm-doc/setup.hint. I've also taken a look at one of the mirrors (heanet): The original file timestamps were: Index of /pub/cygwin/release/rpm/rpm-doc Icon Name Last modified Size Description[DIR] Parent Directory - [ ] md5.sum 20-Aug-2008 17:07 101 [ ] rpm-doc-4.1-2.tar.bz2 06-May-2003 14:25 50K [ ] setup.hint 11-Feb-2005 03:49 160 Index of /pub/cygwin/release/rpm/rpm-build Icon Name Last modified Size Description[DIR] Parent Directory - [ ] md5.sum 20-Aug-2008 17:07 103 [ ] rpm-build-4.1-2.tar.bz2 06-May-2003 14:26 568K [ ] setup.hint 11-Feb-2005 03:49 293 Is there any other information that could have been lost by my meddling, or does that tell you everything that you could otherwise have found out if I hadn't done it? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....