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Re: rpm-build setup.hint adjusted
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:30:34 -0400
- Subject: Re: rpm-build setup.hint adjusted
- References: <015e01c92883$0cff6220$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
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