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Re: Cygwin patch numbers


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?


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
	$

In the meantime, the cygcheck feature mentioned above seems to do what you want.


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