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Re: rpm-build setup.hint adjusted
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:59:28PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>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.
>
> Sorry. Here is a diff showing the change I made:
Thanks. I took a look around on an old mirror to see what you'd done.
I should have made that clear in my original message.
Thanks for noticing this too. At some point I really have to get out a new
version of rpm.
cgf