Cygwin patch numbers
Max Bowsher
maxb@ukf.net
Wed Apr 23 00:11:00 GMT 2003
Peter S Tillier wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I notice that the Cygwin developers use a standard naming convention for
> the packages containing, for example gawk and sed. This convention is
> based upon the tool's version number and various patch levels, such as:
>
> gawk-3.1.2-2.tar.bz2
>
> 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?
I doubt that most Cygwin package maintainers are going to hunt out version
strings and change them - especially since this part of a patch would cause
a conflict every time they started work on a new version.
In any case:
$ cygcheck -c gawk
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version
gawk 3.1.2-2
Use -h to see help about each section
$
Max.
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