Cygwin patch numbers

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 17:19, 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

Beep, wrong. See http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html.

Summary: the -2 is the package update level, not a patch level.

Rob
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