Cygwin patch numbers
Warren Young
warren@etr-usa.com
Wed Apr 23 21:10:00 GMT 2003
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Why should packages on Cygwin show another version number than the same
> package on e. g. Linux? For instance the grep package:
>
> linux$ rpm -q grep
> grep-2.4.2-6
> linux$ grep --version
> grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
> [...]
Perfectly reasonable behavior. It's the package manager's job to track
package update levels, not the binaries' job. We have a system with
cygcheck that works tolerably well now; if someday Cygwin moves to RPM,
it will be even easier to find package update levels.
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