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Subject:	Re: Cygwin patch numbers
From:	Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	Peter S Tillier <petert AT eq1152 DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Cc:	Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Date:	23 Apr 2003 07:54:22 +1000

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On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 17:19, Peter S Tillier wrote:
> Folks,
>=20
> 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:
>=20
>  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
--=20
GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.

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