Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: michael-ring@t-online.de (Michael Ring) To: David Dennis , cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: version compatibility Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:03:54 +0200 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Sender: 320032306730-0001@t-dialin.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id RAA04242 On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:36:02 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Folks, > >Long time (1995) linux user. first exposure to cygwin. What I have is no idea >what version works with what apps. B19/B20 is or is not the same as V1.0 or >V1.1 . Does that require DLL 1.1.4 ? > >Also, uname -a reports CYGWIN-4.10 (hostname) 1.1.4(0.26/3/2) 2000-08-03 20:53 >i586 unknown. when installing ssh-1.2.27-cygwin1.1.rpm using rpm 3.0.4, it >reports "package ssh-1.2.27-cygwin1.1 is for a different operating system.' >So in general I'm just confused. help? > This message appears in old ports of rpm because rpm does not know (for example) that a package that was build on w98 is compatible to a rpm running on nt. You can install the rpm with rpm --install --ignoreos ssh-1.2.27-cygwin1.1.rpm If you plan to use rpm in the future you should consider to subscribe to cygwin-apps, a version of rpm-3.0.5 (without the problem) is available for testing. >keep up the good work, > > >-Dave Dennis >seattle, wa >dmd@speakeasy.org Michael Ring -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com