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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:10:42 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
CC: "Javorcik, William (ITG)" <William_Javorcik AT ml DOT com>,
        "'Earnie Boyd'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: 1.1.8: du reports incorrect sizes
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"Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" wrote:
> 
> I think that was Earnie's point.  The problem could be caused by the new
> du or the new DLL.  If you would try the old du running against the new
> DLL, this would answer the question of where the problem lies...

I think the confusion here is about the new packaging system.  Packages
such as "fileutils" are now decoupled from the core cygwin.  So, on Jan
31, 2001, cygwin-1.1.8-2 replaced cygwin-1.1.7 as the official core
cygwin package.  On Dec 27, 2000, cygwin-1.1.7 in turn replaced
cygwin-1.1.6 as the official cygwin core package.

Completely asynchronous to this, however, fileutils-4.0-2 replaced
fileutils<no explicit version, based on 3.12> as the official fileutils
binary package for the cygwin platform on Dec 18, 2000.

So, it means very little to say "the fileutils from cygwin-1.1.8".  All
that says is "I updated both cygwin-core and fileutils at some point
after Jan 31, 2001."  The question Earnie want answered is:

Did the fileutils-3.12 ---> 4.0-2 change on Dec 18, 2000 cause  the
problem, or did the cygwin-core change on Dec 27, 2000 or Jan 31, 2001,
or ... cause the problem?

--Chuck

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