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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:35:06 -0600
From: Warren Young <warren AT etr-usa DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin patch numbers
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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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