Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:52:41 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup.hint for base-passwd is incorrect (setup.exe question) Message-ID: <20040930185241.GC23148@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <415B69C8 DOT 15810 DOT 82951F AT localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <415B69C8.15810.82951F@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:04:56AM -0500, Doug Wyatt wrote: >I've just investigated an anomaly with the base-passwd package, >which turns out to be an incorrect setup.hint file in the repository. > >repository base-passwd directories contain > > base-passwd-2.0-1.tar.bz2 30-Nov-2003 07:16 1k > base-passwd-2.1-1.tar.bz2 21-Aug-2004 11:48 1k > md5.sum 21-Aug-2004 13:54 1k > setup.hint 16-Jul-2004 02:11 1k > >but the setup.hint file contains > >sdesc: "A script to set up initial passwords and groups" >requires: cygwin ash >category: base >test: 2.0-1 >curr: 1.1-1 > >Is 2.0-1 curr and 2.1-1 test, or is 2.0-1 prev and 2.1-1 curr? I don't remember. Do we still need base-passwd or is this now part of setup.exe? Max? Rob? I see myself responding to threads about this in the archives but I'm not clear on what eventually happened. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/