Re: Cygwin distribution versioning

2003-03-16 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hmm, to simplify it even more, there is no concept of "the entire cygwin | distribution" :-D There's only a fluid set of packages, each of which has | a version. So basically you can give cygwin a version number based on date or similar, and thus y

Re: Cygwin distribution versioning

2003-03-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hmm, to simplify it even more, there is no concept of "the entire cygwin distribution" :-D There's only a fluid set of packages, each of which has a version. Igor On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Tim Largy wrote: > I've answered my own question. There is no concept of versioning for the > entire cyg

Re: Cygwin distribution versioning

2003-03-15 Thread Tim Largy
I've answered my own question. There is no concept of versioning for the entire cygwin distribution (source: the cygwin FAQ). Tim Largy wrote: When discussing cygwin issues, how does one identify the version of his/her cygwin distribution? The "setup.log" file created by the cygwin installer gi

Re: Cygwin distribution versioning

2003-03-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Tim, The "cygcheck" command can be used to print detailed information about all your installed Cygwin software ("cygcheck -s", "cygcheck --help", "man cygcheck"). The Cygwin DLL itself can be identified with "uname -a". Most of the executable programs in Cygwin will disclose their version when