Re: package _version_ check

gdbm-1.8.3-7 libbz2_0-1.0.2-1 libgdbm-1.8.0-5 libgdbm3-1.8.3-3 libintl-0.10.38-3 libintl1-0.10.40-1 libncurses5-5.2-1 libncurses6-5.2-8 libreadline4-4.1-2 libtiff3-3.6.0-2 These are mine. it would be very nice if the above packages were re-built against 1.5 No, I don't think so. With one excepti

Re: package _version_ check

>* Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-09 15:49:11 -0400]: > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:40:41PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: > >I am getting spurious failures, and I would love to have them fixed. > > "spurious failures", eh? Yeah, we'll get right on that. I am afraid I do not under

Re: package _version_ check

>* Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-09 15:25:51 -0400]: > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Sam Steingold wrote: > > > shouldn't setup.exe refuse to install 1.5.3 unless all packages that > > use 1.3 are also upgraded? like RPM and apt-get at al do?! > > I think you got it backwards. Cygwin 1

Re: package _version_ check

Sam Steingold wrote: >> Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:58:39 +0100]: >> I've attached a perl script (CVID - Cygwin Version IDentify) that I wrote, >> which you can run on an .exe or .dll. >> It examines "objdump -p" output (so requires binutils), and deduces the API >> based on

Re: package _version_ check

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Steingold wrote: | how do I check that the installed package foo was built against | cygwin 1.5 and not 1.3? "strings"ing and "grep"ing it for "64" should do the trick. e.g. rsync-2.5.6-2 (1.5.x verisonm9 contains: $ strings /usr/bin/rsync.exe |

Re: package _version_ check

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:40:41PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >it would be very nice if the above packages were re-built against 1.5 Pay attention. There is no need to rebuild packages against 1.5. Old applications work fine modulo the usual bugs that crop in with any new release. The hoopla a

Re: package _version_ check

> Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:58:39 +0100]: > Sam Steingold wrote: > > how do I check that the installed package foo was built against cygwin > > 1.5 and not 1.3? > > I've attached a perl script (CVID - Cygwin Version IDentify) that I wrote, > which you can run on an .exe o

Re: package _version_ check

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Sam Steingold wrote: > > Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:02:25 -0400 (EDT)]: > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Sam Steingold wrote: > > > > > how do I check that the installed package foo was built against cygwin > > > 1.5 and not 1.3? > > > > I doubt there's a

Re: package _version_ check

> Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:02:25 -0400 (EDT)]: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Sam Steingold wrote: > > > how do I check that the installed package foo was built against cygwin > > 1.5 and not 1.3? > > I doubt there's a utility that'd tell you that. At a guess, if you > on

Re: package _version_ check

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Sam Steingold wrote: > how do I check that the installed package foo was built against cygwin > 1.5 and not 1.3? I doubt there's a utility that'd tell you that. At a guess, if you only want to distinguish between these two versions, you should be able to call "strings" on an

Re: package _version_ check

Sam Steingold wrote: > how do I check that the installed package foo was built against cygwin > 1.5 and not 1.3? I've attached a perl script (CVID - Cygwin Version IDentify) that I wrote, which you can run on an .exe or .dll. It examines "objdump -p" output (so requires binutils), and deduces the

package _version_ check

how do I check that the installed package foo was built against cygwin 1.5 and not 1.3? -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k An elephant is