Re: Oops?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:34:57PM -0700, Stephen C. Biggs wrote:
>On 3 Aug 2002 at 13:57, Christopher Faylor 
>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 09:30:15AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>>>>Am I right?  Did someone make a small error?  I just tried to update my
>>>>cygwin installation and found that there was version 1.3.12-3 of the
>>>>cygwin DLL.  Downloading and looking at the resulting installed DLL in
>>>>/bin gives a version of 1.3.12 and file date a couple of days before
>>>>Version 1.3.12-1!
>>>
>>>No.  See
>>>
>>>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-08/msg00168.html
>>>
>>>Especially the part about: "The /usr/info/lib?.info* files have also
>>>been moved from the cygwin package to the cygwin-doc package as of
>>>cygwin-1.3.12-3 (this was the only change between cygwin-1.3.12-2 and
>>>cygwin-1.3.12-3)."
>>>
>>>I don't know about the file date, check the API version numbers (uname
>>>-a), the part in parenthesis after the 1.3.12.
>>
>>Actually, I screwed up and apparently repackaged an older cygwin when I
>>rebuilt 1.3.12-3.  I'm uploading a 1.3.12-4 based on 1.3.12-2 now.
>
>Just downloaded this from mirrors.rcn.net and the dll version is
>1.3.12-1 with a date of 5 July 2002.  Right where it was before.

I'm not sure how you'd come to the conclusion that this was 1.3.12-1.

However, as I said, I based this release on cygwin 1.3.12-2.  It was
just a repackaging of the tar file without the info files.

cgf

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