> 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.
Wrong way round Chris - base-passwd is the functionality extracted from setup. I'm not sure what happened to the numbering - there was an experimental version which added a root user, I'm afraid I must have gotten something mixed up. I'll try and sort it out ASAP. Sorry, J. -- 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/
