On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> The column width is as long as the widest version number. It seems fine >> to me. It's certainly not 3/4 of the screen width on my system.
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >There was a package at some point that confused setup's versioning logic, >so setup stored a very long version number for it. The package is long >gone from the mirrors, but if the OP was unlucky enough to update while it >was still available, he has a corrupt line in his /etc/setup/installed.db. >Since it's a plain text file, he can just edit it and remove that line (it >should be easy to spot). >HTH, > Igor Yes, it was indeed libopenldap-bananananananananana that was the problem, and removing it from installed.db did fix it. It explains why my home computer, which I update less frequently and which thus missed the heyday of that package, never exhibited the problem. Thanks for your perspicacity. > "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total > Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT Darn, and I missed it! I was really looking forward to seeing the oceans boil off into space. Aaron V. Humphrey Kakari Systems Ltd. -- 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/