From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3344 invoked by alias); 28 Jun 2005 03:51:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Received: (qmail 3277 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jun 2005 03:51:30 -0000 Message-ID: <42C0C93B.5030300@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:51:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: NEW: alternatives-1.3.20a-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 This package provides mechanisms for maintaining a database of, and managing, other packages which might be in conflict with each other. The end user can easily switch between the desired versions. This implementation was adapted from the version included in Red Hat/Fedora's 'chkconfig' package. It has been autoconfiscated, chkconfig/ntsysv removed, and adapted for the cygwin packaging standard. It is not typical for an end user to directly use these tools, UNLESS the maintainer(s) of conflicting packages have 'alternativized' them. (e.g. 'alternatives' relies on cooperating packages in order to successfully manage their conflicts.) At present, there are no cygwin packages which have been alternativized, but the five automake1.X packages will soon be released in alternativized form. From the man page: ------------------ alternatives creates, removes, maintains and displays information about the symbolic links comprising the alternatives system. The alternatives system is a reimplementation of the Debian alternatives system. It was rewritten primarily to remove the dependence on perl; it is intended to be a drop in replacement for Debian's update-dependencies script. This man page is a slightly modified version of the man page from the Debian project. -- Charles Wilson To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at the above URL.