From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17668 invoked by alias); 14 Nov 2008 05:08:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 17515 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Nov 2008 05:08:17 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-96-237-242-157.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (96.237.242.157) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:07:27 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727F313C069 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:07:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 684E72B386; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:07:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:08:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange new release-2 errors from upset Message-ID: <20081114050717.GB26747@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20081107142844.GA9369@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4918B298.9070200@users.sourceforge.net> <20081110231713.GA15503@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4918DFBA.5030204@users.sourceforge.net> <491D0505.8080409@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <491D0505.8080409@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-11/txt/msg00097.txt.bz2 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:56:37PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) on 11/10/2008 6:28 PM: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> The mktemp package is obsolete. It comes from coreutils these days. >> >> Then the transition wasn't correctly handled, because the latest >> mktemp-1.5-4 is a real package. An empty 1.5-5 package should have been >> created at the same time as coreutils-6.10-1 so that mktemp's mktemp(1) >> would be replaced by coreutils'. >> >> It's not too late to fix that, provided we artificially bump coreutils >> to 6.10-2 simultaneously. > >Chuck, according to http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint, you still own >mktemp. I've got the coreutils-6.10-2 build ready to go on release; >are you in a position to push an empty tarball as mktemp-1.5-5, or >would you like me to take care of that as part of pushing the updated >coreutils? I just created an empty mktemp-1.999-9 package. It occurred to me that maybe we should be giving these packages a little more distinctive names so that it is obvious that they are "special". cgf