From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31233 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2012 01:46:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 31225 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Feb 2012 01:46:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vms173011pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173011pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:46:39 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([unknown] [108.7.36.242]) by vms173011.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LZT0050GOXGTAG0@vms173011.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:46:33 -0600 (CST) Message-id: <4F459A75.1040200@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:46:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Change to passwd in cygwin-1.7.10-1 breaks ssh-host-config References: <5792aa960fbaca409f15179dbe31fa0c.squirrel@deadeye.schutter.home> <20120208203016.GD23481@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F336323.7010904@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20120209110446.GC23330@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F452A55.6050103@DeFaria.com> <20120222205522.GE7657@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F458432.3080806@cygwin.com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-02/txt/msg00664.txt.bz2 On 2/22/2012 8:31 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 2/22/2012 4:11 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> If you're trying for consistency across the board, the prev button is the >> closest you're going to get. If you want to back down a package or few, go >> to the package list and toggle through the available options until you >> find the previous version. I'd recommend this. > I don't think you understand what I mean. First off I don't see a "prev > button". At the top I see toggles that say Keep, Cur and Exp. Did you mean > Keep? I don't think so. > > For individual lines there is a "New" column and I'm familiar with the > cycling behavior between things like Keep, Uninstall, Reinstall, Skip and > current and older version numbers. But this is on a by package basis. What > I'm asking for is a button or way to say "Oh this is 1.7.10. I want all of > the Cygwin things that were associated with 1.7.9. Toggle all of the > packages back to their versions that were released when 1.7.9 was released". > Maybe such a beast doesn't exist... Yup, that's essentially the heart of it. >> You're still very likely better off at least trying the snapshot so that >> you and the rest of us know that the issue is resolved and moving forward >> is a viable possibility. After that, if you want to try to backup to a >> previous version, you can do that with some confidence in the future. :-) > But I didn't hit this problem. Stated differently, when I ran > ssh-host-config months ago it worked just fine. Sure. And then things changed. > I guess I could play around going to a snapshot and seeing if > ssh-host-config works (or perhaps just change the passwd -v to passwd -V in > the one script) but I'm trying to establish a known set of working Cygwin > environment right now. That's fine. I'd recommend either grabbing a new snapshot or installing the test version of csih. Either is supposed to fix the problem. And either is better by most measures than trying to back up or make edits locally. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple