From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 45016 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2016 19:05:57 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 45008 invoked by uid 89); 5 Dec 2016 19:05:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=calgary, Hx-spam-relays-external:shaw.ca, H*r:shaw.ca, HX-HELO:sk:smtp-ou X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 19:05:46 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([174.0.238.184]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id Dya7ct8UXcWiHDya8cw8in; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:05:45 -0700 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=JLBLi4Cb c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:117 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=rFSrpKcQU-gqC0k_aaAA:9 a=nc9EFkV3Rvxlbotu:21 a=sSssSgQmP9osgEwS:21 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=6kGIvZw6iX1k4Y-7sg4_:22 a=sRI3_1zDfAgwuvI8zelB:22 Subject: Re: Installer names not meaningful enough References: <93ce058d-79e6-a213-1b6f-1ec3438b71c4@gmail.com> <5d61771c-00e8-9adb-58ff-8094bf12e550@gmail.com> <20161205173630.GA1749@fedora.wp.comcast.net> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <9c407e66-0775-a183-c168-6e7fd4e0e741@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 19:05:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161205173630.GA1749@fedora.wp.comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfDa2zGTQ1Inw8/w3LQNFuTKjfbAUW7+g9mynrgwQMoyKus1WFEr+CtMriduJR9+7wYRAVWssBtTQEQZYBerSRill9HizYXaFWXzS3HJgLX1GufnnAXDg TKBLtjFxmPeUw91QxyTlJWOzhJy2Ct7goVUUWfqY09kMjVWfxNpMOE6oBNFn7ryR9wvjLKeuFmBpsQ== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 On 2016-12-05 10:36, Stephen Paul Carrier wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:37:41AM -0500, Ian Lambert wrote: >> On December 1, 2016 8:54:57 AM EST, cyg Simple wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 12/1/2016 8:25 AM, Vlado wrote: >>>> On 1.12.2016 13:51, Eliot Moss wrote: >>>>> I think that including the version of the setup program could be >>> helpful >>>>> - I tend >>>>> to add it (renaming the file by hand). However, clearly we've lived >>>>> with things this >>>>> way for a long time ... >>> >>> More than a score years. >>> >>>> >>>> I disagree. >>>> I have a script to update Cygwin. This script checks for new version >>> of >>>> setup, downloads, verifies signature, etc. Things would become much >>> more >>>> complicated with variable setup file name. >>>> Finally: Why should I care about the exact version number of setup? >>>> Script makes backups of the old setup files like setup.exe.0001, >>> 0002, >>>> ..., just for a cause, but never in the past I did have to looking >>> for >>>> the setup with exact version number. >>>> >>> >>> The only reason would be if you had an older version of the .ini file. >>> When the data prerequisites of the .ini file change there is a new >>> version of setup to handle that. > > Right, and the way to learn if this is the case is to run setup. I learn > that a new version is available by running the old version. > > Running setup is also the way to find out what is the version. > > I don't mind renaming the file myself, but would really appreciate any > way to know from the cygwin.com front page exactly which version of the > setup-*.exe is on offer. (The current version of Cygwin DLL is useful, > but not the same thing.) You can get the Setup version by installing upx and running: cp -fp $DIR/setup-x86*.exe /tmp/setup && \ upx -dqqq /tmp/setup && \ egrep -ao '%%%\ssetup-version\s[.0-9]+' /tmp/setup | \ sed 's/%%%\ssetup-version\s//' && \ rm -f /tmp/setup -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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