From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ed1-x535.google.com (mail-ed1-x535.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::535]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2F3C3858D34 for ; Thu, 28 May 2020 02:58:10 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org F2F3C3858D34 Received: by mail-ed1-x535.google.com with SMTP id c35so5639573edf.5 for ; Wed, 27 May 2020 19:58:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Em1lEYTAZoRcyEWCpUV/J30VPvlA2g7CexBMdGqaQ4k=; b=SD0SNiMdBEeY6be4xKHdX4PiAX+jCf9n1wNDzSELOtt4GSj9C+GGvAPIitjYnSQqoo TKbz9pn32yo7+eXIgpUdBvnQJO+nX85PMsgIQXn4Eni7qSLK8OHWmwhQceuoJXZZVzeh 2/urLZvpajKlkHu2KkvMIT3SDrRo/aoaww6W3bt+HMCjbzQDnzdc+ZNEpCgSHVnoMsxU I6fAdCXlnqCjAQ14ADEDOlVSrCEEu02DamAiB9muFyJEFNg9UWYxMVf1Un6T/O/TuI+A lIKeUI5f9qT0S18OqGMZDnOKXlNjUYcRfhWpN+6dKhiMni58JCXS9wLeSpWJukGgXWgL eAHQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533lZBBcxIluIcbAWm8v9z643OcchKqS2ymFd4sCmmXwYA++KDVq 2SwvDtbnQCbdSKh+u2RiCBHLYvyQasc= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxHgsZFpPj8lS+vP6Lc10ReRY7VonilRT4ZK4KimWsUtwUiMe3z/FiM1La5P5RGmAobFu/ZMw== X-Received: by 2002:a50:f18f:: with SMTP id x15mr1054501edl.228.1590634689103; Wed, 27 May 2020 19:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2003:cc:9f40:7e6a:a58a:36ed:c8b9:8bcb? (p200300cc9f407e6aa58a36edc8b98bcb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:cc:9f40:7e6a:a58a:36ed:c8b9:8bcb]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q5sm4245299ejj.12.2020.05.27.19.58.08 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 27 May 2020 19:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Which rsync version is current? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <384428076.20200527221608@yandex.ru> <4fc30994-90eb-43cb-4390-c94b81ceb22b@cornell.edu> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 04:58:07 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4fc30994-90eb-43cb-4390-c94b81ceb22b@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: it Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 02:58:12 -0000 On 27.05.2020 22:19, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > [Adding the rsync maintainer to the Cc in case he wants to add something.] > > On 5/27/2020 3:34 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: >> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:20 PM Andrey Repin wrote: >> >> >> What I am saying is that the Setup program says the installed version >> is 3.1.3+20200429+gitf7746d0-1. > > The version number shown by setup indicates that the maintainer built > the package from a snapshot of the upstream git repository rather than > from a stable release.  The maintainer chose this version number, > presumably to indicate that the snapshot was made on 2020-04-29 after > git commit f7746d0. > the main reason to put the date in the version is to assure that subsequent releases from git repository will be considered higher by setup and offered as "New" package Using only the git tag you can not reach the scope these are the latest commits on the Rsync code and we can not say from the tag alone which is the latest $ git log --oneline |head 8809f65b A couple minor tweaks. 5710d2fe Simplify the capabilities array. bcb0a24a Convert NEWS & OLDNEWS into .md files. 96ed96da Fix the parsing of the --version capabilities. 8ad2ca9a Install yodl for the CI builds. 23a37eca Get indent right. 47bae3ab Improve output of capabilities in --version list. dff9dd56 Remove xxhash from capabilities list. 7182508a Fix a couple deb names. cb0fe9e1 Improve CI setup. I see the maintainer have tested his choice of f7746d0 and he saw no reason to pack the older 3.1.3 specially as 3.1.3 was NOT building under cygwin https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14365 Regards Marco