From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 43722 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2016 21:25:08 -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 43705 invoked by uid 89); 7 Dec 2016 21:25:07 -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=Hx-spam-relays-external:shaw.ca, H*r:shaw.ca, HX-HELO:sk:smtp-ou, H*RU:shaw.ca X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 21:24:57 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([174.0.238.184]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id EjhvcAMS8cWiHEjhwc5S4M; Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:24:56 -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=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=QNx5F_gu7w-5mKLXJycA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=7pfHQITGRssA:10 a=sRI3_1zDfAgwuvI8zelB:22 Subject: Re: Installer names not meaningful enough References: <20161207095701.GB2661@dimstar.local.net> <3EF08C00-39BE-4A05-898D-49CB71057FD4@yahoo.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Brian Inglis Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Message-ID: Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 21:25:00 -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: <3EF08C00-39BE-4A05-898D-49CB71057FD4@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfHYwfTQuSwjJTS03tCacTnKUhPnaxXmJLbMZ7xXa+AtgBhYWCHazYX/bGIVCCNAUxE4t3gZ1xq+pYAMajqDFTqzVVB4rRWiS2hLo3j/Pfz9VVvtDLVyc wiz79M/4bgSzGXV+CKMJSKDRKL520rQjoWv9sCFZQGB19hX+XWlP8Tjze9w6pFtmdk5ciUSEShZmHQ== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00070.txt.bz2 On 2016-12-07 07:46, Ian Lambert wrote: > On December 7, 2016 4:57:02 AM EST, Duncan Roe wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:11:42AM +0100, Gerrit Haase wrote: >>> 2016-12-01 11:51 GMT+01:00 Roberto Ríos Gallardo says: >>>> Please give the installers more meaningful names. In >>>> particular, make sure "cygwin" is part of it. >>>> "setup-x86_64.exe" is not very obvious. A version number would >>>> be nice too. >>> The version is part of setup.ini in the header: >>> # This file was automatically generated at 2016-12-05 09:43:16 UTC. >>> # >>> # If you edit it, your edits will be discarded next time the file is >>> # generated. See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for details. >>> release: cygwin >>> arch: x86_64 >>> setup-timestamp: 1480930996 >>> setup-version: 2.876 >>> ... >> Where is setup.ini? > $ locate setup.ini > /cygwin-install/path/ftp.some.mirror/x86_64/setup.ini More generally, without locate installed or updated, you can find it quickly with: $ grep -A1 '^last-cache$' /etc/setup/setup.rc last-cache C:/cygwin-package-cache at: $ ls $(cygpath $(sed '0,/^last-cache$/d;q' /etc/setup/setup.rc))/?*tp%3a%2f%2f*cygwin*%2f/x86*/setup.ini giving: $ grep '^setup-version:\s' $(cygpath $(sed '0,/^last-cache$/d;q' /etc/setup/setup.rc))/?*tp%3a%2f%2f*cygwin*%2f/x86*/setup.ini setup-version: 2.876 or: $ sed '/^setup-version:\s/!d;s///' $(cygpath $(sed '0,/^last-cache$/d;q' /etc/setup/setup.rc))/?*tp%3a%2f%2f*cygwin*%2f/x86*/setup.ini 2.876 Unwrap commands if required to copy and paste. -- 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