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Re: 1.1.8: du reports incorrect sizes
- To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Subject: Re: 1.1.8: du reports incorrect sizes
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:10:42 -0500
- CC: "Javorcik, William (ITG)" <William_Javorcik at ml dot com>, "'Earnie Boyd'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010214154957.00a8b7f0@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" wrote:
>
> I think that was Earnie's point. The problem could be caused by the new
> du or the new DLL. If you would try the old du running against the new
> DLL, this would answer the question of where the problem lies...
I think the confusion here is about the new packaging system. Packages
such as "fileutils" are now decoupled from the core cygwin. So, on Jan
31, 2001, cygwin-1.1.8-2 replaced cygwin-1.1.7 as the official core
cygwin package. On Dec 27, 2000, cygwin-1.1.7 in turn replaced
cygwin-1.1.6 as the official cygwin core package.
Completely asynchronous to this, however, fileutils-4.0-2 replaced
fileutils<no explicit version, based on 3.12> as the official fileutils
binary package for the cygwin platform on Dec 18, 2000.
So, it means very little to say "the fileutils from cygwin-1.1.8". All
that says is "I updated both cygwin-core and fileutils at some point
after Jan 31, 2001." The question Earnie want answered is:
Did the fileutils-3.12 ---> 4.0-2 change on Dec 18, 2000 cause the
problem, or did the cygwin-core change on Dec 27, 2000 or Jan 31, 2001,
or ... cause the problem?
--Chuck
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