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Re: Setup.hint for base-passwd is incorrect (setup.exe question)
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:04:56AM -0500, Doug Wyatt wrote:
>>I've just investigated an anomaly with the base-passwd package,
>>which turns out to be an incorrect setup.hint file in the repository.
>>
>>repository base-passwd directories contain
>>
>> base-passwd-2.0-1.tar.bz2 30-Nov-2003 07:16 1k
>> base-passwd-2.1-1.tar.bz2 21-Aug-2004 11:48 1k
>> md5.sum 21-Aug-2004 13:54 1k
>> setup.hint 16-Jul-2004 02:11 1k
>>
>>but the setup.hint file contains
>>
>>sdesc: "A script to set up initial passwords and groups"
>>requires: cygwin ash
>>category: base
>>test: 2.0-1
>>curr: 1.1-1
>>
>>Is 2.0-1 curr and 2.1-1 test, or is 2.0-1 prev and 2.1-1 curr?
>
> I don't remember. Do we still need base-passwd or is this now part
> of setup.exe?
>
> Max? Rob? I see myself responding to threads about this in the archives
> but I'm not clear on what eventually happened.
Wrong way round Chris - base-passwd is the functionality extracted from
setup. I'm not sure what happened to the numbering - there was an
experimental version which added a root user, I'm afraid I must have
gotten something mixed up.
I'll try and sort it out ASAP.
Sorry,
J.
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