Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:45:35 +0100 (MET) | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Improved version reporting |
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From: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
Neither am I - but, according to comments from RedHat a while back, they repackage mount separately because they provide a NEWER version of mount than is in the util-linux package. This will ALSO result in `mount --version` giving the wrong answer...
There is no newer version. In ancient times I came with frequent releases of mount, at a time when util-linux was released very infrequently. These years mount is part of util-linux, and util-linux is released frequently.
Unless one can guarantee that the util-linux and mount packages are the SAME version, mount can't be guaranteed to report the version of the util-linux package installed. RedHat provide a NEWER version of mount to util-linux so that guarantee doesnae exist.
I do not think they do.
> You are mistaken, as is proved by the reports that contain a kbd > line: a grep on linux-kernel for this Februari shows people with > Kbd 0.96, 0.99 and 1.02. {Shrug} Please explain why I was unable to get ver_linux to report a When other people can and you cannot, why should I explain your failure? Let me just check. A version from 1993:
% ./loadkeys -h 2>&1 | head -1 loadkeys version 0.81 A version from 2001:
% ./loadkeys -h 2>&1 | head -1 loadkeys version 1.06 Maybe nothing has changed here the past eight years. It just works. Perhaps you tried some modified version.
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