Re: Change to passwd in cygwin-1.7.10-1 breaks ssh-host-config

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>]

On 2/22/2012 4:11 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> If you're trying for consistency across the board, the prev button is 
> the closest you're going to get.  If you want to back down a package 
> or few, go to the package list and toggle through the available 
> options until you find the previous version.  I'd recommend this.
I don't think you understand what I mean. First off I don't see a "prev 
button". At the top I see toggles that say Keep, Cur and Exp. Did you 
mean Keep? I don't think so.

For individual lines there is a "New" column and I'm familiar with the 
cycling behavior between things like Keep, Uninstall, Reinstall, Skip 
and current and older version numbers. But this is on a by package 
basis. What I'm asking for is a button or way to say "Oh this is 1.7.10. 
I want all of the Cygwin things that were associated with 1.7.9. Toggle 
all of the packages back to their versions that were released when 1.7.9 
was released". Maybe such a beast doesn't exist...
> You're still very likely better off at least trying the snapshot so 
> that you and the rest of us know that the issue is resolved and moving 
> forward is a viable possibility.  After that, if you want to try to 
> backup to a previous version, you can do that with some confidence in 
> the future. :-)
But I didn't hit this problem. Stated differently, when I ran 
ssh-host-config months ago it worked just fine.

I guess I could play around going to a snapshot and seeing if 
ssh-host-config works (or perhaps just change the passwd -v to passwd -V 
in the one script) but I'm trying to establish a known set of working 
Cygwin environment right now.
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