"apt-cyg packageof" doesn't find 'telnet' in 'inetutils'

[Ben Klaasen]

Hi - 

First off, thank you very much for apt-cyg - I love it. I almost feel like I'm at the console of my Debian system when I'm using it!

I've noticed that for some reason "apt-cyg packageof telnet" doesn't find telnet in inetutils. (Yes, I'm aware of all the usual caveats about telnet.) 

Take a look at this: To start with, there's no telnet on my path:

BENK@benk01:~$ which telnet

which: no telnet in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/<snip>

...so I use "apt-cyg packageof" to find it:

BENK@benk01:~$ apt-cyg packageof telnet

Found telnet in the package cygwin

Found telnet in the package perl_vendor

Found telnet in the package python

Found telnet in the package ruby

...but actually I know it's in the package inetutils, according to this conversation: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-08/msg00470.html

...so I install that:

BENK@benk01:~$ apt-cyg install inetutils

Working directory is /setup

Mirror is ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin

--2013-03-08 11:46:12--  ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin/setup.bz2

<snip>

Length: 385658 (377K) [application/octet-stream]

Saving to: `inetutils-1.7-2.tar.bz2'

100%[============================================================================================================>] 385,658     --.-K/s   in 0.003s  

2013-03-08 11:46:18 (105 MB/s) - `inetutils-1.7-2.tar.bz2' saved [385658/385658]

Unpacking...

Package inetutils requires the following packages, installing:

crypt libgcc1 libncursesw10 libreadline7 libwrap0 csih terminfo _update-info-dir

Package crypt is already installed, skipping

Package libgcc1 is already installed, skipping

Package libncursesw10 is already installed, skipping

Package libreadline7 is already installed, skipping

Package libwrap0 is already installed, skipping

Package csih is already installed, skipping

Package terminfo is already installed, skipping

Package _update-info-dir is already installed, skipping

Running postinstall scripts

*** Info: Note that the inetd service and the xinetd service must not

*** Info: both be active at the same time.  The easiest way to ensure

*** Info: this is to only install one or the other as a service.

*** Query: Do you want to install the inetd super-server as a service? (yes/no) no

Configuration finished. Have fun!

*** Warning: The following function requires administrator privileges!

*** Query: Do you want to install syslogd as service? (yes/no) no

Configuration finished. Have fun!

Package inetutils installed

...and now I check for the presence of telnet again:

BENK@benk01:~$ which telnet

/usr/bin/telnet

What's going on here? Are the cygwin packagers failing to list telnet in the inetutils package, or something?

regards

Ben