Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Technically, these packages *do* require bash, and coreutils, and possibly
others, so automatic dependency detection is hard (we don't want to have
setup parse shell scripts). Perhaps we should augment the depends
function of the g-b-s to also look at the postinstall
On Oct 13 22:19, Christopher Faylor wrote:
Is there any way that my proposal of adding a check to see if the currently
selected mirror is in the list of mirrors and issuing a pop-up warning if
not, could be implemented?
I suppose that this would have to be defeatable for people who want to
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Is there any way that my proposal of adding a check to see if the currently
selected mirror is in the list of mirrors and issuing a pop-up warning if
not, could be implemented?
I suppose that this would have to be defeatable for people who want to
use setup.exe
On Oct 14 03:30, Brian Dessent wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Is there any way that my proposal of adding a check to see if the
currently
selected mirror is in the list of mirrors and issuing a pop-up warning if
not, could be implemented?
I suppose that this would have to be
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Technically, these packages *do* require bash, and coreutils, and possibly
others, so automatic dependency detection is hard (we don't want to have
setup parse shell scripts). Perhaps we should augment the depends
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 14 03:30, Brian Dessent wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Is there any way that my proposal of adding a check to see if the
currently
selected mirror is in the list of mirrors and issuing a pop-up warning
if
not, could be
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According to Christian Weinberger on 10/14/2005 12:26 AM:
I could not post to the cygwin applications list via gmane, so I reply
to the main list. Apologies if this not the way it should be done.
I don't know why cygwin-apps is registered as a
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Eric Blake wrote:
According to Igor Pechtchanski on 10/13/2005 5:36 PM:
Exactly. So I'm asking again: *is* this the consensus? If so, I'll
remove that section from the readme template.
You've got my vote - I have to edit the readme file for every release to
give
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski writes:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
@@ -340,6 +349,7 @@
cp $0.sig ${srcinstdir}/ ; \
fi \
cd ${srcinstdir} \
+ tar cvjf ${log_pkg_name} *.LOG rm *.LOG \
tar cvjf ${src_pkg} * )
}
finish() {
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski writes:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
@@ -340,6 +349,7 @@
cp $0.sig ${srcinstdir}/ ; \
fi \
cd ${srcinstdir} \
+ tar cvjf ${log_pkg_name} *.LOG rm
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 14 03:30, Brian Dessent wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Is there any way that my proposal of adding a check to see if the
currently
selected mirror is in the
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:34:41AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
According to Christian Weinberger on 10/14/2005 12:26 AM:
I could not post to the cygwin applications list via gmane, so I reply
to the main list. Apologies if this not the way it should be done.
I don't know why cygwin-apps is
cygwin-apps is a... wait for it... mailing list. It is a *moderated*
mailing list. It is moderated for a reason. Having it moderated for
email and not moderated for anyone who figured out how to use gmane has
already been shown to be a bad idea. I don't want a back door method
for
Package reviewers: New trial packages for pstoedit, linking to the recently
uploaded plotutils package, are on my server:
ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/pstoedit/pstoedit-3.42-1-src.tar.bz2
ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/pstoedit/pstoedit-3.42-1.tar.bz2
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:32:44PM +, Eric Blake wrote:
cgf wrote:
cygwin-apps is a... wait for it... mailing list. It is a *moderated*
mailing list. It is moderated for a reason. Having it moderated for
email and not moderated for anyone who figured out how to use gmane has
already been
On Oct 14 10:44, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 14 03:30, Brian Dessent wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I suppose that this would have to be defeatable for people who want
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
To reiterate, I think that it makes sense to differ between a
*manually added* mirror and a chosen mirror from the official mirror
list, which is just dead or comatose or something.
Manually added mirrors are usually either company mirrors or in some
other way under
Brian Dessent wrote:
Except, from the standpoint of setup there is no way to distinguish the
following two scenarios:
That is, unless you meant mirror that was manually added *this
session*, whereas I was interpreting it to be user manually entered a
non-official mirror at some point in the
On 10/14/2005 5:15 PM, Brian Dessent wrote:
I like the idea of Don't show this again option because it's a
standard dialog item that people are familiar with, and it makes it easy
for them to acknowledge that they might be doing something wrong but
they don't want to be pestered about it every
Brian Dessent wrote:
Except, from the standpoint of setup there is no way to distinguish the
following two scenarios:
A) User knowingly uses local company mirror, or uses a non-official
mirror to install non-official packages.
B) 2 years ago, user chose a mirror located on a ISDN line in Outer
Warren Young wrote:
The the mirror list could show nonstandard mirrors in a different color.
But every mirror in the mirrors.lst is an official mirror. There can be
at most only one mirror URL in the dialog that is not official: the one
that the user has just typed in, or the one that was used
Brian Dessent wrote:
There can be
at most only one mirror URL in the dialog that is not official:
Ah. I didn't know that limitation.
I'm thinking an asterisk after the name (with
dialog text explaining its meaning), since using color becomes confusing
when you also have the
CGF It is useless. You probaby have to continue
CGF after ld has been attached to see where the
CGF SEGV really is coming from.
Thanks. Here is the result...
GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-28-cvs (cygwin-special)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU
uw-imap (whose maintainer, AFAICS, has yet to respond to reply to
Corinna's message) is vulnerable to remote overflow of a buffer in the
IMAP server leading to execution of arbitrary code.
The only solution is to upgrade to 2004g (current Cygwin release is
2002e!).
I built 2004g and it
One last post before calling it a night. I built a debug version of the
cygwin DLL as well and installed it. Here is the latest gdb session:
Attaching to program `/bin/ld.exe', process 304
[Switching to thread 304.0x990]
(gdb) bt
#0 0x7c901231 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg ()
from
Mattias Brändström wrote:
Václav Haisman wrote:
/usr/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s-1_33.a*
/usr/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s.a*
This is called 'versioned' layout.
In my build scripts I would still like to be able to specify
-lboost_date_time and not -lboost_date_time-gcc-mt-s. Is
Václav Haisman wrote:
Have the test libraries worked in any previous version of boost for
Cygwin? If so, is there any way that I can install that version instead?
I don't know. The current Boost package is the only Boost Cygwin package
so far. You could try to compile some older Boost than
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Christopher Faylor writes:
LOL.
Propose a gold star for Antony Baxter - I believe he is the first
person on record as getting a laugh out of CGF!
ht
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Henry S. Thompson wrote:
Christopher Faylor writes:
LOL.
Propose a gold star for Antony Baxter - I believe he is the first
person on record as getting a laugh out of CGF!
I second this propose ;)
Gerrit
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According to Christian Weinberger on 10/14/2005 12:26 AM:
I could not post to the cygwin applications list via gmane, so I reply
to the main list. Apologies if this not the way it should be done.
I don't know why cygwin-apps is registered as a
Christopher Faylor writes:
LOL.
Propose a gold star for Antony Baxter - I believe he
is
the first person on record as getting a laugh out of
CGF!
ht
Thank you, thank you, bows/ you're too kind!
However, I think it would just be construed as a form
of nepotism - for the record Henry
in my opition you should copy the cygwin1.dll to the winnt/system32
directory.Ignore whatever the installer say there is an old dll in XXX
path
2005/10/13, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The procedure entry point getline could not be located in the dynamic link
library cygwin1.dll!
What
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted.
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Kern wrote:
2005/10/13, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks.
The procedure entry point getline could not be located in the
dynamic link library cygwin1.dll!
What was the title of
Well, I want to install cygwin on a production server and wanted to make
sure there are no current security concerns or things that I should be aware
of. I just wanted to know if anybody else had any issues where it
conflicted with any existing application that was running at the time or any
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Eric Blake wrote:
I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am
reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same
issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k,
the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows
2000 (KB904706)
Kern wrote:
in my opition you should copy the cygwin1.dll to the winnt/system32
directory.Ignore whatever the installer say there is an old dll in XXX
path
Errr.. NO!
If you want to use the cygwin1.dll that's a part of cygwin, add
cygwin\bin to your path (drive letter omitted here).
Then you
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:50:45PM -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote:
One last post before calling it a night. I built a debug version of the
cygwin DLL as well and installed it. Here is the latest gdb session:
I don't remember if I suggested trying a snapshot but I'm wondering if
a snapshot would
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:24:44PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
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Christopher Faylor writes:
LOL.
Propose a gold star for Antony Baxter - I believe he is the first
person on record as getting a laugh out of CGF!
I want to keep a cygwin installation on a shared network drive and
then then use it from any computer. Has anybody accomplished this? Can
you point me to some instructions?
I would guess there is some setup required, such as loading the mount
points in registry. Anything else?
Thanks you.
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:07:37PM -0400, Bogdan Calmac wrote:
I want to keep a cygwin installation on a shared network drive and
then then use it from any computer. Has anybody accomplished this? Can
you point me to some instructions?
I would guess there is some setup required, such as loading
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:24:44PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
Christopher Faylor writes:
LOL.
Propose a gold star for Antony Baxter - I believe he is the first
person on record as getting a laugh out of CGF!
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:46:34PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:24:44PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
Christopher Faylor writes:
LOL.
Propose a gold star for Antony Baxter - I believe he is the first
person
I want to use rxvt shipped with cygwin as a replacement for the windows
crappy terminal which cygwin uses as default.
The problem is that native windows binaries like edit.com or python for
windows does not work in rxvt. The terminal just hangs up.
Is there a solution for this or what is the
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:07:37PM -0400, Bogdan Calmac wrote:
I want to keep a cygwin installation on a shared network drive and
then then use it from any computer. Has anybody accomplished this? Can
you point me to some instructions?
I would
On 10/14/2005, ABi DaR wrote:
Well, I want to install cygwin on a production server and wanted to make
sure there are no current security concerns or things that I should be
aware of. I just wanted to know if anybody else had any issues where it
conflicted with any existing application that
PS = Peter J. Stieber
PSOne last post before calling it a night. I built a debug
PS version of the cygwin DLL as well and installed it.
PS Here is the latest gdb session:
CGF I don't remember if I suggested trying a snapshot
CGF but I'm wondering if a snapshot would just fix
CGF your problem:
Christoffer Gurell wrote:
I want to use rxvt shipped with cygwin as a replacement for the windows
crappy terminal which cygwin uses as default.
The problem is that native windows binaries like edit.com or python for
windows does not work in rxvt. The terminal just hangs up.
Is there a solution
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:15:36AM -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote:
PS = Peter J. Stieber
PSOne last post before calling it a night. I built a debug
PS version of the cygwin DLL as well and installed it.
PS Here is the latest gdb session:
CGF I don't remember if I suggested trying a snapshot
CGF
PSTried 20051013 and it worked :-)))
CGF I'm sorry that it didn't occur to me much
CGF earlier that this was a cygwin
CGF heap problem that was fixed in a snapshot.
CGF I guess that, as a rule of thumb,
CGF try a snapshot is always a good idea.
Not to be a total brown nose, but I've been
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 10 21:29, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
I believe this may be an instance of the error I reported in
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00552.html. Basically,
the PATH conversion code stops whenever it encounters an invalid
element
I'm not the original poster but I'm seeing the same problem. Igor, your
2.513.1-alpha build generates the following setup.log.full:
2005/10/14 10:54:10 Starting cygwin install, version 2.513
2005/10/14 10:54:10 Current Directory: G:\LocalPkg\cygwin
2005/10/14 10:54:10 Changing gid to Users
I'm encountering a weird problem with sleep.
If I run
$ while true; do sleep 120; done
[1] 6780
$ kill %1
the bash process (6780) and its child sleep process are both killed.
However, if I kill the bash process using the pid, the child sleep
process is not killed.
$ while true; do sleep
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:36:55PM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote:
I'm encountering a weird problem with sleep.
If I run
$ while true; do sleep 120; done
[1] 6780
$ kill %1
the bash process (6780) and its child sleep process are both killed.
However, if I kill the bash process using the pid,
Cygwin:
When I use Cygwin to ssh into a Debian 3.1 stable (Sarge) machine and run
top, the newlines seem to be double-expanded -- e.g. there is a blank line
between each line of information. This problem does not occur when I ssh into a
Debian 3.0 stable (Woody) machine. This problem does not
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