Setup Misfeature [ Doctor, It hurts when I do this ]
To start right off, the following appears to happen only because I am including a non-canonical site -- at least, the packages involved all come from the same place. 1. Run through the usual steps to select some packages for installation ( Direct Connection, Multiple Mirrors, Admin Priv., For All). DO NOT ACTIVATE THE FINAL NEXT BUTTON. 2. Assume, whoops, I made a mistake. Go BACK 3. NOTE: The setup.ini files are re-fetched. This really should not be necessary - it would be good to be able to review the selections without it. But that's not this bug. 4. View the Out-Of-Date list. I am seeing a large number of packages proposed for installation with blanks in the current version field. If I attempt to select one of these names with the mouse Setup either hangs or dies a horrible death. THIS ALSO HAPPENS IN 2.418 Snapshot Setup. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner. -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software! begin:vcard fn:David A. Cobb n:Cobb;David A. adr:;;7 Lenox Av #1;West Warwick;RI;02893-3918;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Independent Software Consultant x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: libungif - Depends on obsolete X libraries - Rebuild for approval by maintainer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harold L Hunt II wrote: I just uploaded 4.1.0-3 as 'curr' and 4.1.2-1 as 'test', and pushed a new setup.hint that doesn't depend on XFree86-lib-compat. Let us know if/when 4.1.2-1 should be marked as 'curr' and 4.1.0-3 removed. Actually I think that you, with your work close to XFree, are much more competent than me to say if that package is ready to be 'curr' or not 0=) That notwithstanding I have checked your source package patches (moure out of official role than knowledge, as you sure have more knowledge in the graphical packages area) and I perfectly agree on them. Only thing that I noticed is that yuo used the old generic script, but that's perfectly okay (I'd have used the latest, but I prefer your ready package than my half finished one anyway). Lapo - -- L a p o L u c h i n i l a p o @ l a p o . i t w w w . l a p o . i t / http://www.megatokyo.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkBYw/IACgkQaJiCLMjyUvvt3wCg3684oTCnhhGXZy1pQSRyYad6 SegAoOekaEIrSLM5s+duGgXsVyFrhDtx =O+dY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [ITP] flip-1.19 - Convert between Unix and Dos line endings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: ldesc: Flip converts line endings of text files between MS-DOS and **IX formats. It detects binary files in a nearly foolproof way and leaves them alone unless you override this. It will also leave files alone that are already in the right format and preserves file timestamps. User interrupts are handled gracefully and no garbage or corrupted files left behind. I guess that detects binary and interrupts gracefully are the main reasons to prefer that over the standard dos2unix/unix2dos? It may be enough, I never had such problems with dos2unix/unix2dos, but I did never convert many files. Another reason would be that maybe some minimal cygwin user might prefer a small package instead of cygutils... - -- L a p o L u c h i n i l a p o @ l a p o . i t w w w . l a p o . i t / http://www.megatokyo.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkBYxccACgkQaJiCLMjyUvtpvgCffOrOEaSpoY/1mmjpjW5GqtMT eI8An10Kcd8+F3yii2fqqr4OEgVqUszG =B69F -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Heads-up: conflicting files, info/dir files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just tripped over this, so I thought someone might want to do know: $ cygcheck -f /usr/lib/charset.alias fileutils-4.1-2 gettext-0.12.1-3 texinfo-4.2-4 textutils-2.0.21-1 $ cygcheck -f /usr/share/locale/locale.alias gettext-0.12.1-3 texinfo-4.2-4 I got the same results by cygwin.com/packages too. Also, I found the following packages have info/dir files, which last time I checked weren't supposed to be included in packages (some of these results are a little surprising): $ cygcheck -f /usr/info/dir gmp-4.1.2-1 $ cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/dir binutils-20040312-1 cygwin-1.5.8-1 gawk-3.1.3-4 sed-4.0.8-1 tetex-bin-2.0.2-13 Hope this helps. Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAWRiCpiWmPGlmQSMRAt8fAKDmUe58vPULBosPqHALbKONSejPsgCg4UAq T/RU6IvA2JaEfV2GPZxldK8= =ImVI -END PGP SIGNATURE-
