Re: [ITCM] bison dash grep gzip m4 readline sed
On 12.08.2021 06:33, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2021-08-11 14:21, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 10.08.2021 07:47, Brian Inglis wrote: Hi folks, Once again been looking over commonly used outdated packages I use frequently which need upgraded and picked another few of Eric Blake's I would like to request to co-maintain and upgrade as they are a few years old. Attn: Eric Blake - advice, comments, concurrence or objections to my co-maintaining the packages for bison dash grep gzip m4 readline sed? added Eric in CC BCC? I assume the previous answer from Eric is also valid here so I added Brian as co-maintainer Thanks Marco I will push each package's updated .cygport to init each package's git-cygwin-package repo, on the playground branch, so builds can be reviewed, and any feedback or suggestions given, as these packages' functioning are fairly core and some are Base packages required in all Cygwin installations. You can always deploy them as test to receive more feedback from user Regards Marco
Re: [ITCM] bison dash grep gzip m4 readline sed
On 2021-08-11 14:21, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 10.08.2021 07:47, Brian Inglis wrote: Hi folks, Once again been looking over commonly used outdated packages I use frequently which need upgraded and picked another few of Eric Blake's I would like to request to co-maintain and upgrade as they are a few years old. Attn: Eric Blake - advice, comments, concurrence or objections to my co-maintaining the packages for bison dash grep gzip m4 readline sed? added Eric in CC BCC? I am as usual dogfooding these, including rerunning the builds and checks after local installs on both arches, but would appreciate any advice about whether any or all of these should be test releases (e.g. readline) before upgrading stable releases (given some recent issues I caused) or other comments or suggestions. These builds have all been tested in the git-cygwin-package playground repo; see: https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=3148..3151,3154-3156 commit links show the package and log links show the results. [I am working up to looking at dealing with bash and/or coreutils: any suggestions for less significant packages to tackle for more experience upgrading packages needing Cygwin tweaks would be welcome! ;^>] I assume the previous answer from Eric is also valid here so I added Brian as co-maintainer Thanks Marco I will push each package's updated .cygport to init each package's git-cygwin-package repo, on the playground branch, so builds can be reviewed, and any feedback or suggestions given, as these packages' functioning are fairly core and some are Base packages required in all Cygwin installations. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in binary units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]
Re: [ITCM] bison dash grep gzip m4 readline sed
On 10.08.2021 07:47, Brian Inglis wrote: Hi folks, Once again been looking over commonly used outdated packages I use frequently which need upgraded and picked another few of Eric Blake's I would like to request to co-maintain and upgrade as they are a few years old. Attn: Eric Blake - advice, comments, concurrence or objections to my co-maintaining the packages for bison dash grep gzip m4 readline sed? added Eric in CC I am as usual dogfooding these, including rerunning the builds and checks after local installs on both arches, but would appreciate any advice about whether any or all of these should be test releases (e.g. readline) before upgrading stable releases (given some recent issues I caused) or other comments or suggestions. These builds have all been tested in the git-cygwin-package playground repo; see: https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=3148..3151,3154-3156 commit links show the package and log links show the results. [I am working up to looking at dealing with bash and/or coreutils: any suggestions for less significant packages to tackle for more experience upgrading packages needing Cygwin tweaks would be welcome! ;^>] I assume the previous answer from Eric is also valid here so I added Brian as co-maintainer Regards Marco
Re: [PATCH setup 06/11] Enable SeCreateSymbolicLink privilege
On Aug 10 18:02, Jon Turney wrote: > I'm not sure if SeCreateSymbolicLink privilege can get removed by UAC > filtering, but to make sure to enable it, if we can. I'm not sure this is required. This is one of the privileges which is enabled automatically on usage if it's present in the token and not marked as "deny only". UAC removes the privilege entirely from the token, so you can't enable it in that case. Corinna
