RFC: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages

2005-11-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
As the latest installment in the recent series of major D'oh!s, I realized that the installation profiles I previously proposed for setup could be initially implemented as special packages with the right dependences. This still doesn't absolve us from adding some more sophisticated support for

RE: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages

2005-11-08 Thread Robb, Sam
IMO, these packages should be in a special new category (I propose the name @Profiles to make setup put this at the top, but I don't know if setup will parse this correctly). I've attached a few sample profile packages for commonly requested configurations with the corresponding

RE: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages

2005-11-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Robb, Sam wrote: IMO, these packages should be in a special new category (I propose the name @Profiles to make setup put this at the top, but I don't know if setup will parse this correctly). I've attached a few sample profile packages for commonly requested

Re: RFC: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages

2005-11-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:52:20PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: As the latest installment in the recent series of major D'oh!s, I realized that the installation profiles I previously proposed for setup could be initially implemented as special packages with the right dependences. This still

Re: [Patch] Setup: Warn about dropped mirrors.

2005-11-08 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:29:10 +0100 (MET) schreef Bas van Gompel in n2m-g.dkbctp.3vv3gvj.1atbuzzy-box.bavag: : Op Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:17:15 -0400 (EDT) schreef Igor Pechtchanski [Using cached mirror-list] : I didn't add the info to last-mirror, because that would make for more : needlesly

Re: [ITP] libidn-0.5.20

2005-11-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Gerrit P Haase writes: Hmm, you may use --disable-gtk-doc, the docs are included and usable anyway. I'll take a look later, though I need to rebuild because I have no logs and the build finished without hang, the script uses set -e / set -x, so it

{Patch} Setup: Tell where we're downloading from.

2005-11-08 Thread Bas van Gompel
Hi, Here is a patch to make setup tell where files are actually being downloaded from. ChangeLog-entry: (Please fix the at.) 2005-11-08 Bas van Gompel patch-cygsup.buzzatbavag.tmfweb.nl * geturl.cc (init_dialog): Tell where file is downloaded from. --- setup/geturl.cc 5 May

Re: RFC: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages

2005-11-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:52:20PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: As the latest installment in the recent series of major D'oh!s, I realized that the installation profiles I previously proposed for setup could be initially implemented as special

Wrong icons

2005-11-08 Thread Rodrigo Medina
HI, In X-start-menu-icons-1.0.4 the X-icon has been replaced by an icon of VIM. bye, R.M. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ:

documentation of run.exe

2005-11-08 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi, Where can be found the documentation of run? R.M. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/

Re: documentation of run.exe

2005-11-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 09:44 -0400, Rodrigo Medina wrote: Hi, Where can be found the documentation of run? No one has written one so far. Lets try with this one: RUN(1) User Commands RUN(1) NAME run - start programs with hidden console SYNOPSIS

Re: Wrong icons

2005-11-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 09:30 -0400, Rodrigo Medina wrote: HI, In X-start-menu-icons-1.0.4 the X-icon has been replaced by an icon of VIM. I can't reproduce this. With the last update I indeed added some icons (gvim, rxvt, emacs) to match with the last upstream source. However, reinstalling

Re: Wrong icons

2005-11-08 Thread Tony Richardson
Alexander Gottwald alexander.gottwald at s1999.tu-chemnitz.de writes: On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 09:30 -0400, Rodrigo Medina wrote: HI, In X-start-menu-icons-1.0.4 the X-icon has been replaced by an icon of VIM. I can't reproduce this. With the last update I indeed added some icons

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog Makefile.in cygwin.din ...

2005-11-08 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-11-08 22:08:39 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog Makefile.in cygwin.din cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h Added files: cygwin : memmem.cc Log message:

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog

2005-11-08 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-11-08 22:08:59 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog Log message: fix entry Patches:

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler.cc

2005-11-08 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-11-08 23:25:55 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler.cc Log message: * fhandler_base.cc (fhandler_base::readv): Free buf, not a pointer into the middle of

qtparted unter Cygwin (font problem)

2005-11-08 Thread Sebastian Schuberth
Hi, I'm trying to run qtparted on a remote Gentoo Linux machine and forward X11 via SSH to my local Windows / Cygwin machine. It basically works, but in qtparted's GUI I only see squares instead of a nice font. I guess I'm missing a font in my local Cygwin X-server installation, but I

audit log\'s

2005-11-08 Thread degrem03
Hi, We want to know the audit logs with CYGWIN. We use the WIndows 2000 audit, but we need more information. In the sshd.log we can't see anything. What we must do? Thanks you in advanced, CLaudia -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Automatic (Silent) Installation with specific packages ?

2005-11-08 Thread Harakiri
Hello, is it possible to do a silent install of cygwin with some additional libs ? I would like to bundle cygwin with some already downloaded libs into another application and distribute it using a custom windows setup.exe Is it possible to use a command line installer where you specify a list

opendir,readdir

2005-11-08 Thread Fry, Chuck \(GE Trans\)
I'm new to Cygwin, and I'm trying to port some applications that run under HPUX 10.20. When recompiling under Cygwin one of the applications won't link because the linker can't resolve getdirentries which is a HPUX function. HP is obsolescing this function and recommends that you rewrite this

Re: Wikipedia info about cygwin

2005-11-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Chan Kar Heng wrote: This page should have all the authorative information that should be in that wiki page: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.about .. and especially this: http://cygwin.com/history.html Both the above word things in much better way in more proper perspectives, as well

Re: opendir,readdir

2005-11-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Fry, Chuck (GE Trans) on 11/8/2005 7:25 AM: I'm new to Cygwin, and I'm trying to port some applications that run under HPUX 10.20. When recompiling under Cygwin one of the applications won't link because the linker can't resolve

Re: Wikipedia info about cygwin

2005-11-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:30:20AM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chan Kar Heng wrote: This page should have all the authorative information that should be in that wiki page: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.about .. and especially this: http://cygwin.com/history.html Both the above word

Re: running gdb and attaching back: why doesn't this work?

2005-11-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:13:17PM -0800, mario rossi wrote: Hi, I've been trying to run gdb from a thread to get a stack trace of such thread...but it doesn't seem to work as expected under cygwin. The code I tried is attached below. The output I get from the code is: [Switching to thread

RE: Wikipedia info about cygwin

2005-11-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Christopher Faylor wrote on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:56 PM: [snip] Does someone want to make that an action item? And, anyone interested in moving the Cygwin history beyond the aggrandizing of Steve Chamberlain and the first few years of development? Why? Has there ever been a better

cygpath fails with snapshot 20051106

2005-11-08 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi, With cygwin1.ddl-1.5.18: $ cygpath -H /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings With cygwin1-20051106.dll: $ cygpath -H %SystemDrive%/Documents and Settings bye, R.M. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

nfs problems

2005-11-08 Thread Rodrigo Amestica
I have a w2k box running cygwin and in particular the nfs-server. Then I have serge debian box with the standard stuff. It seems that nfs-server is not able to actually make available stuff outside the cygwin root. Is this a hard fact or is there space for a misconfiguration? in the w2k box

Re: Wikipedia info about cygwin

2005-11-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:21:45PM +0100, J?rg Schaible wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:56 PM: [snip] Does someone want to make that an action item? And, anyone interested in moving the Cygwin history beyond the aggrandizing of Steve Chamberlain and the first

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: CMake-2.2.2-1

2005-11-08 Thread William A. Hoffman
CMake 2.2.2-1 is now available on Cygwin mirrors. There has been a new release of the official cmake (2.2.2-1). This is a major release from 2.0.6 to 2.2.2. Changes in CMake 2.2.2: - Fix a memory overrun in EXEC_PROGRAM on windows - Use GetFileAttributesEx for windows stat - Remove -fpic flags

Inetd running slow

2005-11-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
Hi all I've installed inetutils uw-imapd on cygwin, registered inet as a windows XP service (which starts OK) and I'm running uw-imapd through inetd. Inetd uw-imap are slow to respond when I connect to them locally. Info from event viewer, application log on starting inetd The description for

Re: Inetd running slow

2005-11-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Stephen Patterson wrote: Hi all I've installed inetutils uw-imapd on cygwin, registered inet as a windows XP service (which starts OK) and I'm running uw-imapd through inetd. Inetd uw-imap are slow to respond when I connect to them locally. Info from event viewer, application log on starting

RE: Inetd running slow

2005-11-08 Thread Dave Korn
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Stephen Patterson wrote: Hi all I've installed inetutils uw-imapd on cygwin, registered inet as a windows XP service (which starts OK) and I'm running uw-imapd through inetd. Inetd uw-imap are slow to respond when I connect to them locally. Does anyone know

php5 on cygwin

2005-11-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I had a brief communication with Tod on this mailing of his - http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg00077.html I managed to compile Apache 1.3.34 and php 5.1 RC4 on cygwin and Tod suggested that I post it to the list for reference. Here are the steps - 1. Get latest cygwin

Re: php5 on cygwin

2005-11-08 Thread Reini Urban
2005/11/8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./configure --with-apache=[PATH TO APACHE SOURCE DIRECTORY FROM POINT 1.] --with-pgsql I use PostgreSQL so I quote it literally. Perhaps it would work with another database too and perhaps it will work without. Note that I did a default compile

Re: Automatic (Silent) Installation with specific packages ?

2005-11-08 Thread Roy Wiseman
Hi, I would also love an answer to this question. Please upgrade setup.exe to allow this ? I would very very much like to be able to do this as having to manually select the packages every time is quite ime consuming when you install on multiple systems. Having a list that setup.exe looks at and

Re: Automatic (Silent) Installation with specific packages ?

2005-11-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Roy Wiseman wrote: --- Harakiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. is it possible to do a silent install of cygwin with some additional libs ? I would like to bundle cygwin with some already

RE: How to run cygwin sshd as a domain user?

2005-11-08 Thread Dave Korn
Xing Qiu wrote: No, I tried that, and it didn't work. As far as I understand, cygrunsrv is just a wrapper to run some daemon in the background. I simply can't start sshd with my own user. Below are the error messages: $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -d debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_4.1p1 Could not

Re: To continue file name

2005-11-08 Thread Alex Vinokur
Dave Korn wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex Vinokur wrote: Dave Korn wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex Vinokur wrote: Hi, For instance, directory contains files abcd, xyz, f123. For instance, I print 'a' and don't want to print 'bcd'. How can Cygwin continue

Re: Old versions of setup.exe

2005-11-08 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Scott Cegielski wrote: Are older versions of setup.exe kept around? Last time I installed cygwin, I also installed cygnome and it would crash setup using the current version at the time. I had to finad version 2.340.2.5 of

1.5.18 readv segmentation fault

2005-11-08 Thread Hirsch, Matthew
Hi list, I have an application that depends on readv. I updated cygwin in the last couple of months, and the program stopped working. I had previously found a problem with readv (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01626.html). The simple test case submitted with that previous inquiry

RE: Old versions of setup.exe

2005-11-08 Thread Dave Korn
Peter A. Castro wrote: Unfortunately, the Cygwin Time Machine hasn't been archiving setup.exe (at least not consistently). The top of /pub/cygwin/ always has the latest setup.exe (and setup.ini), but the Time Machine hasn't been archiving it because there's no automatic way to extract the

Re: php5 on cygwin

2005-11-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are the binary cygwin packages for postgresql, just in test. built yesterday (8.0.4 and 8.1.0) http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/postgresql/ In README is the binary layout. It should work OOTB. -- Reini Urban My experience is that the cygwin packaged PostgreSQL is placed

Re: futimes fails on file open for read

2005-11-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
a patch for this. It will show up in the next snapshot. All is well with 20051108, thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

unexpected failure of cygwin32_winpid_to_pid

2005-11-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Using 20051108, I just saw failures twice in tests of the perl binding for cygwin32_winpid_to_pid, but no failure on every try since. The test looks like: my $catpid = open my $cat, |cat or die Couldn't cat: $!; open my $ps, ps| or die Couldn't do ps: $!; my ($catwinpid) = map /^.\s+$catpid\s+\d

ln, ls or readline problem?

2005-11-08 Thread Carlo Florendo
Hello, In my home directory named /home/Carlo, I have a directory named foo and under foo is the directory bar: $ ls -ld foo drwxr-xr-x 3 Carlo None 0 Nov 9 08:46 foo $ ls -ld foo/bar drwxr-xr-x 2 Carlo None 0 Nov 9 08:46 foo/bar I also have a symbolic link to foo/bar on my home

Re: ln, ls or readline problem?

2005-11-08 Thread Eric Blake
$ ls -ld bar2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 Carlo None 7 Nov 9 08:47 bar2 - foo/bar Here's the problem: When I do a `cd bar2' and do an `ls -l ../', here's what I get: Known problem. Cygwin takes a shortcut and treats name/.. as though it were a single ., which unfortunately is counter to posix when

Re: ln, ls or readline problem?

2005-11-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Eric Blake wrote: $ ls -ld bar2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 Carlo None 7 Nov 9 08:47 bar2 - foo/bar Here's the problem: When I do a `cd bar2' and do an `ls -l ../', here's what I get: Known problem. Cygwin takes a shortcut and treats name/.. as though it were a single ., which unfortunately is counter

Re: ln, ls or readline problem?

2005-11-08 Thread Eric Blake
Known problem. Cygwin takes a shortcut and treats name/.. as though it were a single ., which unfortunately is counter to posix when name was a symlink. The problem is that patching cygwin is likely to slow down the common case, so the cygwin developers have chosen speed over

Re: Winzip Zip

2005-11-08 Thread nidhog
On 11/7/05, zzapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Everyone knows the very useful Winzip, however some pretty clever automatic stuff can be done using CygWins zip # zip a webroot but only html or php files zip.exe -r web.zip c:/intranet/web/ -i *.php *.htm* # zip a list of files where

Re: unexpected failure of cygwin32_winpid_to_pid

2005-11-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:17:41PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Using 20051108, I just saw failures twice in tests of the perl binding for cygwin32_winpid_to_pid, but no failure on every try since. The test looks like: my $catpid = open my $cat, |cat or die Couldn't cat: $!; open

Re: 1.5.18 readv segmentation fault

2005-11-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:20:19PM -0500, Hirsch, Matthew wrote: Hi list, I have an application that depends on readv. I updated cygwin in the last couple of months, and the program stopped working. I had previously found a problem with readv

Re: cygpath fails with snapshot 20051106

2005-11-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:22:04AM -0400, Rodrigo Medina wrote: Hi, With cygwin1.ddl-1.5.18: $ cygpath -H /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings With cygwin1-20051106.dll: $ cygpath -H %SystemDrive%/Documents and Settings This should be fixed in the latest snapshot. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

RE: Old versions of setup.exe

2005-11-08 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote: Peter A. Castro wrote: Unfortunately, the Cygwin Time Machine hasn't been archiving setup.exe (at least not consistently). The top of /pub/cygwin/ always has the latest setup.exe (and setup.ini), but the Time Machine hasn't been archiving it because

Re: Inetd running slow

2005-11-08 Thread Danilo Turina
I had a problem of slowness with inetd and telnetd: when connecting with telnet to my machine (even locally) it took much time to prompt for the user name. I discovered that it was due to the SYSTEM user missing a home in /etc/passwd, i.e. when I had the problem the line in /etc/passwd was:

Re: Winzip Zip

2005-11-08 Thread zzapper
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:02:12 +0800, wrote: On 11/7/05, zzapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Everyone knows the very useful Winzip, however some pretty clever automatic stuff can be done using CygWins zip # zip a webroot but only html or php files zip.exe -r web.zip c:/intranet/web/ -i

Updated: CMake-2.2.2-1

2005-11-08 Thread William A. Hoffman
CMake 2.2.2-1 is now available on Cygwin mirrors. There has been a new release of the official cmake (2.2.2-1). This is a major release from 2.0.6 to 2.2.2. Changes in CMake 2.2.2: - Fix a memory overrun in EXEC_PROGRAM on windows - Use GetFileAttributesEx for windows stat - Remove -fpic flags