Re: cygport: patches welcome?

2007-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 13 13:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 13 05:58, Andrew Schulman wrote: I think that this won't be necessary if we use Dave's suggestion to remove config files in preremove scripts if they haven't changed. Then all the postinstall script has to do is if [ -f /etc/file ] ;

Re: [ITP] perl-5.8.8-2

2007-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 17:22, Reini Urban wrote: The -2 package below has no additional 5.8.8 script suffix anymore, just for the two binaries. I also add some more in-between patches, esp. an installperl bugfix for Gerrit's CYG04major.version.cygwin.sh.patch

Re: cygport: patches welcome?

2007-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:21:54AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 13 13:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 13 05:58, Andrew Schulman wrote: I think that this won't be necessary if we use Dave's suggestion to remove config files in preremove scripts if they haven't changed. Then all

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygheap.h grp.cc s ...

2007-07-16 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-07-16 20:01:15 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygheap.h grp.cc security.cc security.h syscalls.cc uinfo.cc Log message: * cygheap.h

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clamav-0.91-1

2007-07-16 Thread Reini Urban
The cygwin clamav packages (Clam AntiVirus - GPL anti-virus toolkit) has been updated to 0.91-1. This adds the previous experimental Phishing code (enabled in cygwin since 0.90-1) as default. About == Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clamav-0.91-1

2007-07-16 Thread wynfield
Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cygwin clamav packages (Clam AntiVirus - GPL anti-virus toolkit) has been updated to 0.91-1. This adds the previous experimental Phishing code (enabled in cygwin since 0.90-1) as default. Reini, thank you for your efforts. I downloaded and it runs

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-16 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On 7/15/07, Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 July 2007 19:12, Bernd Bartmann wrote: Now comes the weird part. I created a new file hello.c in my home dir with vim. ls -al shows that the file exists, but more hello.c gives no output at all. I just get a new shell prompt. The same

RE: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 July 2007 14:53, Bernd Bartmann wrote: On 7/15/07, Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bernd, please abide by the list etiquette of not quoting people's email addresses in the raw, as they end up on the web archive and get harvested by spammers. (See

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-16 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On 7/16/07, Dave Korn wrote: Bernd, please abide by the list etiquette of not quoting people's email addresses in the raw, as they end up on the web archive and get harvested by spammers. (See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR for justification). Dave, thanks for the hint. I'll try

grep -f problem

2007-07-16 Thread Mårten Gustafsson
Hi I have a problem with grep -f. Here is my example script: #!sh echo -e calvin\nhobbes expressions.txt echo -e calvin chases\nhis favourite imaginary friend\nhobbes text.txt grep -f expressions.txt text.txt The output is: $ grepbug.sh hobbes The expected output:

RE: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

2007-07-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 July 2007 15:12, Bernd Bartmann wrote: On 7/16/07, Dave Korn wrote: Bernd, please abide by the list etiquette of not quoting people's email addresses in the raw, as they end up on the web archive and get harvested by spammers. (See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR for

RE: grep -f problem

2007-07-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 July 2007 15:12, Mårten Gustafsson wrote: Hi I have a problem with grep -f. Here is my example script: #!sh echo -e calvin\nhobbes expressions.txt echo -e calvin chases\nhis favourite imaginary friend\nhobbes text.txt grep -f expressions.txt text.txt The output is: $

Re: grep -f problem

2007-07-16 Thread Yitzchok Good
On CygWin: $ echo -e calvin\nhobbesa $ echo -e calvin chased\nblah blah\nhobbesb $ grep -f a b calvin chased hobbes #!sh echo -e calvin\nhobbes expressions.txt echo -e calvin chases\nhis favourite imaginary friend\nhobbes text.txt grep -f expressions.txt text.txt $ ./a.sh calvin chases

hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Louis Kruger
I performed a cygwin update today, and was confronted with an MD5 failure on one of the packages. The package was vim-7.1-1.tar.bz2 downloaded from mirrors.dotsrc.org As the package installed, I saw some strange behavior, I'm worried it might have been some kind of trojan. I saved the

Re: grep -f problem

2007-07-16 Thread Mårten Gustafsson
Thanks for all replies. Now I have installed cygwin in unix mode and converted all my script files by running dos2unix *.sh. Everything works much better, thanks for all the help. I got the grep -f problem when running it in dos mode. I actually tried installing in unix mode but got lots of :

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Louis Kruger wrote: I also have a complaint: the dialog that notifies the user of the failed MD5 is not well designed. The dialog asks Do you want to skip the package? and has a yes and no button. I read it quickly and pressed no before thinking

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Brian Kelly
This would be more helpful: Do you want to not skip the package (No/Yes/Maybe)? The Maybe can then consult a random number routine to decide whether or not to do the operation. -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 16, 2007 11:52 AM To:

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Louis Kruger
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Louis Kruger wrote: I also have a complaint: the dialog that notifies the user of the failed MD5 is not well designed. The dialog asks Do you want to skip the package? and has a yes and no button. I read it quickly and pressed no before

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Louis Kruger (Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:17:43 -0500) On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Louis Kruger wrote: I also have a complaint: the dialog that notifies the user of the failed MD5 is not well designed. The dialog asks Do you want to skip the package? and has a yes and no

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread William Sutton
I remember an extensive discussion about the purpose MD5 sums serve for the cygwin installer[1] some time ago. My understanding (synopsis) of the thread (before I gave up reading it in disgust somewhere around Christopher Faylor's suggestion that the subject be dropped :} ) was that md5sum is

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Louis Kruger
I do think that instead of simply aborting the install with a message that the server was compromised (was it? or is something else going on?), that a more useful option would be to allow the user to select a different mirror and continue the process. Sure. I just wanted to make the

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RE: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Dave Korn
DANGER: Extreme sarcasm ahead. May also be withering. No warranty, no refunds. On 16 July 2007 16:31, Chicken Licken ^W^W Louis Kruger wrote: As the package installed, I saw some strange behavior, I'm worried it might have been some kind of trojan. Are you able to actually describe

When is next cygwin going to be released

2007-07-16 Thread Robert Mithund
Hi, I'm new to cygwin, and I have tried the current cygwin, 1.5.24. It's good and everything, but I saw that there was work on the next version of cygwin. Do you know when this will be done? Also will that one support vista? We have a lot of vista machines and it would be nice to use cygwin

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:59:12AM -0400, Brian Kelly wrote: This would be more helpful: Do you want to not skip the package (No/Yes/Maybe)? The Maybe can then consult a random number routine to decide whether or not to do the operation. Good point. I obviously stick at this UI stuff. cgf

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 02:38:17PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:59:12AM -0400, Brian Kelly wrote: This would be more helpful: Do you want to not skip the package (No/Yes/Maybe)? The Maybe can then consult a random number routine to decide whether or not to do the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clamav-0.91-1

2007-07-16 Thread Reini Urban
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cygwin clamav packages (Clam AntiVirus - GPL anti-virus toolkit) has been updated to 0.91-1. This adds the previous experimental Phishing code (enabled in cygwin since 0.90-1) as default. Reini, thank you for your efforts.

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Brian Kelly wrote: -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 16, 2007 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Subject: Re: hacked package on server On

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Louis Kruger wrote: As the package installed, I saw some strange behavior, I'm worried it might have been some kind of trojan. Are you able to actually describe strange behaviour It crashed the setup program, which seemed to indicate it was installing strangely

Re: When is next cygwin going to be released

2007-07-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Robert Mithund wrote: Hi, I'm new to cygwin, and I have tried the current cygwin, 1.5.24. It's good and everything, but I saw that there was work on the next version of cygwin. Do you know when this will be done? There is nothing firm. Watch the list. Also will that one support vista?

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On 7/16/07, Igor Peshansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Brian Kelly wrote: -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 16, 2007 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR.

Re: Latest snapshot revamps pipe/fifo handling

2007-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 9 07:52, Karl M wrote: Hi All... From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Latest snapshot revamps pipe/fifo handling Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:55:47 -0400 I've checked in a fairly major change to cygwin today. [...] I tried out the July 8, 2007 snapshot cygwin1.dll and had the

Re: cygwin on XP home edition (Please help i cant get further with this)

2007-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 14:11, Hennie wrote: Is nobody using XP home edition in combination with cygwin? Not voluntarily, no. Then throw it out of the group users. you can do this in a windows cmd box with. net localgroup users USERNAME /DEL And after that do a mkpassword and mkgroup in cygwin

Re: Latest snapshot revamps pipe/fifo handling

2007-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:12:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 9 07:52, Karl M wrote: Hi All... From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Latest snapshot revamps pipe/fifo handling Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:55:47 -0400 I've checked in a fairly major change to cygwin today. [...] I

RE: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:44:51PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: Yes, everyone now has been quite hilarious on this part of the matter, but I think it's time to get past the arrogance and, god forbid, consider that a user's reported problem, oh my god, might actually be

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:47:50AM +0200, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: Or something like that. Then its two clicks or several keystrokes before one can continue. If you want to help, then dig up multiple googled cases of previous confusion. Then we can quibble about wording. cgf -- Unsubscribe

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Pedro Alves
Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: Well in my opinion It could even be better to have an unchecked checkbox like: Wrong MD5 sum detected. This package look broken. Try another mirror. ( ) Yes I Really want to install this even if it looks broken. OK Or something like that. Then its two clicks or

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:20:19AM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: The second best, and quickest, would be for a patch to show up implementing Thorsten's suggestion that cfg pointed out. Until someone steps up to do the work, this discussion is just going to fade out and die. Urp. How could I have

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Pedro Alves wrote: Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: Well in my opinion It could even be better to have an unchecked checkbox like: Wrong MD5 sum detected. This package look broken. Try another mirror. ( ) Yes I Really want to install this even if it looks broken.

RE: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
From: Brian Mathis [snip] Yes, everyone now has been quite hilarious on this part of the matter, but I think it's time to get past the arrogance and, god forbid, consider that a user's reported problem, oh my god, might actually be a problem! snort! Heheheh! He thinks he's on

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Carlo Florendo
Brian Mathis wrote: In this case, a user running an installer is in the frame of mind of *installing* things, not *skipping* things. Perhaps this is in your case, certainly not everyone in this mailing list. So when they are asked a question, they should be asked questions about

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Carlo Florendo
Louis Kruger wrote: As the package installed, I saw some strange behavior, I'm worried it might have been some kind of trojan. Are you able to actually describe strange behaviour It crashed the setup program, which seemed to indicate it was installing strangely named files. It also

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Carlo Florendo wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: The OP said: Do you want to skip the package? and has a yes and no button. I read it quickly and pressed no before thinking about it ^^ So you see, it's a problem of thought. The UI message *is*

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Carlo Florendo
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Carlo Florendo wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: The OP said: Do you want to skip the package? and has a yes and no button. I read it quickly and pressed no before thinking about it ^^ So you see, it's a problem of

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Pedro Alves
Erich Dollansky wrote: Carlo Florendo wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: The OP said: Do you want to skip the package? and has a yes and no button. I read it quickly and pressed no before thinking about it ^^ So you see, it's a problem of thought.

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Carlo Florendo
Pedro Alves wrote: Perhaps the screen should flash, and a loud beep should sound every time a MessageBox not related to install to package wants to show up. Then wait 3 seconds, show a warning, going out of install mode MessageBox, sleep a bit more, and only then show the skip message box.

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Pedro Alves wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Carlo Florendo wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: The OP said: Do you want to skip the package? and has a yes and no button. I read it quickly and pressed no before thinking about it ^^ So you see,

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Pedro Alves wrote: The switch from: do you want to format your drive?: +-+ +-+ + yes + + no + +-+ +-+ to: do you want to format your drive?: ++ +-+ + format + + cancel + ++ +-+ ... Makes it much easier to understand what the

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread Pedro Alves
Carlo Florendo wrote: The switch from: do you want to format your drive?: +-+ +-+ + yes + + no + +-+ +-+ to: do you want to format your drive?: ++ +-+ + format + + cancel + ++ +-+ ... Makes it much easier to understand what the

Doc change request

2007-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
Could I ask someone to do a search and replace on the docs and change all occurrences of /usr/man and /usr/doc to /usr/share/man and /usr/share/doc? Brian, do you have time to do this? I think you touched the documentation list so you're it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Doc change request

2007-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:03:09AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Could I ask someone to do a search and replace on the docs and change all occurrences of /usr/man and /usr/doc to /usr/share/man and /usr/share/doc? Brian, do you have time to do this? I think you touched the documentation list

Updated: clamav-0.91-1

2007-07-16 Thread Reini Urban
The cygwin clamav packages (Clam AntiVirus - GPL anti-virus toolkit) has been updated to 0.91-1. This adds the previous experimental Phishing code (enabled in cygwin since 0.90-1) as default. About == Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is