Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS

2012-09-26 Thread Bry8 Star
Sorry, my 1st post got downloaded later on my side, so i re-posted (again, this), mistakenly. James, you are right, a combination approach would be better. But before doing any major changes (on setup.exe), for now, at-least, a sha1/md5 should be shown over http (better if over https), and if set

Re: ssh-host-config seg fault on Vista

2012-09-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 03:05:31AM +, Alex Brown wrote: >Observed the same ssh-keygen segfault in Win7, and am looking for a >workaround. >Is there a source tree online somewhere? Try a cygwin DLL snapshot: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Otherwise, yes, Cygwin is an open source project. You

Re: ssh-host-config seg fault on Vista

2012-09-26 Thread Alex Brown
Observed the same ssh-keygen segfault in Win7, and am looking for a workaround. Is there a source tree online somewhere? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

Re: OpenSSH, Windows 2000, cygrunsrv 1.0

2012-09-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/19/2012 7:56 AM, Andre Rothe wrote: Hi, I have to use an outdated system with Windows 2000 Server and an OpenSSH service on it. It uses OpenSSH 3.8.1p1-1 for Windows, which uses a Cygwin server v1.0 or something. The problem: I try to mount a windows network share on the Cygwin server to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: quilt 0.60-1 -- Tool to work with series of patches

2012-09-26 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/quilt License : GPL Tool to work with series of patches Program manages a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each of them makes. They are logically organized as a stack, and you can apply, un-apply, r

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: amanda-3.3.2-8

2012-09-26 Thread Mark O'Keefe
Version 3.3.2-8 of "amanda" has been uploaded. NEWS: == This is the latest stable release of amanda. The upstream documentation can be found in /usr/share/doc/amanda/. DESCRIPTION: AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the a

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:34:31PM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: >On 26/09/2012 2:32 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>> On 26/09/2012 2:17 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:13:20PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 26/09/2012 2:32 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 26/09/2012 2:17 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:13:20PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:03

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:29:00PM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: >On 26/09/2012 2:17 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:13:20PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:03:46AM -0700, Wynfield Henm

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 26/09/2012 2:17 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:13:20PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:03:46AM -0700, Wynfield

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 26/09/2012 2:17 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:13:20PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:03:46AM -0700, Wynfield Henman wrote: In my humble opinion cygwin should be open to improvement an

socket: Invalid argument

2012-09-26 Thread cygwin
I have just set up Cygwin on my Windows 7 account at work, where I do not have administrator rights. My internet connection is via an HTTP proxy, so I would like to use Corkscrew to set up an SSH tunnel to the outside world. However, so far I've had difficulty making any network connections from Cy

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:13:20PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:03:46AM -0700, Wynfield Henman wrote: >>> In my humble opinion cygwin should be open to improvement and, we >>>should keep cygwin's purpose as a bas

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:03:46AM -0700, Wynfield Henman wrote: >> In my humble opinion cygwin should be open to improvement and, we >>should keep cygwin's purpose as a base system, which is as full, and >>as easy, and as close to a *nix

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:03:46AM -0700, Wynfield Henman wrote: > In my humble opinion cygwin should be open to improvement and, we >should keep cygwin's purpose as a base system, which is as full, and >as easy, and as close to a *nix environment as possible. And the wonder of open source is that

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Fergus writes: > Another trick/ fix/ workaround would be to go into > /etc/setup/installed.db and edit it to show you've got texlive > texlive-20120628-1.tar.bz2 0 and maybe texlive-collection-basic > texlive-collection-basic-20120628-2.tar.bz2 0 (even though you > haven't). There may be others but

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Wynfield Henman
In my humble opinion cygwin should be open to improvement and, we should keep cygwin's purpose as a base system, which is as full, and as easy, and as close to a *nix environment as possible. On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote: . snipped > >> I don't agree. The solution sh

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rcs-5.8.1-1: The Revision Control System

2012-09-26 Thread Wagemans, Peter
Dear Dr. Zell, > [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rcs-5.8.1-1: The Revision Control System Do you perhaps know whether this version fixes the file corruption problem noticed earlier on this list for 5.8, or should we stay with 5.7 to avoid corrupting large RCS files? Short problem description (what I th

Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS

2012-09-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 04:57:24AM -0700, Bry8 Star wrote: >Hello, >Please include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest code of "setup.exe" file, on webpage >next to "setup.exe" download url-link. >so we can know for sure, if we have a correct file or not, and someone >in middle (MITM) has not changed it. There i

Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and use HTTPS

2012-09-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:42:57AM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: >tl;dr: publishing a checksum for setup.exe is a good idea, https makes >little or no sense in this setting, and cryptographic signatures for >packages would be nice to have but would burden volunteers while >providing incomplete prot

RE: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS

2012-09-26 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 11:57 > Subject: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS > > Hello, > Please include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest code of "setup.exe" file, on webpage > next to "setup.exe" download url-link. > so we can know for sure, if we h

Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and use HTTPS

2012-09-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
tl;dr: publishing a checksum for setup.exe is a good idea, https makes little or no sense in this setting, and cryptographic signatures for packages would be nice to have but would burden volunteers while providing incomplete protection. (response follows) On 26/09/2012 2:22 AM, Bry8 Star wro

RE: associating volume labels with drive letters

2012-09-26 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Mark O'Keefe > Hi, > > Here is a perl script which I believe should do the trick. > > It adds: (for example) > DRIVE="C:" > to the end of the blkid output where the drive letter matches the correct > drive location. > > Along the same lines I've also played around with a customised versio

include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS

2012-09-26 Thread Bry8 Star
Hello, Please include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest code of "setup.exe" file, on webpage next to "setup.exe" download url-link. so we can know for sure, if we have a correct file or not, and someone in middle (MITM) has not changed it. Windows users prefer to verify files rather with sha1/md5 etc, than usi

[RFE][PATCH] cygport: allow for subdirectory specification via CPAN_AUTHOR

2012-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Hi Yaakov, several Perl distributions have chosen to put the actual archives in a subdirectory (e.g. Inline::Files). So far I've dealt with those by editing SRC_URI after "inherit perl", but I'd like something more straigtforward. I propose that CPAN_AUTHOR should optionally include this additi

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Fergus
>> .. it's a pain to have to continually go in and select [skip] for each one and the select >> yes I don't want these, every time I want to update other packages. Another trick/ fix/ workaround would be to go into /etc/setup/installed.db and edit it to show you've got texlive texlive-20120628

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: > This dependency is created by cygport. It's of course up to the gnuplot > maintainer (Volker Zell) whether or not he wants to override it, but I > can explain the rationale. [...] Until someone ports zypper or aptitude to Cygwin which can deal with soft requir