Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.15.1-4

2014-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 07:14:42PM +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 21/07/2014 16:57, Matt D. wrote: to that should be up to date? most of the mirrors have a 24 hours cycle Actually, many mirrors update from sourceware.org every couple of hours. kernel.org is one example. cgf -- Unsubscribe

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: glib2.0-2.38.2-3

2014-07-23 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: * libglib2.0_0-2.38.2-3 * libglib2.0-devel-2.38.2-3 * libglib2.0-doc-2.38.2-3 GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gtk3-3.10.9-1

2014-07-23 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * libgtk3_0-3.10.9-1 * libgtk3-devel-3.10.9-1 * libgtk3-doc-3.10.9-1 * libgailutil3_0-3.10.9-1 * libgailutil3-devel-3.10.9-1 * libgailutil3-doc-3.10.9-1 * girepository-Gtk3.0-3.10.9-1 * gtk3-demo-3.10.9-1 *

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mesa-10.2.4-1, mesa-demos-8.2.0-1

2014-07-23 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * dri-drivers-10.2.4-1 * libEGL1-10.2.4-1 * libEGL-devel-10.2.4-1 * libGL1-10.2.4-1 * libGL-devel-10.2.4-1 * libGLESv1_CM1-10.2.4-1 * libGLESv1_CM-devel-10.2.4-1 * libGLESv2_2-10.2.4-1 * libGLESv2-devel-10.2.4-1 *

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python-pyqt4, qscintilla2

2014-07-23 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated for both arches: * libqscintilla2_11-2.8.1-1 * libqscintilla2-common-2.8.1-1 * libqscintilla2-devel-2.8.1-1 * python-pyqt4-4.10.4-1 * python-pyqt4-qsci-2.8.1-1 * python-sip-4.15.5-1 * python3-pyqt4-4.10.4-1 * python3-pyqt4-qsci-2.8.1-1 *

The eternal uid issue

2014-07-23 Thread D. Boland
Hi Cygwin lovers, After some weeks of serious compiling, researching, understanding, fixing, testing and compiling again, I managed to get the Sendmail source code compiled and working. But I had to compromise in some critical areas. One of them is the uid issue. * sendmail, procmail,

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-23 Thread Linda Walsh
D. Boland wrote: But I had to compromise in some critical areas. One of them is the uid issue. * sendmail, procmail, mail.local assume that the id of the privileged user is '0'. Isn't it about time to make this our First Directive also? I thought sendmail used capabilities? Isn't it

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-23 Thread D. Boland
Linda Walsh wrote: D. Boland wrote: But I had to compromise in some critical areas. One of them is the uid issue. * sendmail, procmail, mail.local assume that the id of the privileged user is '0'. Isn't it about time to make this our First Directive also? I thought sendmail

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 23 10:06, D. Boland wrote: Hi Cygwin lovers, After some weeks of serious compiling, researching, understanding, fixing, testing and compiling again, I managed to get the Sendmail source code compiled and working. But I had to compromise in some critical areas. One of them is the

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-23 Thread D. Boland
Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Isn't it about time to make this our First Directive also? Not in relation to the uid. In contrast to Linux we don't have the one single root user. We have potentially endless numbers of them, and one of them, not necessarily SYSTEM, is used to run

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: llvm/clang-3.4.2-1

2014-07-23 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * llvm-3.4.2-1 * llvm-doc-3.4.2-1 * libllvm3.4-3.4.2-1 * libllvm-devel-3.4.2-1 * libllvm-devel-static-3.4.2-1 * clang-3.4.2-1 * clang-analyzer-3.4.2-1 * libclang-3.4.2-1 * libclang-devel-3.4.2-1 * libclang-devel-static-3.4.2-1 *

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 07/23/2014 07:35 AM, D. Boland wrote: snip It actually is my solution to running Sendmail: create the Sendmail user, called 'smmsp' and make it an Administrator, so it can impersonate users on my system. But I don't like my solution, because this would mean I have to create an admin-user

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 23 13:35, D. Boland wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not in relation to the uid. In contrast to Linux we don't have the one single root user. We have potentially endless numbers of them, and one of them, not necessarily SYSTEM, is used to run the service. Keep in mind that there

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, D. Boland! Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Isn't it about time to make this our First Directive also? Not in relation to the uid. In contrast to Linux we don't have the one single root user. We have potentially endless numbers of them, and one of them, not necessarily

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 08:08:07PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, D. Boland! Cygwin security will be done for in the long run. Why not make the leap and show MS admins/developers how it should be done? You really think they are all idiots?... Like, really? Sure, why not. MS

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: llvm/clang-3.4.2-1

2014-07-23 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Sorry, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: This is an update to the latest upstream release, and the first release for x86_64. PLEASE NOTE that clang will NOT work as a native code compiler for x86_64 at this time, but should still work as a code analyzer and LLVM bytecode compiler; PTC. That explains

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: llvm/clang-3.4.2-1

2014-07-23 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 18:37 +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: This is an update to the latest upstream release, and the first release for x86_64. PLEASE NOTE that clang will NOT work as a native code compiler for x86_64 at this time, but should still work as a code

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: llvm/clang-3.4.2-1

2014-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 23 18:37, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Sorry, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: This is an update to the latest upstream release, and the first release for x86_64. PLEASE NOTE that clang will NOT work as a native code compiler for x86_64 at this time, but should still work as a code analyzer and

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: llvm/clang-3.4.2-1

2014-07-23 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: The default for native Windows applications is the small code model [...] Therefore my collegue Kai Tietz provided GCC with implementations of a medium and large code model Gulp! Seems to re-read the Borland C++/TPascal manuals at the beginning of the 1990s... only the

Updated: llvm/clang-3.4.2-1

2014-07-23 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * llvm-3.4.2-1 * llvm-doc-3.4.2-1 * libllvm3.4-3.4.2-1 * libllvm-devel-3.4.2-1 * libllvm-devel-static-3.4.2-1 * clang-3.4.2-1 * clang-analyzer-3.4.2-1 * libclang-3.4.2-1 * libclang-devel-3.4.2-1 * libclang-devel-static-3.4.2-1 *