David Stacey writes:
Back in April, Reini expressed a desire to keep perl_vendor, claiming
that it is the easiest solution for both user and maintainer [1].
Well, I have been keeping a large local installation of Perl modules and
without perl_vendor dissolved I can't maintain that. Some of the
Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
Thanks for the reminder. Where did we leave off wrt breaking out
perl_vendor?
I've offered a practical way to do this for everyone to test on a 32bit
install. If that works and is agreeable, I've also offered to ITA/ITP
the packages in question plus any other Perl
Hi group,
This is not an existing package, but a spin-off project from porting Sendmail
and
Procmail to Cygwin. These programs, as you may or may not know, rely heavily on
the
setuid mechanism (impersonating as another user).
More formally, this is called 'running as an unprivileged user' in
Hi Corinna,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
[...]
I forgot the prep stage.
I re-made the binary package and its source package with cygport (nice
program btw):
http://cygwin.boland.nl/x86/release/procmail/
I had to cheat a little (see 'src_compile' in .cygport file) because
the source
Hi group,
This is not an existing package, but a spin-off project from porting Sendmail
and
Procmail to Cygwin. These programs, as you may or may not know, rely heavily on
the
setuid mechanism (impersonating as another user).
More formally, this is called 'running as an unprivileged user' in
On Aug 16 10:07, D. Boland wrote:
Hi Corinna,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
[...]
I forgot the prep stage.
I re-made the binary package and its source package with cygport (nice
program btw):
http://cygwin.boland.nl/x86/release/procmail/
I had to cheat a little (see
Hello, Marco.
Friday, August 15, 2014, 23:44:22 you wrote:
Thank you, i'll know that.
By the way, package list at https://cygwin.com/packages/ also doesn't
contain the new entry.
I noticed, eventually Yaakov is reshuffling the scripts
Ok, good.
I have posted an announcement about
On Aug 16 10:05, D. Boland wrote:
Hi group,
This is not an existing package, but a spin-off project from porting
Sendmail and Procmail to Cygwin. These programs, as you may or may not
know, rely heavily on the setuid mechanism (impersonating as another
user). More formally, this is called
On Aug 16 10:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 16 10:07, D. Boland wrote:
Hi Corinna,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
[...]
I forgot the prep stage.
I re-made the binary package and its source package with cygport (nice
program btw):
In Windows, it is the 'SYSTEM' user which starts up most services, thus in
effect
acting as the Unix 'root' user. The difference is that SYSTEM has uid '18',
while
root has uid '0' in Unix.
No, there are much larger differences between a capability based system
and this. With
On 16/08/2014 11:28, Achim Gratz wrote:
http://cygwin.boland.nl/x86/release/libsuexec/
This library doesn't do anything su-like or exec, so I think it is misnamed.
All GTG's are welcome...
suexec is the upstream name.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/suexec.html
Marco
Hi Achim,
Achim Gratz wrote:
In Windows, it is the 'SYSTEM' user which starts up most services, thus in
effect
acting as the Unix 'root' user. The difference is that SYSTEM has uid '18',
while
root has uid '0' in Unix.
No, there are much larger differences between a capability
D. Boland writes:
At the very least you're missing a proper license. But for the moment I
think you'd better patch that into sendmail and procmail gnulib-style.
Proper license? Please explain.
It appears you want to license under some version of the GPL. No
license document is actually
Marco Atzeri writes:
suexec is the upstream name.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/suexec.html
I fail to see the relation, APache suexec seems to do quite different
things.
Regards,
Achim.
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On Aug 16 11:28, Achim Gratz wrote:
In Windows, it is the 'SYSTEM' user which starts up most services, thus in
effect
acting as the Unix 'root' user. The difference is that SYSTEM has uid '18',
while
root has uid '0' in Unix.
No, there are much larger differences between a
Corinna Vinschen writes:
So if I'm a member of the administrators group those programs will use
administrative rights while delivering mail to my inbox even though they
don't need to? That doesn't sound desirable to me in any way.
No, they won't. The lib just converts the uid of the current
Hi Corinna,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
procmail works from sendmail in a multi-user scenario on Fedora without
this tool. Why does this solution not work for Cygwin?
Disregard this question. The expression multi-root totally puzzeled
me. Let's follow up with the libsuexec ITP.
Kuhl!! I
On Aug 16 12:50, Achim Gratz wrote:
Corinna Vinschen writes:
So if I'm a member of the administrators group those programs will use
administrative rights while delivering mail to my inbox even though they
don't need to? That doesn't sound desirable to me in any way.
No, they won't.
Am 15.08.2014 19:21, schrieb Yaakov Selkowitz:
On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 10:59 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 12 09:45, Thomas Wolff wrote:
While revising the upload structure, please consider folding out the source
package (e.g. into no-arch/ or src/) because it's not a convincing burden
On Aug 16 13:09, D. Boland wrote:
Hi Corinna,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
procmail works from sendmail in a multi-user scenario on Fedora without
this tool. Why does this solution not work for Cygwin?
Disregard this question. The expression multi-root totally puzzeled
me. Let's
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution:
*** xorg-server-*1.16.0-1
These packages contain XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers.
This is the first release of the xserver 1.16 series. It is currently
available as a test release, and will be made stable in
on
$ uname -svr
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:06
$ mandb -c
Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man...
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man1'. Wait...mandb:
[cut]
Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man3'. Wait...mandb:
[cut]
mandb: warning:
Michael DePaulo writes:
Consider the example of where I work. After I install the corporate IT
department's SCCM package/script for Cygwin (1.7.16, last updated
August 2012)
That is an entirely different issue and one your IT will have to
resolve. Given how these departments operate, don't
On 16/08/2014 09:17, Achim Gratz wrote:
Marco Atzeri writes:
[…]
anyone seeing the same ?
As reported previously, that happens on some machines and the inclusion
of the debug switch (mandb -dc) might well work around it.
Regards,
Achim.
thanks Achim,
I thought infancy problem were gone
Marco Atzeri writes:
[…]
anyone seeing the same ?
As reported previously, that happens on some machines and the inclusion
of the debug switch (mandb -dc) might well work around it.
Regards,
Achim.
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Waldorf MIDI
On 05/08/2014 22:33, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE:
===
New upstream release.
* Bugfix: mac2unix conversion produced corrupted output
from UTF-16 input file.
* New options -b (keep BOM) and -r (remove BOM).
* New translation of the UI
New versions of
octave-bim-1.1.4-1
octave-control-2.6.5-1
octave-dataframe-1.0.0-1
octave-divand-1.1.2-1
octave-fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.4.5-1
octave-image-2.2.1-1
octave-io-2.2.3-1
octave-instrument-control-0.2.0-2
octave-miscellaneous-1.2.1-1
octave-msh-1.0.10-1
Version 2.19_20140211-1 of onc-rpc-devel has been uploaded.
This package is necessary for building applications using Sun (now
ONC) RPC protocol. It contains headers for some standard RPC services
(like NFS) and rpcgen utility needed to generate such headers for
custom services, thus
Folks,
I'm the main developer of an open source project
http://www.si6networks.com/tools/ipv6toolkit, and was meaning to port
our project to Windows.
My idea was to use cygwin, since I'm not much of a Windows programmer.
Is there any way to produce and ship an exe with the relevant libraries?
Version mc-4.8.12-2 of Midnight Commander
has been uploaded for cygwin
CHANGES
This is a Cygwin bugfix release to solve an incorrect
coding of man pages that make them unusable with current
man-db
https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3239
No other change from previous 4.8.12-1 version.
Fernando Gont writes:
My idea was to use cygwin, since I'm not much of a Windows programmer.
Is there any way to produce and ship an exe with the relevant libraries?
If I understand correctly what you're trying to do, you need to obtain a
commercial license from RedHat for doing so. Otherwise,
On Aug 14 21:52, Fernando Gont wrote:
Folks,
I'm the main developer of an open source project
http://www.si6networks.com/tools/ipv6toolkit, and was meaning to port
our project to Windows.
My idea was to use cygwin, since I'm not much of a Windows programmer.
Is there any way to produce
On Aug 16 12:29, Achim Gratz wrote:
Fernando Gont writes:
My idea was to use cygwin, since I'm not much of a Windows programmer.
Is there any way to produce and ship an exe with the relevant libraries?
If I understand correctly what you're trying to do, you need to obtain a
commercial
Hello,
I though that Cygwin did not support shared libraries, I read it somewhere in
the past, but now I am installing GEOS 3.4.2 (http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/) and
I noticed this after the configure (it's just part of the long list of
messages):
checking whether the gcc linker
On 16/08/2014 13:12, Gery . wrote:
Hello,
I though that Cygwin did not support shared libraries, I read it somewhere in
the past, but now I am installing GEOS 3.4.2 (http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/) and
I noticed this after the configure (it's just part of the long list of
messages):
[cut]
On 16/08/2014 09:40, Marco Atzeri wrote:
On 16/08/2014 09:17, Achim Gratz wrote:
Marco Atzeri writes:
[…]
anyone seeing the same ?
As reported previously, that happens on some machines and the inclusion
of the debug switch (mandb -dc) might well work around it.
Regards,
Achim.
thanks
Hi, Corinna,
Thanks so much for your prompt response! Comments in-line...
On 08/16/2014 06:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 14 21:52, Fernando Gont wrote:
Folks,
I'm the main developer of an open source project
http://www.si6networks.com/tools/ipv6toolkit, and was meaning
to port
On 08/16/2014 06:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 16 12:29, Achim Gratz wrote:
Fernando Gont writes:
My idea was to use cygwin, since I'm not much of a Windows programmer.
Is there any way to produce and ship an exe with the relevant libraries?
If I understand correctly what you're
On 16/08/2014 10:08, Marco Atzeri wrote:
On 05/08/2014 22:33, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE:
===
New upstream release.
* Bugfix: mac2unix conversion produced corrupted output
from UTF-16 input file.
* New options -b (keep BOM) and -r
On 16/08/2014 15:26, Marco Atzeri wrote:
3rd and final (I hope),
the reason way only u2d man page has problem
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/u2d.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so'
request
it is because it has a double redirection while
all the other pages have a single .so redirection
Hi,
just as by product of looking why mc had a unusable man page,
and why u2d was making me crazy...
these are the other broken pages on my system, that look as
upstream bugs.
$ grep ROFF mandb.log
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/bind9-config.1.gz: bad symlink or
ROFF `.so' request
mandb:
Hello,
I'm trying to install postgis 2.2.0dev
(http://postgis.net/stuff/postgis-2.2.0dev.tar.gz), but I got an error saying:
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.8.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot
find -lpostgres
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
I've encountered a problem where bash will use lseek to seek backwards
on a serial device. This results in data being lost when large chuncks
of data are being read at once. This doesn't happen when reading from
a pipe, so it appears that bash is unable to detect that serial devices
are
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Fernando Gont fg...@si6networks.com wrote:
On 08/16/2014 06:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 16 12:29, Achim Gratz wrote:
Fernando Gont writes:
My idea was to use cygwin, since I'm not much of a Windows programmer.
Is there any way to produce and ship an
On 16/08/2014 20:39, Gery . wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to install postgis 2.2.0dev
(http://postgis.net/stuff/postgis-2.2.0dev.tar.gz), but I got an error saying:
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.8.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot
find -lpostgres
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit
Thanks again Regina, good news, I recently successfully installed the 2.1.4dev
version in my cygwin. The -lpostgres problem was solved by Marco Atzeri, here
it's his message, that *.a file did the trick:
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00321.html.
So, you asked why, well, it's simply
Thanks a lot Marco for this email and the one I sent before about the shared
libraries. I didn't answer before because I was inscribed as digest, so I just
dropped that recently and subscribed again.
That *.a file definitely did the trick, many thanks for that. I just explained
what I did in
I am trying to run MPI programs under Cygwin64 version 1.15.1-4 with OpenMPI
version 1.7.5-1. The computer is an i7 running Windows 8.0. I do not have any
issues compiling programs, but I get the following errors trying to run
hello_c.exe
I recently installed cygwin64 in my windows 8.1 (like 3 days ago) and tried a
program that has also worked in Linux and cygwin32, but it didn't work
properly. So, I uninstalled the 64 and installed the 32, and it worked
flawlessly. I have no idea why, but you could try the 32-bit instead.
HTH,
On Sat, 2014-08-16 at 09:17 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
Marco Atzeri writes:
[…]
anyone seeing the same ?
This should not happen with cygwin-1.7.31-3.
As reported previously, that happens on some machines and the inclusion
of the debug switch (mandb -dc) might well work around it.
As I
On 17/08/2014 02:22, Gery . wrote:
I recently installed cygwin64 in my windows 8.1 (like 3 days ago) and tried a
program that has also worked in Linux and cygwin32, but it didn't work
properly. So, I uninstalled the 64 and installed the 32, and it worked
flawlessly. I have no idea why, but
On 17/08/2014 05:32, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
On Sat, 2014-08-16 at 09:17 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
Marco Atzeri writes:
[…]
anyone seeing the same ?
This should not happen with cygwin-1.7.31-3.
I see it on 1.7.32-1
As reported previously, that happens on some machines and the inclusion
On 16/08/2014 23:02, Gery . wrote:
Thanks a lot Marco for this email and the one I sent before about the shared
libraries. I didn't answer before because I was inscribed as digest, so I just
dropped that recently and subscribed again.
That *.a file definitely did the trick, many thanks for
New versions of
octave-bim-1.1.4-1
octave-control-2.6.5-1
octave-dataframe-1.0.0-1
octave-divand-1.1.2-1
octave-fuzzy-logic-toolkit-0.4.5-1
octave-image-2.2.1-1
octave-io-2.2.3-1
octave-instrument-control-0.2.0-2
octave-miscellaneous-1.2.1-1
octave-msh-1.0.10-1
Version 2.19_20140211-1 of onc-rpc-devel has been uploaded.
This package is necessary for building applications using Sun (now
ONC) RPC protocol. It contains headers for some standard RPC services
(like NFS) and rpcgen utility needed to generate such headers for
custom services, thus
Version mc-4.8.12-2 of Midnight Commander
has been uploaded for cygwin
CHANGES
This is a Cygwin bugfix release to solve an incorrect
coding of man pages that make them unusable with current
man-db
https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3239
No other change from previous 4.8.12-1 version.
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