Re: setup.exe sucks

2005-01-12 Thread Dario Alcocer
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm not as concerned about the package management as I am about the UI, actually. If we don't have a good UI for initial install, then the initial user experience is still going to be painful. You may want to take a look at my pre-release RPM distribution I did back in

Maintainers and cygwin-apps subscriptions

2004-10-29 Thread Dario Alcocer
GMANE instead of e-mail to do so. Thoughts? -- Dario Alcocer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] maintainer, rpm ghostscript

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Dario Alcocer
Peter Seebach wrote: I know this is a pseudo-FAQ, but I haven't been able to find a clear enough answer in the archives. 1. Is it not the case that POSIX provides a specification for the getopts builtin? 2. Doesn't ash, as originally written, implement getopts? I'm trying to figure out why this

Re: install native/x11 ghostscript

2003-12-12 Thread Dario Alcocer
to ensure exclusive installation of such packages. This is a *very* good question; unfortunately my knowledge of setup.exe's inner workings is very limited. Hopefully someone else (cgf, Chuck, Nicholas, ?) might be able to answer this one. -- Dario Alcocer Cygwin ghostscript maintainer

Re: new package proposal : CLISP

2003-09-13 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:46:08PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: My list of no-README packages: [snip] ghostscript-base Actually, this package does in fact contain a README: usr/doc/Cygwin/ghostscript-7.05.README. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL

Re: Removing old source packages

2003-06-06 Thread Dario Alcocer
for rpm as a whole, or one subdir for each package it manages? If you have the rpm-devel package installed, leave /usr/src/rpm alone. RPM uses this directory to build packages. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com

Re: PATCH: generic-build-script

2003-05-31 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:39:12AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Fine by me. How do these changes get checked into CVS? -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com

RPM support (was Re: qmail port successfull)

2003-05-30 Thread Dario Alcocer
-rpm. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

Re: problem suspending man bash (intermittent)

2003-05-30 Thread Dario Alcocer
didn't try CONT first, just KILL. So, it would appear that one cannot suspend pipelines that have pending input waiting. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: problem suspending man bash (intermittent)

2003-05-29 Thread Dario Alcocer
be interesting to see if you can reproduce this. Who knows, it might turn out to be a bash bug. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

Re: problem suspending man bash (intermittent)

2003-05-29 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 05:04:26AM -0700, Dario Alcocer wrote: I tried reproducing this, but I don't get the same exact results. For me, it takes 7 or 8 tries, and all I get is a missing '[1]+ Stopped' message from bash; the next keystrokes still go to bash, though. The problem seems to go

Re: gcc-2 ..../bin/as.exe: Permission denied

2003-01-19 Thread Dario Alcocer
attribute is getting wiped out after installation. I'll look into it some more and post anything I find. [1] - I'm using gcc-3, and Brendan is using gcc-2, but I guess the problem is independent of gcc version. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: gcc-2 ..../bin/as.exe: Permission denied

2003-01-19 Thread Dario Alcocer
:\cygwin\usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\as.exe from a DOS command line using the 'attrib' command. If the 'S' flag isn't displayed, then reset the system attributes using the command 'attrib +s *.exe'. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http

Re: [nasm packaging review] was Re: Pending packages status

2002-12-30 Thread Dario Alcocer
version of Ghostscript. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com

Re: [nasm packaging review] was Re: Pending packages status

2002-12-30 Thread Dario Alcocer
on your Debian system with the one produced on Cygwin. If both Postscript files are exactly the same, then I'd say that there's a problem with Ghostscript. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ghostscript-7.05-2

2002-11-12 Thread Dario Alcocer
. -- Dario Alcocer -- Cygwin Ghostscript Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

Re: Ghostscript 7.05-2 ready for review, upload (fwd)

2002-10-29 Thread Dario Alcocer
at: http://www.helixdigital.com/~alcocer/gs I've checked them and uploaded the new packages to sources.redhat.com. I've also removed the 6.51-* packages. Thanks. I'll send out the package announcement later today. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Ghostscript 7.05-2 ready for review, upload (fwd)

2002-10-28 Thread Dario Alcocer
them over; again, they're located at: http://www.helixdigital.com/~alcocer/gs -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com

Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1

2002-07-27 Thread Dario Alcocer
Ghostscript from sources. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Thanks to Rob Collins for uploading the updated setup.hint files to sourceware, Christopher Faylor for reviewing the package layout, and Chuck Wilson for his review and his help uploading the package. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix

Re: [ITP] FreeCiv 1.12.0 for X

2002-07-10 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 12:13:16PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 08:03:23AM -0700, Dario Alcocer wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:23:57AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: If there are two binaries (and X version and a separate ncurses version) that can each

Re: Ghostscript 7.05 test version ready for review, upload

2002-07-08 Thread Dario Alcocer
that changed are setup.hint, md5sum, and the source package.) -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com

Re: Ghostscript 7.05 test version ready for review, upload

2002-07-08 Thread Dario Alcocer
the source package, and uploaded three new hint files, and updated the md5sum file. Please take a look when you have some time. I really appreciate you taking the time to review the package. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com

Ghostscript 7.05 test version ready for review, upload

2002-07-07 Thread Dario Alcocer
are located at: http://www.helixdigital.com/~alcocer/gs/ -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-07 Thread Dario Alcocer
:-( Sorry, didn't mean to add to your frustration with the list. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:14:09AM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote: Dario Alcocer wrote: Are there any guidelines or suggestions regarding packaging source, patches and binaries for programs (like Ghostscript) that can be built for either Cygwin or Cygwin/XFree86? Unless I hear a very

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Dario Alcocer
selling hardware without manuals. Sure, you can *still* use it, but it's really a pain to download the documentation if you'd like explore additional features or configurations. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:47:28PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 06:57:23AM -0700, Dario Alcocer wrote: Are there any guidelines or suggestions regarding packaging source, patches and binaries for programs (like Ghostscript) that can be built for either Cygwin

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Dario Alcocer
or /usr/X11R6/man. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com

Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

2002-07-06 Thread Dario Alcocer
pages in /usr/share/man -- *presumably* man pages are identical on all platforms. Not always true, but hey] So, it sounds like manual pages should go into /usr/share/man. If it's OK with you and Chris, I'll run with this. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL

Updated: ghostscript-6.51-4

2002-02-27 Thread Dario Alcocer
-fonts-*-6.0.tar.gz 5. Once you install it, you can test it: $ gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -dBATCH -sOutputFile=tiger.jpg \ /usr/share/ghostscript/6.51/examples/tiger.ps The Cygwin patches are in CYGWIN-PATCHES, along with this file. Have fun! -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ghostscript-6.51-4

2002-02-27 Thread Dario Alcocer
/ghostscript gnu-gs-fonts-*-6.0.tar.gz 5. Once you install it, you can test it: $ gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -dBATCH -sOutputFile=tiger.jpg \ /usr/share/ghostscript/6.51/examples/tiger.ps The Cygwin patches are in CYGWIN-PATCHES, along with this file. Have fun! -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software

ghostscript 6.51-4 now ready

2002-02-26 Thread Dario Alcocer
to sources.redhat.com and can upload this package, please let me know. I'll wait until the package has been uploaded before I post my package update announcement. Thanks in advance, -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ghostscript-6.51-3

2002-02-19 Thread Dario Alcocer
): $ tar xzCf /usr/share/ghostscript gnu-gs-fonts-*-6.0.tar.gz 5. Once you install it, you can test it: $ gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -dBATCH -sOutputFile=tiger.jpg \ /usr/share/ghostscript/6.51/examples/tiger.ps The Cygwin patches are in CYGWIN-PATCHES, along with this file. Have fun! -- Dario