How to fix a non-default package version?

2012-03-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
I would like to keep Perl 5.14 and lighttpd 1.4.18 installed on my Cygwin system, but every time I run setup.exe Perl 5.10 and lighttpd 1.4.20 are automatically installed (I often forget to change the versions back). Is there some way I can fix the versions I want? I can't find anything on this in

lighttpd: any chance of an update?

2012-03-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
Hi, the current default version of lighttpd is not only 10 releases and a few years out of date, it has a rather serious bug: you can't log stderr from CGI processes. There's a workaround: install 1.4.18, a slightly older version that is still available, but it would be nice to use a more modern

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote: This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: etex pdfetex language.def-translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini Either (1) the second word should be changed to etex, or (2) it should be arranged for etex in invoke pdfetex instead of

Typo in run(1): exiting - existing

2010-08-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
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