Re: Firewall ports for Cygwin setup.exe to access mirror.kernel.org?

2024-01-08 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2024-01-07 08:10, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: Can someone provide a list of TCP ports which must be open in the outgoing firewall settings, so Cygwin setup.exe can fetch data from mirror.kernel.org? You should not just use the US default mirrors.kernel.org on the west coast in San Jose

Re: Firewall ports for Cygwin setup.exe to access mirror.kernel.org?

2024-01-07 Thread Andrey Repin via Cygwin
Greetings, Dan Shelton! > Can someone provide a list of TCP ports which must be open in the > outgoing firewall settings, so Cygwin setup.exe can fetch data from > mirror.kernel.org? Standard HTTP ports. 80/443 -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Sunday, January 7, 2024 23:20:38 Sor

Firewall ports for Cygwin setup.exe to access mirror.kernel.org?

2024-01-07 Thread Dan Shelton via Cygwin
Hello! Can someone provide a list of TCP ports which must be open in the outgoing firewall settings, so Cygwin setup.exe can fetch data from mirror.kernel.org? Dan -- Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: have cygwin setup.exe signed and/or in the MS store

2023-05-16 Thread Philippe Cerfon via Cygwin
Hey there. Now that sourceware seems to be under he SFC umbrella, I assume Cygwin is so as well? If so, could it perhaps be reconsidered, whether funding (from SFC) can be found for buying some signing certs for setup.exe? Regards, Philippe. On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 2:00 AM Philippe Cerfon

Re: have cygwin setup.exe signed and/or in the MS store

2023-04-12 Thread Philippe Cerfon via Cygwin
Hey. On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 3:35 PM Andrey Repin wrote: > msgid:camu-taupf3dzpye3xj0f_gyrchzprxjxbyafd6tt9my+a7j...@mail.gmail.com I assume nothing came out of the SFC member thingy discussed back then in that thread? > And earlier mails on the subject. Perhaps this would be an item for the

Re: have cygwin setup.exe signed and/or in the MS store

2023-04-12 Thread Andrey Repin via Cygwin
Greetings, Philippe Cerfon! > Hey there. > I know you provide OpenPGP signatures for verification (which is good, > and should be kept), but would it perhaps make sense to have setup.exe > signed (in the sense of: by some MS trusted certificate) and/or in the > MS store (though I guess that

have cygwin setup.exe signed and/or in the MS store

2023-04-11 Thread Philippe Cerfon via Cygwin
Hey there. I know you provide OpenPGP signatures for verification (which is good, and should be kept), but would it perhaps make sense to have setup.exe signed (in the sense of: by some MS trusted certificate) and/or in the MS store (though I guess that might not be possible with their policy)?

Re: Windows 10/Cygwin setup.exe error - IO Error Opening File:

2016-08-14 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jenny Pawlak! > 5. Cygwin setup works for maybe a minute and then gives the first of > many, many pop-up messages "IO Error Opening > file._autorebase/binutils/cygwin/grep/mintty etc. Do you want to > skip this package?" Your AV blocks Cygwin rebasing. Either tell it to behave or

Windows 10/Cygwin setup.exe error - IO Error Opening File:

2016-08-13 Thread Jenny Pawlak
I am a new Windows 10 user and am trying to install Cygwin for the first time (no prior Cygwin installation experience). I didn't find similar questions asked either on Cygwin or on StackOverflow. Here is the problem: 1. Running Windows 10 Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.51) on a new laptop with

RE: Older versions of Cygwin setup.exe

2016-07-27 Thread Secure Hell
To: 'Peter A. Castro' <doc...@fruitbat.org>; 'Cygwin List' <cygwin@cygwin.com> Subject: RE: Older versions of Cygwin setup.exe Hi Peter, I would take any and all past versions of the setup.exe, setup-x86.exe and setup-x86_64.exe binary that you have regardless of version. Ide

RE: Older versions of Cygwin setup.exe

2016-07-26 Thread Secure Hell
Cygwin List <cygwin@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: Older versions of Cygwin setup.exe On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:13:47 +0200 > From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Older versions of Cygwin setu

Re: Older versions of Cygwin setup.exe

2016-07-14 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Marco Atzeri wrote: Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:13:47 +0200 From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Older versions of Cygwin setup.exe On 14/07/2016 17:09, Secure Hell wrote: Are older versions of the setup.exe, setup-x86.exe,

Re: Older versions of Cygwin setup.exe

2016-07-14 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 14/07/2016 19:56, Secure Hell wrote: Hi Marco, Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, either I don't see what I'm looking for on your link or it doesn't provide what I am looking for. In case I was unclear, I want all the previous setup.exe installers from Cygwin. What you sent seems to

Re: Older versions of Cygwin setup.exe

2016-07-14 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 14/07/2016 17:09, Secure Hell wrote: Are older versions of the setup.exe, setup-x86.exe, setup-x86_64.exe available for download anywhere? It's really the installer I'm after and not the actual packages those installers install. I would settle for a hash list if that exists (i.e. MD5, SHA1

Older versions of Cygwin setup.exe

2016-07-14 Thread Secure Hell
Are older versions of the setup.exe, setup-x86.exe, setup-x86_64.exe available for download anywhere? It's really the installer I'm after and not the actual packages those installers install. I would settle for a hash list if that exists (i.e. MD5, SHA1 and/or SHA256). Any help appreciated.

Re: Same mirror data with both Cygwin setup.exe?

2014-08-12 Thread Gery
Thank you Warren and David for your commentaries about my question. Well, I use Seismic Unix and have installed before in cygwin 32-bit without problems. I tried it a couple of days in my Cygwin 64-bit and it crashed or gave strange data outputs. This seismic unix also uses x11 programs, they

Same mirror data with both Cygwin setup.exe?

2014-08-11 Thread Gery .
Hi, Is it advisable to run both Cygwin 32- and 64-bit setup installers with the same downloaded set of packages from a unique mirror? I have 6GB data downloaded from a mirror, I downloaded that while running step 64-bit installer. I want to remove that Cygwin 64-bit and now install the Cygwin

Same mirror data with both Cygwin setup.exe?

2014-08-11 Thread Gery .
Hi, Is it advisable to run both Cygwin 32- and 64-bit setup installers with the same downloaded set of packages from a unique mirror? I have 6GB data downloaded from a mirror, I downloaded that while running step 64-bit installer. I want to remove that Cygwin 64-bit and now install the Cygwin

Re: Same mirror data with both Cygwin setup.exe?

2014-08-11 Thread Warren Young
On 8/11/2014 14:57, Gery . wrote: Is it advisable to run both Cygwin 32- and 64-bit setup installers with the same downloaded set of packages from a unique mirror? I have 6GB data downloaded from a mirror, I downloaded that while running step 64-bit installer. I want to remove that Cygwin

Re: Same mirror data with both Cygwin setup.exe?

2014-08-11 Thread David Stacey
On 11/08/14 21:57, Gery . wrote: Is it advisable to run both Cygwin 32- and 64-bit setup installers with the same downloaded set of packages from a unique mirror? I have 6GB data downloaded from a mirror, I downloaded that while running step 64-bit installer. If you used setup-x86_64.exe to

Re: Using multiple download mirrors in Cygwin setup.exe

2014-02-28 Thread carolus
On 2/22/2014 9:32 AM, carolus wrote: When multiple mirrors are selected in setup.exe, if a server becomes unresponsive should the program automatically roll over to another server and continue? When it does, should it avoid repeating previous downloads? answered:

Using multiple download mirrors in Cygwin setup.exe

2014-02-22 Thread carolus
When multiple mirrors are selected in setup.exe, if a server becomes unresponsive should the program automatically roll over to another server and continue? When it does, should it avoid repeating previous downloads? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Permalinks for versioned Cygwin setup.exe files

2013-10-14 Thread Thomas Deinhamer
Hi there, are there official permalinks for the setup.exe file to download a specific version of Cygwin? For example http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64-1.7.25.exe Thanks! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Permalinks for versioned Cygwin setup.exe files

2013-10-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/14/2013 8:03 PM, Thomas Deinhamer wrote: Hi there, are there official permalinks for the setup.exe file to download a specific version of Cygwin? For example http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64-1.7.25.exe No. setup*.exe installs the current version if you Install from Intranet. -- Larry

baffling cygwin setup.exe behavior

2013-10-08 Thread Don Hatch
I've always been baffled by cygwin setup's behavior. I wish I understood it and could control it. Here is a typical example where I want to do something very simple and I have no idea how to get the setup program to do it. Help! My goal: upgrade rcs to the currently considered most stable

Re: baffling cygwin setup.exe behavior

2013-10-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/8/2013 2:52 PM, Don Hatch wrote: snip So, as far as I can see, the only way to get rcs 5.8.2-1 is to globally select Curr and *don't click on rcs at all*. So, to upgrade rcs and nothing else, I'd have to globally select Curr and manually change every package *except* rcs to Keep, leaving

Re: baffling cygwin setup.exe behavior

2013-10-08 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 08/10/2013 2:52 PM, Don Hatch wrote: I've always been baffled by cygwin setup's behavior. I wish I understood it and could control it. Here is a typical example where I want to do something very simple and I have no idea how to get the setup program to do it. Help! My goal: upgrade rcs to

Postinsall script errrors Unknown package if running Cygwin setup.exe to update my installation

2013-08-02 Thread Thomas Jung
Hello, After I stoped all runnning services cygrunserv, portmap, sshd and starting setup.exe --no-shortcuts to update all my packages I got an error since I insalled some additional packages [I assume and AFAIR which are necessary for some (command line) pdf tools, like pdftk or ghostscript) Now

Re: Postinsall script errrors Unknown package if running Cygwin setup.exe to update my installation

2013-08-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/2/2013 10:46 AM, Thomas Jung wrote: snip Package: Unknown package pango1.0.sh exit code 1 snip Does anybody know what cause this problem and how to fix it? snip http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00695.html -- Larry

Re: Postinsall script errrors Unknown package if running Cygwin setup.exe to update my installation

2013-08-02 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Jung! After I stoped all runnning services cygrunserv, portmap, sshd and starting setup.exe --no-shortcuts to update all my packages I got an error since I insalled some additional packages [I assume and AFAIR which are necessary for some (command line) pdf tools, like

Re: Postinsall script errrors Unknown package if running Cygwin setup.exe to update my installation

2013-08-02 Thread Thomas Jung
Hello Larry, Does anybody know what cause this problem and how to fix it? [...] http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00695.html Perfect. Thank you. All is working fine now. T. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: possible libtool bug blocking builds of Cygwin setup.exe

2013-04-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Peter, On Apr 13, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2013-04-13 02:31, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi Peter, On 13/04/13 09:15, Peter Rosin wrote: /snip Have I stumbled on a real problem? This all sounds suspiciously like libtool bug 14022, where the reporter had confused --build and --host. How did you

Re: possible libtool bug blocking builds of Cygwin setup.exe

2013-04-12 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-04-12 16:34, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, I am having trouble building Cygwin setup.exe (regular 32bit on 32bit). I am finding that the build is hanging at the linking stage of libgetopt++: make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/shaddy/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-setup-build

Re: possible libtool bug blocking builds of Cygwin setup.exe

2013-04-12 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Peter, On 13/04/13 09:15, Peter Rosin wrote: /snip Have I stumbled on a real problem? This all sounds suspiciously like libtool bug 14022, where the reporter had confused --build and --host. How did you run configure? I'm emulating what is in setup/bootstrap.sh: $

Re: possible libtool bug blocking builds of Cygwin setup.exe

2013-04-12 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-04-13 02:31, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi Peter, On 13/04/13 09:15, Peter Rosin wrote: /snip Have I stumbled on a real problem? This all sounds suspiciously like libtool bug 14022, where the reporter had confused --build and --host. How did you run configure? I'm emulating what

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs While that sounds nice, doesn't that introduce more puzzled questions? I can easily imagine people thinking

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Reini Urban
2011/2/3 Corinna Vinschen: On Feb  2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs Shouldn't we start to seperate pure mingw executables from cygwin somewhen? Then we

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/3/2011 8:13 AM, Reini Urban wrote: 2011/2/3 Corinna Vinschen: On Feb 2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs Shouldn't we start to seperate pure mingw

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:24:58PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs - Add a start menu item pointing to that copy of setup.exe - Type 'cygwin-setup -q -Ppackage

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread marco atzeri
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:24:58PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs - Add a start menu item pointing

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Reini Urban
2011/2/3 Charles Wilson: On 2/3/2011 8:13 AM, Reini Urban wrote: 2011/2/3 Corinna Vinschen: On Feb  2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs Shouldn't we start

Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2010-05-05 Thread Uh-Oh
-missing issue. So I wish Cygwin setup.exe/setup-1.7.exe can provide an option like keep only newest packages in local directory, it will be very helpful :) lftp does what you want. Type in command prompt: lftp open ftp://ftp.byfly.by/pub/cygwin/ lcd /path_to_local_cygwin_dir/cygwin/ mirror

My DIY solution Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-12-01 Thread LiuYan 刘研
reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Cygwin-setup.exe%3A-Clean

Re: My DIY solution Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:31:48AM -0800, LiuYan ?? wrote: After I viewed setup.ini, I decide to write a little script to do this. Currently, it scans all the sub-directory of cygwin local package directory, and delete all the old files which not listed in setup.ini or setup-2.ini. You didn't

Re: My DIY solution Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-12-01 Thread LiuYan 刘研
/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Cygwin-setup.exe%3A-Clean-historical-setup-packages-tp26569064p26593462.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive

Re: My DIY solution Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:15:43AM -0800, LiuYan ?? wrote: Hi Christopher, I've figure out one reason in my first post: Our servers have NO internet connection, so I'd better to keep a local copy of install packages, so that I can upgrade cygwin on servers by choose Install from Local

Update Re: My DIY solution Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-12-01 Thread LiuYan 刘研
://old.nabble.com/Cygwin-setup.exe%3A-Clean-historical-setup-packages-tp26569064p26594254.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:19:07PM -0800, LiuYan ?? wrote: I'm using Cygwin for several years, it help me very much in my work. There's a tiny issue: after downloaded in several years, the total size of my local setup packages directory had grown up to G bytes, while a fresh setup packages

Cygwin setup.exe crashes during 1st-time install of cygwin

2009-10-29 Thread isthis1taken
Cygwin setup.exe crashes during 1st-time install of cygwin. The crash always occurs at the same screen: selection of the packages path for the local install option. System: Windows XP Pro SP3 32-bit Taking the same steps produces the same results, including installation under Safe Mode

Re: Customizable cygwin setup.exe

2009-10-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:27:26PM -0600, Miles Gazic wrote: If you'd like to host the perl script and modified setup.exe on a server somewhere, you could very easily have a web page deliver customized setup.exes to any poor shmuck that is trying to evangelize cygwin to people who are unwilling to

Customizable cygwin setup.exe

2009-10-09 Thread Miles Gazic
I made a local cygwin mirror at my company, but I still had some people that got confused when installing cygwin.  I've had the same problem at previous jobs, where people are confused when installing cygwin, and it makes them reluctant to do so. I investigated what's required to customize the

Re: Customizable cygwin setup.exe

2009-10-09 Thread Ralph Hempel
Miles Gazic wrote: I made a local cygwin mirror at my company, but I still had some people that got confused when installing cygwin. I've had the same problem at previous jobs, where people are confused when installing cygwin, and it makes them reluctant to do so. I investigated what's

Re: Customizable cygwin setup.exe

2009-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:41:42PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: Miles Gazic wrote: I made a local cygwin mirror at my company, but I still had some people that got confused when installing cygwin. I've had the same problem at previous jobs, where people are confused when installing cygwin, and it

Re: Customizable cygwin setup.exe

2009-10-09 Thread Miles Gazic
it probably would have been better to have checked here first before going to such effort. Sorry, when I investigated this originally, the -p option didn't exist in the mainstream setup.exe. I found a patch that did it, edited it slightly to work with the latest rev of setup.exe (at the time

RE: Customizable cygwin setup.exe

2009-10-09 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Ralph Hempel wrote on Friday, October 09, 2009 4:42 PM: Miles Gazic wrote: I made a local cygwin mirror at my company, but I still had some people that got confused when installing cygwin. I've had the same problem at previous jobs, where people are confused when installing cygwin, and it

Cygwin setup.exe flagged by AVG as high level security threat because of Win32.AirCrack.c

2009-10-07 Thread Martin N Brampton
I cannot find any reference to AirCrack anywhere in documentation directly related to Cygwin. What information I can find through Google doesn't give me any idea why Cygwin would contain code for cracking passwords in wireless networks. It doesn't seem wise to install something that an

Re: Cygwin setup.exe flagged by AVG as high level security threat because of Win32.AirCrack.c

2009-10-07 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Martin N Brampton wrote: I cannot find any reference to AirCrack anywhere in documentation directly related to Cygwin. Unless you got a bad copy of cygwin from a disreputable site, that someone has inserted a virus into, it doesn't contain aircrack or any other

Re: Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

2009-03-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:46:16AM -0600, Terry Fleming wrote: --- original/setup-2.573.2.3/propsheet.cc +++ setup-2.573.2.3/propsheet.cc @@ -162,6 +162,11 @@ static LRESULT CALLBACK PropSheetWndProc (HWND hwnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) {

Re: Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

2009-03-16 Thread Terry Fleming
$ diff original/setup-2.573.2.3/propsheet.cc setup-2.573.2.3/propsheet.cc 164a165,169 if(((uMsg==WM_SYSCOMMAND)((wParam0xfff0)==SC_CLOSE))|| (((uMsg==WM_COMMAND)(wParam==2 if(MessageBox(hwnd, Are you sure you want to exit setup? Any current

Re: Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

2009-03-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 08:24:02AM -0600, Terry Fleming wrote: $ diff original/setup-2.573.2.3/propsheet.cc setup-2.573.2.3/propsheet.cc 164a165,169 if(((uMsg==WM_SYSCOMMAND)((wParam0xfff0)==SC_CLOSE))|| (((uMsg==WM_COMMAND)(wParam==2 if(MessageBox(hwnd,

Re: Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

2009-03-15 Thread Terry Fleming
I figured it out. The intercept has to go in PropSheetWndProc() in propsheet.cc, not in WindowProc() in window.cc. The latter function is dead code. Also, the message loop in Window::MessageLoop() in window.cc is indeed broken, as Andy Koppe and I suspected, but it doesn't matter, because that

Re: Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

2009-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 07:47:33AM -0600, Terry Fleming wrote: I figured it out. The intercept has to go in PropSheetWndProc() in propsheet.cc, not in WindowProc() in window.cc. The latter function is dead code. Also, the message loop in Window::MessageLoop() in window.cc is indeed broken, as Andy

Re: Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

2009-03-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 07:47:33AM -0600, Terry Fleming wrote: I can't believe I wasted two days of my life on this sludge. I can't believe I wasted five minutes of my life reading email from someone who doesn't know how to use a debugger. Chris, I know how to use

Re: Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

2009-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 03:01:31PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 07:47:33AM -0600, Terry Fleming wrote: I can't believe I wasted two days of my life on this sludge. I can't believe I wasted five minutes of my life reading email from someone who

Re: Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

2009-03-15 Thread Terry Fleming
Sorry about the sludge remark.

Re: Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

2009-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 04:59:42PM -0600, Terry Fleming wrote: Sorry about the sludge remark. NP. Are you going to be producing a patch? It sounds like you've potentially found a way to add some desirable functionality. cgf

Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

2009-03-14 Thread Terry Fleming
I want setup to ask for confirmation before exiting when alt+f4 is pressed, like firefox and many other programs do, rather than immediately exiting and terminating any download/install in progress, like it currently does. I spent many of the past 24 hours reading Win32 API documentation (I'm not

Re: Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

2009-03-14 Thread Andy Koppe
Cygwin setup.exe's message loop is this  while (GetMessage (msg, NULL, 0, 0) != 0         GetMessage (msg, (HWND) NULL, 0, 0) != -1) I might not sufficiently understand Win32 messaging, but to me that looks as if it's dropping every other message. Shirley it should be calling GetMessage only

Re: Trying to add an exit confirmation dialog to Cygwin setup.exe, failing

2009-03-14 Thread Terry Fleming
Andy Koppe andy.ko...@gmail.com wrote: Cygwin setup.exe's message loop is this  while (GetMessage (msg, NULL, 0, 0) != 0         GetMessage (msg, (HWND) NULL, 0, 0) != -1) I might not sufficiently understand Win32 messaging, but to me that looks as if it's dropping every other message.

Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Lars Bjørndal
Hello! Two words about myself: I'm blind, and I'm new to this list. Mostly, I'm using Linux. However, sometimes I need to do tasks on a Windows system, and there Cygwin is handy, as you know... Well, the problem is the seutp.exe. This program, and I know you've heared this reported several times

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Ralph Hempel
Lars Bjørndal wrote: snip Anyway, today I found a hacked version of setup.exe which allowed a command line parameter '-p package list', which was very useful. And that's why the new setup supports complete operation by the command line. Note that it still throws up the dialogs on the screen

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Lars Bjørndal wrote: Anyway, today I found a hacked version of setup.exe which allowed a command line parameter '-p package list', which was very useful. I found the hacked verison here: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mr349/setup.exe and the patch for it is here:

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 15:03, Dave Korn wrote: Gang, we keep getting asked for this, and as long as we're going to keep a legacy 1.5 distro hanging around for people to use, shouldn't we ought to backport the patch to the branch? I'm kinda busy right now with binutils and gcc, and not likely to have

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:03, Dave Korn wrote: Gang, we keep getting asked for this, and as long as we're going to keep a legacy 1.5 distro hanging around for people to use, shouldn't we ought to backport the patch to the branch? I'm kinda busy right now with binutils and gcc,

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 15:36, Dave Korn wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:03, Dave Korn wrote: Gang, we keep getting asked for this, and as long as we're going to keep a legacy 1.5 distro hanging around for people to use, shouldn't we ought to backport the patch to the branch? I'm

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:02:16PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:36, Dave Korn wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:03, Dave Korn wrote: Gang, we keep getting asked for this, and as long as we're going to keep a legacy 1.5 distro hanging around for people to use,

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:02:16PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:36, Dave Korn wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:03, Dave Korn wrote: Gang, we keep getting asked for this, and as long as we're going to keep a legacy 1.5 distro hanging

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Ralph Hempel
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I thought we were planning on keeping it around more-or-less indefinitely for the benefit of 9x users? Uh, well, yes. Never mind. If somebody wants to invest the time, feel free. Quick show of hands - how many people are still using 9x? Anyone? ... Buehler?

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 11:49, Ralph Hempel wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I thought we were planning on keeping it around more-or-less indefinitely for the benefit of 9x users? Uh, well, yes. Never mind. If somebody wants to invest the time, feel free. Quick show of hands - how many people are

RE: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Ralph Hempel wrote on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:49 AM: Quick show of hands - how many people are still using 9x? I stall have 98se on my home machine, but I almost never use cygwin on it. I can live without cygwin on it, and I can handle a gui. Perhaps the real question is the number of

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Ralph Hempel wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I thought we were planning on keeping it around more-or-less indefinitely for the benefit of 9x users? Uh, well, yes. Never mind. If somebody wants to invest the time, feel free. Quick show of hands - how many people are still using 9x?

RE: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-31 Thread Thrall, Bryan
acmeinc wrote on Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:27 PM: I'm trying to install Cygwin apps via the Cygwin shell rather than opening and running the setup.exe via the windows interface. I figure there must be a way, similar to FreeBSD ports tree, to install Cygwin/Unix apps via the Cygwin shell.

Re: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-31 Thread Ralph Hempel
Thrall, Bryan wrote: For example (untested), to install vim and bc: setup.exe -d -q -R 'c:\cygwin' -s 'http://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/' -l 'c:\cygwin\home\thrall' -P vim,bc I'm not sure, but I _think_ the -P is only available in the 1.7 setup. The -D and -L options are not specified in

RE: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-31 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Ralph Hempel wrote on Friday, October 31, 2008 10:04 AM: Thrall, Bryan wrote: For example (untested), to install vim and bc: setup.exe -d -q -R 'c:\cygwin' -s 'http://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/' -l 'c:\cygwin\home\thrall' -P vim,bc I'm not sure, but I _think_ the -P is only available

RE: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-31 Thread Dave Korn
Ralph Hempel wrote on 31 October 2008 15:04: One thing nagging in the background is whether or not you can/should update your cygwin installation while any Cygwin processes are running. Well, there's obviously going to be a bash process running if you do things that way, but hopefully that

RE: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-31 Thread acmeinc
reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cygwin-setup.exe-via-the-cygwin-shell-tp20259653p20270087.html Sent from the Cygwin list

RE: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-31 Thread Dave Korn
acmeinc wrote on 31 October 2008 16:59: Unfortunately setup.exe is not a viable command. Does it need to be enabled somehow? $ setup.exe -h bash: setup.exe: command not found http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.not-found cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a

Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-30 Thread acmeinc
remotely as I have OpenSSH setup. Please let me konw if you any information regarding installing and setting up Cygwin via the Cygwin shell. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cygwin-setup.exe-via-the-cygwin-shell-tp20259653p20259653.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list

Scripting Cygwin setup.exe

2008-01-29 Thread paul . hermeneutic
I need to be able to install and update Cygwin on a machine using a script which specifies additional packages to include and to uninstall. I do not currently believe that I need to specify version numbers, but that might be a nice feature. The apt-cyg package looks good, but it cannot install

installing cygwin: setup.exe error (0xc000007b)

2007-12-18 Thread Richard Noble
downloaded setup.exe from http://cygwin.com. Downloaded and ran setup.exe with anti-virus software disabled as per FAQ. I receive the following error message immediately after executing setup.exe (The application failed to initialize properly (0xc07b). Click on OK to terminate the

RE: installing cygwin: setup.exe error (0xc000007b)

2007-12-18 Thread Dave Korn
On 18 December 2007 19:32, Richard Noble wrote: downloaded setup.exe from http://cygwin.com. Downloaded and ran setup.exe with anti-virus software disabled as per FAQ. I receive the following error message immediately after executing setup.exe (The application failed to initialize properly

Re: Unable to install cygwin setup.exe - need help.

2007-10-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to setpup Cygwin in my PC. I tried with many mirror site near to me. But, I get the following error messgae from all the mirror site: Unable to get setup.ini from mirror site (all that I added during installation). Could you please, let me

RE: Unable to install cygwin setup.exe - need help.

2007-10-11 Thread Dave Korn
On 11 October 2007 13:16, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to setpup Cygwin in my PC. I tried with many mirror site near to me. But, I get the following error messgae from all the mirror site: Unable to get setup.ini from mirror site (all that I

Re: Unable to install cygwin setup.exe - need help.

2007-10-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Dave Korn wrote: On 11 October 2007 13:16, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to setpup Cygwin in my PC. I tried with many mirror site near to me. But, I get the following error messgae from all the mirror site: Unable to get setup.ini from mirror

Re: Unable to install cygwin setup.exe - need help.

2007-10-11 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 10/11/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) Truley Epic wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 11 October 2007 13:16, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to setpup Cygwin in my PC. I tried with many mirror site near to me. But, I get the following error messgae from all

Unable to install cygwin setup.exe - need help.

2007-10-10 Thread nbaski
Hi, I was trying to setpup Cygwin in my PC. I tried with many mirror site near to me. But, I get the following error messgae from all the mirror site: Unable to get setup.ini from mirror site (all that I added during installation). Could you please, let me know how to resolve

bug in Win32 Cygwin setup.exe

2007-09-27 Thread Cody May
In order to install Cygwin, I must use either the IE5 settings or a proxy. Upon running the setup.exe program, if I click on Use IE5 settings first, then I have no problem; it finds the mirrors, and I'm golden. If I click on Direct Connection and it fails, I click Back, and then click on Use

Re: cygwin setup.exe reverse-video bug

2006-03-10 Thread Robert J. Cristel
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Robert J. Cristel on 3/6/2006 6:55 AM: settings - control panel - display - appearance - Scheme - High Contrast Black (Extra Large) Now run setup and you cannot read from the main program selection widow. Try to

Re: cygwin setup.exe reverse-video bug

2006-03-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Robert J. Cristel wrote: Here's a workaround: settings - control panel - display - appearance - item -window - font color palette is now activated select something that's not white Or you could just use a setup.exe snapshot with the fix. Brian

cygwin setup.exe reverse-video bug

2006-03-06 Thread Robert J. Cristel
settings - control panel - display - appearance - Scheme - High Contrast Black (Extra Large) Now run setup and you cannot read from the main program selection widow. Try to select? Still nothing but white.

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