Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-02-27 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sjors Gielen wrote: [...] I'm working on a project porting the Debian tools to Cygwin. Yes, yes, I know I'm replying to a post over a month old. Nevertheless, I recently found something that's relevant: http://debian-interix.net/ This is a Debian

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi. Sjors Gielen wrote: Now I'm wondering where to host this project. I've been thinking about three locations: Sourceforge, Debian or Cygwin. I've filed a project takeover request for Sourceforge, but the original project admin seems to work against me a little and it doesn't seem fit to

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Carsten Hey
Sjors Gielen wrote: ... but the Cygwin packages are different from their Debian counterparts (think patches), and I'm not sure how that happens with other ports. debian-devel, is this a problem? No, this is no problem. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD also uses additional patches. Carsten -- Unsubscribe

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Just a comment about the debian-win32 project: I can read from the list archive that the main issue was that the VFS doesn't allow to remove or to overwrite through mv a file in use. IIRC that issue got fixed not so many months ago in cygwin, and I can confirm that it now seems to work:

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Sjors Gielen
Hey, Thanks for all your answers! Carsten Hey wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:14:24AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: So maybe debian-win32 could just be awaken since the barring issue seems gone? This is what I would try first. I hope you are successful with this. Carsten I was using

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sjors Gielen, le Wed 21 Jan 2009 13:28:55 +0100, a écrit : I started with the idea when I noticed this project. It had been dead for a few years, and I liked the idea and looked into it. I had some contact with the original admin. He added me to the project, created an SVN repository on my

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Sjors Gielen
Samuel Thibault schreef: Sjors Gielen, le Wed 21 Jan 2009 13:28:55 +0100, a écrit : I started with the idea when I noticed this project. It had been dead for a few years, and I liked the idea and looked into it. I had some contact with the original admin. He added me to the project, created an

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
BTW, AIUI from a cygwin point of view, in principle there shouldn't be any need to patch debian sources: if cygwin behaves differently from linux, then it's a bug in cygwin. One exception is of course the configure target which contains cygwin instead of linux. Appart from that, every fix should

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Sjors Gielen
Tzafrir Cohen schreef: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:49:29AM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote: Hey lists, I'm working on a project porting the Debian tools to Cygwin. Currently, my plan is to: - Provide some required patches to the Cygwin team, for example to allow a file in use to be removed or

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:24:15PM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote: Tzafrir Cohen schreef: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:49:29AM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote: I'm working on a project porting the Debian tools to Cygwin. Currently, my plan is to: - Provide some required patches to the Cygwin team, for

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-21 Thread Salokine Terata
Hi, Maybe you could document your works on http://wiki.debian.org/Kernel ? Look at Debian/kFreeBSD for example. Best regards. Salokine. On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:24:15PM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote: Tzafrir Cohen schreef: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:49:29AM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote: I'm

Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-19 Thread Sjors Gielen
Hey lists, I'm working on a project porting the Debian tools to Cygwin. Currently, my plan is to: - Provide some required patches to the Cygwin team, for example to allow a file in use to be removed or modified, since this is required for dpkg - Re-compile all packages and patches currently

Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?

2009-01-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sjors Gielen, le Tue 20 Jan 2009 00:49:29 +0100, a écrit : I'm working on a project porting the Debian tools to Cygwin. Ususally ports are hosted by debian-ports.org. Samuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: