On 2010/01/10 6:45 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
So your argument is based on the desire to have *another* package
manager application, besides 'setup.exe', that could be used from within
Cygwin applications to update Cygwin applications?
Something like that, yes. The idea that one should be
On 01/11/2010 03:23 AM, Steven Monai wrote:
I will do that. Thanks for your time.
I think this will give you a good background for understanding why 'setup.exe'
exists and some of the history for its initial and continued development and
the alternatives that have been discussed over time.
On Jan 9 23:28, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:09:41AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
The most pressing problem is the replacement of the cygwin DLL itself.
It's like installing a new kernel in Linux. However, in Linux you have
to reboot to use the new kernel, while
On 2010/01/09 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 8 17:28, Steven Monai wrote:
Not to beat a dead hippo here, but if Cygwin allows in-use files to be
replaced, then what is 'setup.exe' needed for? (Aside from the initial
bootstrap of Cygwin, of course.) Shouldn't it be possible to have
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:36:50AM -0800, Steven Monai wrote:
On 2010/01/09 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 8 17:28, Steven Monai wrote:
Not to beat a dead hippo here, but if Cygwin allows in-use files to be
replaced, then what is 'setup.exe' needed for? (Aside from the initial
bootstrap
According to Christopher Faylor on 1/10/2010 12:27 PM:
This idea has been put forth many times since that time. The fact that
it isn't implemented means that either 1) It's more difficult than you
anticipate or 2) No one thinks its a good idea.
And here's one reason why. Newer versions of
On 2010/01/10 12:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
According to Christopher Faylor on 1/10/2010 12:27 PM:
No one thinks its a good idea.
And here's one reason why. Newer versions of cygwin1.dll introduce new
entry points. But suppose you are updating cygwin1.dll and bash at the
same time. If the
On 2010/01/10 3:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 01:28:34PM -0800, Steven Monai wrote:
On 2010/01/10 12:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
According to Christopher Faylor on 1/10/2010 12:27 PM:
No one thinks its a good idea.
And here's one reason why. Newer versions of
On 01/10/2010 07:20 PM, Steven Monai wrote:
On 2010/01/10 3:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
snip
Yes, if you do something brain-dead you can expect bad results.
There can be non-brain-dead reasons for attempting to upgrade one
package while holding another related one at a specific
On Jan 8 17:28, Steven Monai wrote:
On 2010/01/08 2:38 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 01/08/2010 03:41 PM, Christian Franke wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 01/07/2010 09:39 PM, David Gast wrote:
There are two problems with updating cygwin.
1. If you run setup.exe from bash,
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:09:41AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
The most pressing problem is the replacement of the cygwin DLL itself.
It's like installing a new kernel in Linux. However, in Linux you have
to reboot to use the new kernel, while Cygwin is just a DLL. After the
rename and
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 01/07/2010 09:39 PM, David Gast wrote:
There are two problems with updating cygwin.
1. If you run setup.exe from bash, bash cannot be updated
because the file is in use.
Sure. This is the reason 'setup.exe' exists. It's a Windows
feature that keeps you from
On 01/08/2010 03:41 PM, Christian Franke wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 01/07/2010 09:39 PM, David Gast wrote:
There are two problems with updating cygwin.
1. If you run setup.exe from bash, bash cannot be updated
because the file is in use.
Sure. This is the reason 'setup.exe'
On 2010/01/08 2:38 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 01/08/2010 03:41 PM, Christian Franke wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 01/07/2010 09:39 PM, David Gast wrote:
There are two problems with updating cygwin.
1. If you run setup.exe from bash, bash cannot be updated
because the file is
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Steven Monai steve+cyg...@monai.ca wrote:
snip
Not to beat a dead hippo here, but if Cygwin allows in-use files to be
replaced, then what is 'setup.exe' needed for? (Aside from the initial
bootstrap of Cygwin, of course.) Shouldn't it be possible to have proper
There are two problems with updating cygwin.
1. If you run setup.exe from bash, bash cannot be updated
because the file is in use. If the libraries have
been updated
and bash expects old libraries, for example, you
can't do
anything in cygwin. In the update instructions, you
On 01/07/2010 09:39 PM, David Gast wrote:
There are two problems with updating cygwin.
1. If you run setup.exe from bash, bash cannot be updated
because the file is in use.
Sure. This is the reason 'setup.exe' exists. It's a Windows
feature that keeps you from replacing a file that's in
Hi--
I tried updating my Cygwin installation, and got a message indicating
that cygreadline6.dll was missing. I did not request any changes; I was just
trying to update my current configuration to the latest release.
My suspicion is that something has been recently updated incorrectly. I've
Carl Lund wrote:
Hi--
I tried updating my Cygwin installation, and got a message indicating
that cygreadline6.dll was missing. I did not request any changes; I was
just trying to update my current configuration to the latest release.
My suspicion is that something has been recently updated
Nahor wrote:
Carl Lund wrote:
Hi--
I tried updating my Cygwin installation, and got a message indicating
that cygreadline6.dll was missing. I did not request any changes; I
was just trying to update my current configuration to the latest release.
My suspicion is that something has been
Hi Harold,
On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 13:15:36 -0400 Harold L Hunt wrote:
Harold The XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-15 release should fix your problems.
Yep, seems to work. There is some flashing, but updates are done
correctly for my first checks. Thanks for the quick fix.
Harold Jochen Küpper wrote:
I do
Jochen,
The XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-15 release should fix your problems.
Harold
Jochen Küpper wrote:
I started up the Cygwin XFree86 server yesterday again (after many
weeks). Thanks for all the improvements!
I do have a problem with window content updates, though. I am running
latest Cygwin (as of
I started up the Cygwin XFree86 server yesterday again (after many
weeks). Thanks for all the improvements!
I do have a problem with window content updates, though. I am running
latest Cygwin (as of yesterday) on a Win2000 system with focus
follows mouse policy (this can be set in TweakUI).
Jochen,
Yes, I can reproduce this behavior.
I added the following processing to winTopLevelWindowProc() and would
like a review from some other developers. Note: It does fix the
problem, but I am not 100% sure that it is correct.
case WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED:
{
LPWINDOWPOS
Hello,
yesterday I tried to enhance my cygwin-distribution with some additional
programs. Therefore I started the install tool and selected some
features and installed them.
Afterwards I realised that I cannot start the postmaster anymore. It
terminates immediately. In the logfile I find then:
Jan,
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:30:18PM +0100, Jan Klostermann wrote:
IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(key=5432001, size=1441792, 03600) failed: Function not
implemented
The above implies that ipc-daemon is not running. Starting ipc-daemon
should solve your problem.
Jason
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Subject: Latest update problems (ntsec and file permissions, I think)
Once I did that, things were better. Is this a problem that is going
Thanks much. Everything is working fine now ... I guess each install of a
perl module will be a mini-adventure.
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Corey,
I am running Cygwin 1.3.9-1 on a Win2k Workstation. I am logged in as
the
I am running Cygwin 1.3.9-1 on a Win2k Workstation. I am logged in as the
Administrator and when I try to update some perl modules via
'perl -MCPAN -eshell' I get the following error:
Cannot forceunlink
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi/auto/Term/ReadKey
/ReadKey.dll: Permission
Hallo Corey,
Am 2002-03-14 um 19:19 schriebst du:
I am running Cygwin 1.3.9-1 on a Win2k Workstation. I am logged in as the
Administrator and when I try to update some perl modules via
'perl -MCPAN -eshell' I get the following error:
Cannot forceunlink
Corey,
I am running Cygwin 1.3.9-1 on a Win2k Workstation. I am logged in as the
Administrator and when I try to update some perl modules via
'perl -MCPAN -eshell' I get the following error:
Cannot forceunlink
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi/auto/Term/ReadKey
/ReadKey.dll:
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