setup.hints which mention Base in their category

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
The discussion in the cygwin list got me wondering if we had had creepage into the Base category so, since grep is my friend, I came up with this list: alternatives/setup.hint gzip/setup.hint ash/setup.hint login/setup.hint base-files/setup.hint

Re: setup.hints which mention Base in their category

2007-06-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 6 11:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: The discussion in the cygwin list got me wondering if we had had creepage into the Base category so, since grep is my friend, I came up with this list: alternatives/setup.hint gzip/setup.hint ash/setup.hint

Re: setup.hints which mention Base in their category

2007-06-06 Thread Frank Fesevur
At 6-6-2007 18:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 6 11:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: So the question is: Does this list look right. I'm not sure about brltty and gdbm. And I also wonder about ncurses, readline, and zlib. While they probably do get used by default anyway, I wonder why they

Re: [ITP] sqlite3

2007-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Max Bowsher wrote: SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine. It will be a mandatory dependency of future Subversion releases. http://mps.sh.nu/~maxb/cygsqlite3/release/sqlite3/ # sqlite3 sdesc: Embeddable SQL

Re: setup.hints which mention Base in their category

2007-06-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: alternatives/setup.hint gzip/setup.hint ash/setup.hint login/setup.hint base-files/setup.hint man/setup.hint base-passwd/setup.hint ncurses/libncurses5/setup.hint bash/setup.hint

Re: setup.hints which mention Base in their category

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:38:09PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: alternatives/setup.hint gzip/setup.hint ash/setup.hint login/setup.hint base-files/setup.hint man/setup.hint base-passwd/setup.hint

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Samuel Thibault (Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:08:31 +0800) Version 3.8 of brltty has been uploaded. Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal. Brltty is a background process (daemon) providing access to the Windows Console for a blind person using a refreshable braille

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thorsten Kampe, le Wed 06 Jun 2007 09:33:04 +0100, a écrit : * Samuel Thibault (Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:08:31 +0800) Version 3.8 of brltty has been uploaded. Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal. Brltty is a background process (daemon) providing access to the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Samuel Thibault wrote: Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Are packages from the Base category automatically installed? Yes, setup automatically selects everything in Base for installation, which by

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 6 02:42, Brian Dessent wrote: Samuel Thibault wrote: Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that an accessibility package doesn't make sense in the Base category.

need working cygwin tool for https download

2007-06-06 Thread Mike Marchywka
Hi, I tried lynx and curl on this and can't get either to work: https://www.affymetrix.com/analysis/netaffx/fullrecord.affx?pk=CANINE%3A1602952_AT Since I've never used https before, I'm not sure if I'm doing something stupid or there is a problem with lynx or the page is setup to defeat

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: file-4.21-1

2007-06-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of file to 4.21-1. This version is an update to the official version 4.21. This is mainly a security bugfix release, fixing a buffer underflow vulnerability. See http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2799 The Cygwin version is build from the vanilla

Re: need working cygwin tool for https download

2007-06-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Mike Marchywka wrote: curl --user-agent Mozilla/4.0 --anyauth -d logon=xxx -d password=xxxc -c cookies -L https://www.affymetrix.com/analysis/netaf fx/fullrecord.affx?pk=CANINE%3A1592474_AT And what is the exact error or failure? curl works just fine with https, you can verify that your

Re: need working cygwin tool for https download

2007-06-06 Thread Mike Marchywka
Thanks- I was hoping lynx would work as I use that for everything else. Apparently curl was just redirecting to a login screen. If I post to their form I can at least get the bad user/pw screen so it seems that curl, and for that matter wget, do seem to just fine. Now, I just need to figure out

RE: Problem with /proc/registry

2007-06-06 Thread Long, Phillip GOSS
Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: Hi When trying to check some keys in the registry I ran into some problems System is winxp and it doesn't matter if I'm administrator Or not. ls -la /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/MountedDevices/ Gives a long list of: ls: cannot access

cron functionality regression?

2007-06-06 Thread Thomas Berger
Hello, From http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00319.html : The changes (listed in /usr/share/doc/cron/CHANGES) don't appear to break compatibility with 3.0. this seems to be a version of vixie cron which (contrary to the previous one) consistently (e.g. also in the manpage) does not

CVS 1.7.0 heap errors

2007-06-06 Thread Brian Ford
FYI, I'm seeing the following errors quite often with current 1.7.0 CVS and have been for some time. For instance, I can't use my CVS build to build Cygwin again. I've yet to have time to investigate much, and don't see that changing for some time :-(. 6 [main] ? (1584)

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:26:54PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 6 02:42, Brian Dessent wrote: Samuel Thibault wrote: Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Dave
Brian Dessent wrote: Samuel Thibault wrote: Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Last I heard, setup.exe was not particularly friendly wrt screen readers (cf. package selection). Hence the visually

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 6/6/07, Dave wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Samuel Thibault wrote: Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Last I heard, setup.exe was not particularly friendly wrt screen readers (cf. package

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:22:30PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 6/6/07, Dave wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Samuel Thibault wrote: Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Last I heard, setup.exe

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Thu 07 Jun 2007 03:24:45 +0800, a écrit : About the linux-utils dependency, it was needed in previous brltty revisions, but not any more, so I'll drop it. You may want to update setup.hint from http://brl.thefreecat.org/brltty/setup.hint to fix them as soon as now without

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, DePriest, Jason R., le Wed 06 Jun 2007 14:22:30 -0500, a écrit : It seems that when you trace the requirements of brltty down, you end up with xorg, perl, and python packages getting installed. Python dependency is only hard for compile-time. Brltty doesn't itself use python. Only python

Re: cron functionality regression?

2007-06-06 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: Thomas Berger To: The Cygwin Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 9:38 AM Subject: cron functionality regression? | Hello, | | From http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00319.html : | | The changes (listed in /usr/share/doc/cron/CHANGES)

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brian Dessent, le Wed 06 Jun 2007 02:42:50 -0700, a écrit : Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Indeed, but as pointed out by DaveK2: Last I heard, setup.exe was not particularly friendly wrt screen

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 03:24:45AM +0800, Samuel Thibault wrote: Brian Dessent, le Wed 06 Jun 2007 02:42:50 -0700, a ?crit : Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Indeed, but as pointed out by DaveK2:

chgcheck.out

2007-06-06 Thread Carlos Robinson
Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Jun 06 14:50:17 2007 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin c:\WINDOWS\system32 c:\WINDOWS

Re: SWIG: Python 2.5

2007-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: SWIG maintainer, Support for Python 2.5 was added to SWIG in = 1.3.30, but the distro has curr: 1.3.29-2. As Python 2.5 is now in the distro, a SWIG update is imperative to those of us building Python extensions. The Subversion Python bindings build fine, using

replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread Jerome Fong
Hi There, I was wondering if there was a way to save and duplicate my cygwin installation so I can replicate it on a different machine. The idea is, I have scripts and programs developed and tested on my cygwin install. I want to be able to deploy everything that I am running on my machine.

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 6/6/07, Jerome Fong wrote: Hi There, I was wondering if there was a way to save and duplicate my cygwin installation so I can replicate it on a different machine. The idea is, I have scripts and programs developed and tested on my cygwin install. I want to be able to deploy everything that

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:03:22PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 6/6/07, Jerome Fong wrote: Hi There, I was wondering if there was a way to save and duplicate my cygwin installation so I can replicate it on a different machine. The idea is, I have scripts and programs developed and

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine]

2007-06-06 Thread David Arnstein
- Forwarded message from Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I would not suggest using zip as the mechanism for backing up and restoring. As has been noted 10497 times in this mailing list Windows ZIP does not properly save the bits needed to recreate things like symlinks. And, we've

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread Brian Dessent
[ Reply to the list please! ] David Arnstein wrote: Will this alternate method work? I am thinking about trying this. 1. Archive the Local Package Directory that features in setup.exe. 2. Restore the above to the new computer. Preserve file structure, but don't worry about permissions

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread Jerome Fong
Sorry, I'm not sure what am I suppose to tar up? Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:03:22PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 6/6/07, Jerome Fong wrote: Hi There, I was wondering if there was a way to save and duplicate my cygwin installation so I can replicate it on a

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:15:35PM -0700, Jerome Fong wrote: Sorry, I'm not sure what am I suppose to tar up? You can't even hazard a guess? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

2007-06-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jerome Fong wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:03:22PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 6/6/07, Jerome Fong wrote: Hi There, I was wondering if there was a way to save and duplicate my cygwin installation so I can replicate it on a different machine. The idea

Updated: file-4.21-1

2007-06-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of file to 4.21-1. This version is an update to the official version 4.21. This is mainly a security bugfix release, fixing a buffer underflow vulnerability. See http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2799 The Cygwin version is build from the vanilla