RE: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

Martin.Fitzpatrick@... wrote: > This document is strictly confidential and intended only for use by the > addressee unless otherwise stated. If you are not the intended recipient, > please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Martin, per

RE: Buffering problem in netcat server script

Sven Severus wrote: > Question 1: > Why do I face different behaviour with "cat -n" and "sed s/e/E/g"? > Are there cygwin related reasons? > Which behaviour should I expect (I know there are buffering > mechanisms for stdout when not connected to a tty, so I tend to > say the buffering behaviour is

RE: Autocompletion of shell variables

Jovan Grbic wrote: > I have an irk with Cygwin 1.7.16. The problem is that the autocompletion of > shell variables is not functioning if I don't use full windows executable > name of standard linux tool. > > For example. I have variable SERVER=a.b.c.d. When i try > ssh $SER > autocomplete does

CVS checkout with absolute path fails in 32-bit build

I've found a bug with CVS on 32-bit Cygwin. Easiest to demonstrate with a simple testcase: $ export CVSROOT=$(pwd)/tmpcvsroot $ cvs init $ cvs co -d $(pwd)/cvswork . cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot make directory : No such file or directory It appears to be including the `$(pwd)/`

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Git v2.4.4

Version 2.4.4-1 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - git - git-completion - git-cvs - git-debuginfo - git-email - git-gui - gitk - git-svn This is an update to the latest upstream release. For a f

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Git v2.4.5

Version 2.4.5-1 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - git - git-completion - git-cvs - git-debuginfo - git-email - git-gui - gitk - git-svn This is an update to the latest upstream release. For a f

[Attn CVS maintainer] Re: CVS checkout with absolute path fails in 32-bit build

Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 08:08:51PM +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > I've found a bug with CVS on 32-bit Cygwin. Easiest to demonstrate with > a simple testcase: > > $ export CVSROOT=$(pwd)/tmpcvsroot > $ cvs init > $ cvs co -d $(pwd)/cvswork . > cvs [checkout

Re: [Attn CVS maintainer] Re: CVS checkout with absolute path fails in 32-bit build

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:03:34PM +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 7/20/2015 11:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Here's the problem from https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint: > > > > cvs ORPHANED (Charles Wilson) > > > >Anybody willing to take over CVS maintainersh

Git packages with Perl 5.2.2 [Was: CVS checkout with absolute path fails in 32-bit build]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:36:15AM +, Achim Gratz wrote: > Sorry to wedge into this thread, but while you are here: could you please > follow up on the timeline for a Git rebuild using Perl 5.22 over on > cygwin-apps? Ah, I'd missed that, thanks for the pointer. Clearly I need to set up some

Re: [Attn CVS maintainer] Re: CVS checkout with absolute path fails in 32-bit build

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:29:33PM +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 7/20/2015 1:27 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:03:34PM +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: > >>On 7/20/2015 11:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>Here's the problem from

Re: [Attn CVS maintainer] Re: CVS checkout with absolute path fails in 32-bit build

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:29:33PM +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: > I just uploaded a cvs-1.11.23-2 version as test for 32bit only. I missed the "as test" the first time I read this email, and thought all my mirrors were being incredibly slow to pick up the change... > It uses all the patches availab

cygutils depends on obsolete libpopt0 package

According to the 32-bit setup.ini I've just downloaded, the cygutils package has a single dependency: libpopt0. However libpopt0 is marked as an obsolete package. Can we either reinstate libpopt0 to full package status, so it appears in the regular setup-x86 package lists, or switch cygutils to d

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Git v2.4.5-2

Version 2.4.5-2 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - git - git-completion - git-cvs - git-debuginfo - git-email - git-gui - gitk - git-svn This update contains no upstream changes; it is a rebuild

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Git v2.4.5-3

Version 2.4.5-3 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - git - git-completion - git-cvs - git-debuginfo - git-email - git-gui - gitk - git-svn This update incorporates two build changes: - Returning

Re: Cannot connect

On 12/08/2015 15:23, Kai Hartrampf wrote: Hello, I'm located in China, Guangzhou and cannot connect for some reason. I usually use IPSec, it works very well for me. Please see the Log below, it says that I should report this problem to this mail. I have already downloaded and re-installed the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Git v2.5.1-1

Version 2.5.1-1 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - git - git-completion - git-cvs - git-debuginfo - git-email - git-gui - gitk - git-svn This is an update to the latest upstream release. For a f

Odd package search behaviour: \+\+\.la

If I use the package search on the Cygwin website to search for `\+\+\.la`, then as expected, the results[0] include mingw-gcc-g++-4.5.2-1, which includes the file `usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.5.2/debug/libstdc++.la` However, if I search for `libstdc\+\+\.la`, despite this being just the full na

Re: why no gpg-agent for Cygwin?

On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 03:20:45PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > So, why isn't there a gpg-agent for Cygwin? Any hope of having one some > day? I suspect simply because nobody has packaged one, and somebody has to do the work to make it available. I doubt anyone would object to you submitting

Re: Problem with git and file mode changes

On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 04:44:11PM +0200, Dani Moncayo wrote: > After doing a 'git pull', I saw that git didn't make the merge, > because apparently I had some local changes. But I didn't make > any local change. For example, this file appears as modified: > > $ git status --short test/rmailmm

Mailing list CCing etiquette [Was: Problem with git and file mode changes]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 12:13:51PM +0200, Dani Moncayo wrote: > (BTW, did you keep my address in CC? Because I didn't get any of your > replies. I had to check the mailing list web archive [1]). Standard procedure on this list (which I think is different to most such lists, but it's afaik what t

Re: Https proxy auth issue with git in cygwin 2.2.1

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 08:54:39AM +0200, Lukasz Pielak wrote: > In the latest Cygwin 2.2.1. git doesn’t work with proxy authentication. What do you mean by proxy authentication here? What do you have configured, and how? > The git version is 2.5.1 and the curl version is 7.43. > The error print

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Git v2.5.3-1

Version 2.5.3-1 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - git - git-completion - git-cvs - git-debuginfo - git-email - git-gui - gitk - git-svn This is an update to the latest upstream release. For a f

Re: Https proxy auth issue with git in cygwin 2.2.1

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 07:13:07AM +, LukaszPielak wrote: > Adam Dinwoodie dinwoodie.org> writes: > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 08:54:39AM +0200, Lukasz Pielak wrote: > > > The git version is 2.5.1 and the curl version is 7.43. > > > The error prints fatal:

[Attn: base-files maintainer] Changing /etc/profile to add more shell-dependent settings

Achim, The /etc/defaults/etc/profile file in base-files has a section at the end to import scripts in /etc/profile.d, but this currently only works with zsh. Can this section be expanded to make calls as appropriate for other shells? I'm particularly interested in Fish and Bash, although I don't

Re: [Attn: base-files maintainer] Changing /etc/profile to add more shell-dependent settings

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:20:13AM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 16:52 +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > The /etc/defaults/etc/profile file in base-files has a section at the > > end to import scripts in /etc/profile.d, but this currently only works > >

Re: [Attn: base-files maintainer] Changing /etc/profile to add more shell-dependent settings

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 06:53:27PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: > Adam Dinwoodie writes: > > The /etc/defaults/etc/profile file in base-files has a section at the > > end to import scripts in /etc/profile.d, but this currently only works > > with zsh. > > No, this sec

Re: [Attn: base-files maintainer] Changing /etc/profile to add more shell-dependent settings

On 14/10/2015 19:27, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Adam Dinwoodie! That, however, doesn't give me anywhere to put the Bash fzf script. It's not POSIX compliant, so I don't want to use ".sh". I can't find any directory other than /etc/profile.d that Bash trawls,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: links 2.12-1 -- Text mode WWW browser

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 11:36:18PM +0200, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > Am 15.10.2015, 07:24 Uhr, schrieb Jari Aalto: > >PACKAGE DESCRIPTION > >=== > > > >Homepage: http://freecode.com/projects/links > > I tried 6 different mirrors and all have links 2.8-2, not 2.12 (32 > bit). Why's t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: fzf

The following pacages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: - fzf - fzf-bash - fzf-bash-completion - fzf-zsh - fzf-zsh-completion - fzf-fish - fzf-vim fzf is a command-line fuzzy finder. These packages provide the core fuzzy finder, as well as a Vim plugin, Bash and Z shell k

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fzf v0.10.9

No sooner do I get one package complete does another upstream release appear... fzf 0.10.9 has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - fzf - fzf-bash - fzf-bash-completion - fzf-zsh - fzf-zsh-completion - fzf-fish -

Re: Recent change to terminal icon / mintty breaks taskbar pinning

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 09:53:29AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 11 06:53, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Brian Mathis! > > > > > I recently updated to the latest set of cygwin packages, and something > > > has broken the terminal icon when pinned to the start menu. When > > > start

Re: Https proxy auth issue with git in cygwin 2.2.1

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:26:14PM +, Johan Laenen wrote: > Adam Dinwoodie dinwoodie.org> writes: > > > I think I've found the problem, and you're right -- Git has changed the > > way it makes the curl call. The culprit is commit 5841520b in the > > u

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fzf v0.11.0

fzf 0.11.0 has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - fzf - fzf-bash - fzf-bash-completion - fzf-zsh - fzf-zsh-completion - fzf-fish - fzf-vim This is an update to the latest upstream release; the upstream change

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fzf v0.11.0

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 03:51:13PM -0700, Keith Christian wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > fzf 0.11.0 has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near > > you. > > Thanks, Adam. Should we see this "$(__fzf_history__)&q

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git v2.6.2

Version 2.6.2-1 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - git - git-completion - git-cvs - git-debuginfo - git-email - git-gui - gitk - git-svn This is an update to the latest upstream release. For a f

Incorrect Python errors when using os.remove to delete a directory

If I use os.remove in Python to remove a directory, I expect it to fail with an OSError on Python2 or a IsADirectoryError on Python3. On Python2, I get OSError, but with the wrong error code, whereas on Python3 I get completely the wrong exception. Simple testcases: $ rm -rf testdir && mkdir

Re: control-R broken in bash (__fzf_history__)

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:36:16PM -0600, David Blackstone wrote: > Recently I found that the behavior of control-R in bash had changed. > The key binding has been modified by the fzf-bash package to activate > the fzf fuzzy search program. The first noticeable result is that > pressing control-R

Re: Incorrect Python errors when using os.remove to delete a directory

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 04:09:52PM +0100, Michael Wild wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > If I use os.remove in Python to remove a directory, I expect it to fail > > with an OSError on Python2 or a IsADirectoryError on Python3. On > > Python

Re: Git issue.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:30:27PM +, boulderfans wrote: > [/cygdrive/d/projects] > $ git --git-dir=d:/projects/git-git/.git config alias.foo ls-files > error: Unable to open tempfile: > /cygdrive/d/projects/d:/projects/git-git/.git/config.lock > error: could not lock config file d:/projects/g

Re: Git issue.

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 12:07:19AM +, Matt Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:30:27PM +, boulderfans wrote: > > > [/cygdrive/d/projects] > > > $ git --git-dir=d:/projects/git-git/.git config alias.foo ls-files > > > error: Unable to open tempfile: > > > /cygdrive/d/projects/d:/

Re: Fwd: SSHD not connecting from outside(real) IP

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 06:05:32PM -0200, João Paulo wrote: > Hello all, > I have a mystery and I need help. I have openssh(Cygwin) installed > and working just fine in here. > I can connect normally from any of my machines to the server using > local IPs. Ex: ssh localhost or ssh 192.168.0.2. BUT,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fzf v0.11.1

fzf 0.11.1 has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - fzf - fzf-bash - fzf-bash-completion - fzf-zsh - fzf-zsh-completion - fzf-fish - fzf-vim This is an update to the latest upstream release; the upstream change

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git v2.7.0

Version 2.7.0-1 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - git - git-completion - git-cvs - git-debuginfo - git-email - git-gui - gitk - git-svn This is an update to the latest upstream release. For a f

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fzf v0.11.3-1

fzf 0.11.3-1 has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - fzf - fzf-bash - fzf-bash-completion - fzf-zsh - fzf-zsh-completion - fzf-fish - fzf-vim This is an update to the latest upstream release; you can see the up

Re: git svn -T svn://svn. ...

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 01:32:30PM -0500, cyg Simple wrote: > Using the latest production release 2.4.1(1) the command is removing the > / after the svn: leaving svn:/svn which isn't correct. Using > 'svn://svn' doesn't help either. > > (2) $ git svn init -T 'svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/squirrelmail/

Re: git svn -T svn://svn. ...

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 07:46:06PM +, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 01:32:30PM -0500, cyg Simple wrote: > > Using the latest production release 2.4.1(1) the command is removing the > > / after the svn: leaving svn:/svn which isn't correct. Using > >

Re: ctrl-c doesn't reliably kill ping

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 02:00:38PM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Frank Farance! > > > A little digression, so you understand the background ... The workstation I > > am > > doing this from is connected to a Verizon router to their FIOS network. > > Now the > > reason I mention this is

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: Ag / The Silver Searcher v0.31.0-1

Ag / The Silver Searcher has been added to the Cygwin distribution, and should be coming soon to a distribution server near you. The Silver Searcher is a code searching tool, similar to Ack, with a focus on speed. See http://geoff.greer.fm/ag/ for more information. -- Problem reports: http

Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Gerrit Haase wrote: > 2016-03-15 15:02 GMT+01:00 Erik Soderquist wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Gerrit Haase wrote: > >> Well, thanks. I did the installation today, and > >> /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh obviously didn't run. > > > > S

Re: [Attn] git maintainer: Remote Code Execution for git < 2.7.1

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 07:43:54AM +0200, Ismail Donmez wrote: > Please see http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/15/5 . > Would be nice to update to just released 2.7.3 version. Ack, thanks for the heads up. I've been holding off on making a release while investigating some test fai

Re: Running texconfig breaks backspace in Bash/MinTTY

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 07:34:12AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > On 3/17/2016 7:40 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > > On 3/16/2016 6:11 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >> Am 16.03.2016 um 16:07 schrieb Ken Brown: > >>> On 3/16/2016 10:00 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > >>>>

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git v2.7.3-1

Version 2.7.3-1 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - git - git-completion - git-cvs - git-debuginfo - git-email - git-gui - gitk - git-svn This is an update to the latest upstream release. Notably

Re: Running texconfig breaks backspace in Bash/MinTTY

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 08:34:45AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > On 3/16/2016 7:45 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > >Here's an interesting bug: normally in a Bash session in MinTTY, > >backspace and Ctrl+H both delete the previous character, as expected. > >However, after running

Re: git svn -T svn://svn. ...

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 07:56:36PM +, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 07:46:06PM +0000, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 01:32:30PM -0500, cyg Simple wrote: > > > Using the latest production release 2.4.1(1) the command is removing the >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git v2.7.4-1

Version 2.7.4-1 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - git - git-cvs - git-debuginfo - git-email - git-gui - gitk - git-svn This is an update to the latest upstream release. Notably, it includes a fix

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git v2.7.3-2

Version 2.7.3-2 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages only: - git (only on 64-bit) - git-svn (both 32-bit and 64-bit) This update corrects some dependency errors in the earlier v2.7.3-1 build. These errors may me

Re: [Attn] git maintainer: Remote Code Execution for git < 2.7.1

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:41:41AM +0200, Ismail Donmez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 07:43:54AM +0200, Ismail Donmez wrote: > >> Please see http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/15/5 . > >>

Running texconfig breaks backspace in Bash/MinTTY

Here's an interesting bug: normally in a Bash session in MinTTY, backspace and Ctrl+H both delete the previous character, as expected. However, after running texconfig and returning to the shell, both the backspace key and Ctrl+H appear to just print "^H" to the terminal. It looks like this is gen

Re: git svn -T svn://svn. ...

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 07:46:06PM +, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 01:32:30PM -0500, cyg Simple wrote: > > Using the latest production release 2.4.1(1) the command is removing the > > / after the svn: leaving svn:/svn which isn't correct. Using > >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fzf v0.11.4-1

fzf 0.11.3-1 has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - fzf - fzf-bash - fzf-bash-completion - fzf-zsh - fzf-zsh-completion - fzf-fish - fzf-vim This is an update to the latest upstream release; you can see the up

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git v2.8.0-1

Version 2.8.0-1 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - git - git-cvs - git-debuginfo - git-email - git-gui - gitk - git-svn This is an update to the latest upstream release. For a full list of the ups

Re: Missing dependency ?

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 01:36:39PM +0200, Nicolas Viard wrote: > I've got an error 500 trying to run git instaweb (after installing > gitweb package) because nothing was installed to run > /usr/share/gitweb/gitweb.cgi . > I solved it with perl-CGI package. > > So I think a dependency between gitwe

RE: Info for the item "does patch.exe work different than other unx patch tools?" (i.e. "hunk 1 out of 3 hunks failed")

Thomas Höhenleitner wrote: > >2012/11/8 Thomas Höhenleitner >: >> >> 2012/11/8 Ryan Johnson >: >> Per , please don't include raw email addresses in your replies. This mailing list is archived online, and we'd rather not feed the spammers. See also http://cygwin.c

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: keepassx-0.4.3-2

David Stacey wrote: > Version 0.4.3-2 of keepassx has been uploaded. > > DESCRIPTION > KeePassX is a Qt port of KeePass Password Safe password manager. As a frequent user of the Windows KeePass Password Safe, is there any advantage to using this version (effectively a port to Windows of a port fro

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: keepassx-0.4.3-2

David Stacey wrote: > On 16/11/12 15:40, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> David Stacey wrote: >>> Version 0.4.3-2 of keepassx has been uploaded. >>> >>> DESCRIPTION >>> KeePassX is a Qt port of KeePass Password Safe password manager. >> As a frequent user

"MS-DOS style path detected" triggered by escaped $ in path

Hi, If I use paths that contain $ symbols, and backslash-escape them, I start seeing warnings about MS-DOS style paths in Cygwin bash. For example, where I hit after the .ssh/: $ cp //pcname/C\$/cygwin/home/add/.ssh/cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: //pcname/C\$/cygwin/home/

RE: "MS-DOS style path detected" triggered by escaped $ in path

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 26 10:44, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> If I use paths that contain $ symbols, and backslash-escape them, I start >> seeing warnings about MS-DOS style paths in Cygwin bash. For example, where >> I >> hit after the .ssh/: >> >>

RE: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

win1.dll, these are not rights you can withhold on that software. --- Adam Dinwoodie The views in this post do not represent the views of my employer. -- Problem 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

RE: Where can I find the official cygwin openssh documentation?

Christopher Faylor wrote: > We have no plans to put package documentation on the web site. Is this something that would change if someone were to volunteer to curate and maintain the documentation? I'm not volunteering, at least until I've a better idea of the commitment involved, but is this a c

RE: mintty deadlocks when pasting very long lines of text

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Ryan Johnson wrote on Friday, December 14, 2012 2:51 PM >> $ cat > foo.txt >> >> Thoughts? > > $ getclip > foo.txt Or $ cp /dev/clipboard foo.txt -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Doc

RE: -sh: ssh: command not found

jacol wrote: > I installed CGWIN GNU bash, version 4.1.10(4)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) > > I ran this (portions obscured) > > Got this: > > > Then I ran env: > Nabble apparently screws with formatting. Please just use the mailing list per . While you're there, read th

RE: Problems with installation

do you mean? I assume you don't mean your browser can't download Cygwin's setup.exe, as that's certainly not a problem with Cygwin. Please read through the problem reporting guidelines for advice on how to ask for help usefully: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.co

RE: python2.6 appears to be missing _md5 module?

marco atzeri wrote: > On 12/20/2012 9:33 AM, Paul Fredrickson wrote: >> So, it appears there is a package dependency between python2.6 and >> libopenssl098 that is missing, but most people who need it get it >> installed via some other package-dependency path. Very minor bug; >> should I file a bug

RE: disk format question

uestion marks; you'll probably need to escape them in bash). There's a little more discussion about this directory from Corinna at <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2012-10/msg1.html>. I've looked through the UG, and quickly searched Google, and can't find anyt

RE: Rebuilding make

under profanity > ? Is it not allowed to post patches here ? "WTF" is implied profanity. cgf's point was that rather than complaining that your message was rejected, you'd have better luck reading the rejection email and follow the instructions there. -- Adam Dinwoodie Messag

RE: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

ll use what's set in /etc/passwd, ie /home/user. -- Adam Dinwoodie Messages posted to this list are made in a personal capacity. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscrib

RE: screen and mintty window size

n use Ctrl+a, ? to get a list of the main key bindings. -- Adam Dinwoodie Messages posted to this list are made in a personal capacity. -- Problem 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

Location of /usr/lib [Was: Using jhbuild on cygwin]

gwin DLL is installed in, /usr/lib is > supposed to point to the /lib directory. -- Adam Dinwoodie Messages posted to this list are made in a personal capacity. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

RE: One unreadable sentence at http://cygwin.com/setup.html

with Firefox 18 I also see the problem on Chrome 24 on Win7. IE9 on Win7 is readable and doesn't display the problem. > and the issue is clearly caused by style.css: > #navbar h4 > { > font-style: normal; > font-size: .1em; > } According to Chrome's developer console,

RE: One unreadable sentence at http://cygwin.com/setup.html

e... > > Done. Can you please check if that fixed the OPs problem? Fixed on my Google Chrome. Although I'd argue the correct fix would be to replace the ... with That makes more semantic sense to me, since that line isn't really a header at all. -- Adam Dinwoodie Messages posted to this list are made in a personal capacity.

RE: Is this a bug or a behavior?

has yet suggested a more consistent alternative that still allows, for example, a Linux shell script that calls unadorned "grep" to work on Cygwin. If this is causing you a real problem that you can explain, the list may be able to give you some assistance working around it. For your (I re

Expanding @-pathnames from Cygwin bash

e parent process isn't a Cygwin process. If so, the UG shouldn't explain the behaviour in the example as being due to echo being a bash built-in; that behaviour also occurs if you invoke echo.exe. -- Adam Dinwoodie Messages posted to this list are made in a personal capacity. -- Problem

RE: Cygwinports

Chloe wrote: > Just curious, why isn't ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports on the > standard list of mirrors? It seems like it should be because it has many more > packages. That's exactly why it isn't in the standard list of mirrors: it contains packages that aren't part of the Cygwin distr

RE: Is there a source of moderately random data with good speed in Cygwin?

m to produce your output, along the lines of (untested): #include int main () { unsigned char c; for (c = 0;; c++) putchar(c); } Alternatively, pre-cache some output and use that: head --bytes=1G >/var/cache/randomdata ./myapp <(while :;do ca

RE: Is there a source of moderately random data with good speed in Cygwin?

Alan Thompson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Adam Dinwoodie > wrote: Standard reminder: please don't quote email addresses. This is a publicly archived mailing list, and I'd prefer not to receive any more spam than I already do. See also http://cygwin.com/acronym

RE: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

t;> short for hibernate. > > To me -b sounds like 'b;inary how about -s for 's'leep since sleep is > synonymous with hibernate. Sleep is very definitely not synonymous with hibernate! Sleeping puts the computer in a low-power mode, but keeps the computer turned on with da

bash-completion load times

t's worth, however, both for users and maintainers. - Something else yet to be suggested. Regards, Adam -- Adam Dinwoodie Messages posted to this list are made in a personal capacity. times.csv Description: times.csv -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

RE: bash-completion load times

Gary Johnson wrote: > Cygwin's bash-completion package is version 1.3. Versions 1.9 and > later use dynamic loading of completions that is supposed to > improve the loading times. I think your best bet is to wait for the > Cygwin package to be updated to the latest 2.1 version and see how > that

Stack Overflow versus the Cygwin mailing lists (Was: prefork error : couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161)

dvocating any change. I just think that they're each appropriate for what they're trying to do, and as such we're going to continue to see questions in both places. -- Adam Dinwoodie Messages posted to this list are made in a personal capacity. -- Problem reports: h

RE: git svn fork() problems on cygwin 1.7.20

't help, follow the problem reporting guidelines: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Adam Dinwoodie Messages posted to this list are made in a personal capacity. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

Updating Git

only just managed to get Git building on my machine, still see it failing some test cases, and have not maintained a Cygwin package previously. -- Adam Dinwoodie Messages posted to this list are made in a personal capacity. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

RE: Updated Git build

]: http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/git;a=summary [2]: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-06/msg00474.html -- Adam Dinwoodie Messages posted to this list are made in a personal capacity. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin and x: directory

On 15 July 2013 11:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 12 20:09, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> IMHO, this makes an interesting problem (unrelated to git): >> Shell script prompts user for file name. >> User enters "x:". >> Script proceeds as follows: >> $ mkdir tmpdir >> $ touch tmpdir/x: >> $ # usefu

Re: abort: address space needed by 'cygXcursor-1.dll ... is already occupied

On 4 September 2013 17:58, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On 4 September 2013 15:19, Septimus Stevens wrote: >> Today I type 'xstart' and get only two xterms, with an error shown >> in the subject line. My workaround is to modify .xinitrc to start >> FOUR xterms so I

Re: abort: address space needed by 'cygXcursor-1.dll ... is already occupied

On 4 September 2013 15:19, Septimus Stevens wrote: > I'm novice but stumbled into a configuration that works OK for me. > I type 'startx' and get an X environment with three xterms. > > Yesterday I meant to type 'cat Foo > Bar' but accidentally left off > the '>'. Foo was a binary file and that xt

Re:

On 6 September 2013 16:49, Manoj Navandar wrote: > I recently installed cygwin on Windows 8 64 bit. Packages installation > worked fine but it seems Mintty is missing. I reinstalled cygwin > setup-x86_64 [version 2.819-64 bit] by adding mintty (both bin and > src) under shell tab (1.2-beta-1.1 vers

Re: Request package updates for Poppler, Subversion and Git

On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 15:21, Kptain wrote: > > Hi all, > > I don't know who are the maintainer(s), > but it would be great if these packages could be updated: > > - latest versions are: > > . Git 2.24.1 > . Subversion 1.13.0 > . Poppler 0.83 > > > It'd be great if it could be refres

Re: Package request: nnn file manager

Hi Arun, On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 09:45, Arun Prakash Jana wrote: > I noticed your response now. Somehow I didn't receive a mail when you > responded. > > I would have loved to contribute but I do not have access to any > Windows system for personal usage. So I requested in this mailing list > if so

Re: Request package updates for Poppler, Subversion and Git

Hi Achim, On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 at 17:50, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Am 22.12.2019 um 13:50 schrieb Adam Dinwoodie: > > Acknowledged for Git. I'll try and get a new release out before the new > > year. > > Keep in mind you will then have to re-do it just after the new year

Re: configured FZF call fails since update from Cygwin 3.0.7 to 3.1.2

Hi Marco, On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 09:43, Trosi, Marco wrote: > > Hello everyone and a happy new year, > > I updated recently Cygwin from 3.0.7 to 3.1.2, and now when I run "fzf" the > following happens. > > While I'm nominally the Cygwin maintainer for fzf, the upstream source has stopped suppor

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