Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 28 10:36, peterpan1616 wrote: I'm a problem with setup.exe Wrong mailing list. Use the cygwin AT cygwin DOT com user list for questions like this. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin

Download Cygwin once and intall it several times

2008-07-28 Thread peterpan1616
I'm a problem with setup.exe If I download on a pc in a local directory using setup.exe all the distribution of cygwin and that install it (using always setup.exe) at the end of the installation I obtain a bash shell running. If I copy the same directory on another pc an run setup.exe at the

Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Obsolete packages

2008-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 27 21:20, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: | It seems like maybe another change to setup.exe would be in order here | or maybe there could be a base package which did any cleanup required to | purge unneeded packages. Could setup-1.7 know if the last installation

base-[files|password] for 1.7 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2)))

2008-07-28 Thread John Morrison
On Tue, July 22, 2008 6:42 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You can now call mkpasswd and mkgroup without any -l or -d parameter and both tools choose by themselves what information to print, depending on the machine being a domain member machine or not. This should result in a matching

Re: base-[files|password] for 1.7 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2)))

2008-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 28 15:51, John Morrison wrote: On Tue, July 22, 2008 6:42 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You can now call mkpasswd and mkgroup without any -l or -d parameter and both tools choose by themselves what information to print, depending on the machine being a domain member machine or

Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Obsolete packages

2008-07-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Could setup-1.7 know if the last installation was 1.5, and simply ignore the installed.db? As outlined in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-04/msg00169.html the way that it will work is entirely dependent on what you enter for the root location. It will start

[RFC] 1.7 Packaging: X11

2008-07-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Our X11R6 hasn't been updated in almost three years now. Since then, X.org has moved to a modular R7 where each library, executable, font set, etc. have their own autotooled package. It seems that our X11 is used for two different things: 1) to

Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: X11

2008-07-28 Thread Reini Urban
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) schrieb: So what I think we need is a co-maintainership. I can handle the packaging and client-side issues, and other(s) can help port XWin and handle server-side issues. Yaakov++ Great, we owe you a beer, or two!

Re: base-[files|password] for 1.7

2008-07-28 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:27 AM Subject: Re: base-[files|password] for 1.7 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2))) | On Jul 28 15:51, John Morrison

Re: base-[files|password] for 1.7 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2)))

2008-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:27:50PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 28 15:51, John Morrison wrote: On Tue, July 22, 2008 6:42 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You can now call mkpasswd and mkgroup without any -l or -d parameter and both tools choose by themselves what information to