Untidy situation regarding p11-kit packaging causing setup inconsistency

2014-03-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've noticed that on a number of occasions when attempting to update my Cygwin 32 bit installation, that amongst the list of packages for update (Download only method), libp11-kit0 is continually listed to go to version 0.18.17-1. I never noted what happened when I finally performed an

Re: Untidy situation regarding p11-kit packaging causing setup inconsistency

2014-03-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 26/03/14 13:30, Shaddy Baddah wrote: snip/ Regardless, the problem still exists. Because for whatever reason, I cannot force-ably select 0.18.7-1 in the Install (from local) run of setup.exe. I can only keep libp11-kit0 at 0.19.1-1 or uninstall. The latter triggers the dependency check

Re: Untidy situation regarding p11-kit packaging causing setup inconsistency

2014-03-25 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 26/03/14 14:06, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 26/03/14 13:30, Shaddy Baddah wrote: snip/ Regardless, the problem still exists. Because for whatever reason, I cannot force-ably select 0.18.7-1 in the Install (from local) run of setup.exe. I can only keep libp11-kit0 at 0.19.1-1

Re: [GOLDSTAR] Re: [PATCH] setup: allow running as non-admin

2013-11-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Nov 08 02:23, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:15:21PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Shaddy, On Nov 7 11:39, Shaddy Baddah wrote: 2013-11-06 Shaddy Baddah lithium-cygwin at shaddybaddah dot name * LogFile.cc (LogFile::flushAll): New function to flush

Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On Nov 04 22:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: any news? Sorry, yes. I have seen the emails (I do like cats :-D). I shouldn't offer excuses, but two concepts can explain my time deficit in the intervening period: terrible twos and various viruses (non computer). Kicked into action ;-)

Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Nov 06 22:16, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On Nov 04 22:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: any news? I still want to implement and test excluding enforced elevation as a default on XP, as I am sure it will be a nuisance. But I'll publish that as a separate patch in a couple of hours from now (I

[PATCH] setup: allow running as non-admin

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, As discussed, please find the patch to allow setup to be run as a non-admin user include clear text. -- Regards, Shaddy 2013-11-06 Shaddy Baddah lithium-cygwin at shaddybaddah dot name * LogFile.cc (LogFile::flushAll): New function to flush log all logging to files without exiting

Re: [PATCH] setup: allow running as non-admin

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Christopher, On Nov 07 11:23, Christopher Faylor wrote: This indentation looks wrong. Should I correct and republish? -- Regards, Shaddy

Re: [PATCH] setup: allow running as non-admin

2013-11-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
. +// The understanding is that pre-Vista, the runas verb will not This indentation looks wrong. Corrected with this updated patch. -- Regards, Shaddy 2013-11-06 Shaddy Baddah lithium-cygwin at shaddybaddah dot name * LogFile.cc (LogFile::flushAll): New function to flush log all logging to files without

setup Download Only deltas against an existing installation (was emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon)

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16 Aug 2013 23:14+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: OK. It seems my mirror can be trusted. It seems setup cannot be trusted. That's a little unfair actually. More that... something I assumed about setup, but also based on the assumption thought would one day cause issue is the following. When

Re: setup Download Only deltas against an existing installation (was emacs-w32 (64bit) displays generic tray icon)

2013-08-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 17 Aug 2013 00:48+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On 16 Aug 2013 23:14+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: snip/ I know in the past that PTC has been suggested. I genuinely aim to contribute when able. Everyone's busy so I won't whinge here, I'll just say that at the moment it is tough for me to do

setup(-x86_64) bug - Download Incomplete possibly due to cdrkit

2013-08-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, When attempting to Download Only using setup-x86_64.exe, allowing the default Pending selections of packages (ie. no manual selection at all) I encountered a Download Incomplete yesno dialog box (see http://imgur.com/lsoHFJE) I believe there is a bug in the handling of the unusual entry for

Re: setup(-x86_64) bug - Download Incomplete possibly due to cdrkit

2013-08-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16 Aug 2013 13:17+1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Looking at the default pending packages (http://imgur.com/9osp4rK), cdrkit was conspicuous by both its absence and listing with no binary package and only source. Sorry, I forgot to clarify that I think cdrkit accounts for the debug output

Re: Please try new setup exe's

2013-07-18 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16 Jul 2013 03:05+1000, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd appreciate it if people could try the two new setup.exe's installed at http://cygwin.com/ http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe for 32-bit This is not working for me against an existing install, where I am following a two-step process to

setup.exe Download Without Installing with multiple roots

2013-06-03 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I'm sure this is a known issue. And it is minor, but I thought it might be good to put it on record, in hope someone has a good idea for how to solve it (in UI). Cygwin setup.exe allows for install to multiple Cygwin, parallel root directories. If you wish to upgrade some packages for one

setup.exe in unattended mode. Possible problems handling dependencies

2013-05-01 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I have been trying to upgrade my cygwin package from 1.7.17-1 to 1.7.18-1 via command-line/unattended mode. This is the command line I used: setup.exe -q -s http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/sourceware/cygwin/ -R S:/cygwin/ -D -l C:/Users/Public/Downloads/cygwin_setup_area/ -P cygwin Using

setup64.exe from CVS doesn't seem to append 64bit to base URL

2013-04-24 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've finally had the time to compile setup64.exe from CVS. It doesn't seem to want to download anything. And the URL it is failing on seems to me to be missing the 64bit appendage, ahead of setup64.ini: site: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/sourceware/cygwin/ get_url_to_membuf

Re: setup64.exe from CVS doesn't seem to append 64bit to base URL

2013-04-24 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On Apr 24 22:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It doesn't seem to want to download anything. And the URL it is failing on seems to me to be missing the 64bit appendage, ahead of setup64.ini: Yes, that's a patch I applied only locally to provide a setup64 during the test phase. I know

Re: setup64.exe from CVS doesn't seem to append 64bit to base URL

2013-04-24 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Apr 24 23:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 24 23:11, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi Corinna, On Apr 24 22:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It doesn't seem to want to download anything. And the URL it is failing on seems to me to be missing the 64bit appendage, ahead of setup64.ini: Yes

setup.exe: error: ‘KEY_WOW64_{64,32}KEY’ was not declared in this scope

2013-04-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I'm encountering this error whilst trying to build (32bit) setup.exe, under 32bit Cygwin: make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/sbaddah/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-setup-build' CXX install.o ../cygwin-setup/install.cc: In function ‘void create_allow_protected_renames()’:

Re: setup.exe: error: ‘KEY_WOW64_{64,32}KEY’ was not declared in this scope

2013-04-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16/04/13 00:39, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I'm encountering this error whilst trying to build (32bit) setup.exe, under 32bit Cygwin: make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/sbaddah/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-setup-build' CXX install.o ../cygwin-setup/install.cc: In function ‘void

Re: setup.exe: error: ‘KEY_WOW64_{64,32}KEY’ was not declared in this scope

2013-04-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16/04/13 01:34, Shaddy Baddah wrote: On 16/04/13 00:39, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I'm encountering this error whilst trying to build (32bit) setup.exe, under 32bit Cygwin: make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/sbaddah/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-setup-build' CXX install.o ../cygwin

Re: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges

2013-04-04 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On Apr 3 21:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 3 17:19, Shaddy Baddah wrote: /snip Based on my limited understanding of .exe.manifest files, I believe the problem should be related to this change to Cygwin setup: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/setup.exe.manifest?rev

setup.exe now requires administrator privileges

2013-04-03 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I've just run the setup64.exe following a procedure I use to defeat UAC's privilege elevation based on the setup substring. That is I renamed it to cygpkg64.exe and ran it as a non-privileged user. I've noticed that this no longer defeats UAC, at least with 2.795 build of setup64.exe.

Re: Up for new maintainer - base-files and base-passwd

2010-09-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 09/14/2010 09:36 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 14/09/2010 10:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 14 11:07, David Sastre wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:54:05AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 13 10:33, John Morrison wrote: It is with regrets that I give up the maintainership of the

Re: uw-imap-imapd: suggestions for cyg_server issue

2010-02-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 15/02/2010 8:49 AM, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Shaddy Baddah writes: In anycase, I await a response from the uw-imap maintainer for Cygwin, Dr. Volker Zell before I do anything more. The patch I made is at least enough to get me going with imapd. Hi Shaddy, it would

Re: uw-imap-imapd: suggestions for cyg_server issue

2010-02-13 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 12/02/2010 1:29 AM, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 06:11 PM 2/11/2010, Shaddy Baddah wrote: snip The problem with this patch is, for consistency, I would have had to do the same for checkpw() in imap-2007/src/osdep/unix/ckp_cyg.c, which also assumes SYSTEM RID. This had two problems

Re: uw-imap-imapd: suggestions for cyg_server issue

2010-02-13 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 12/02/2010 11:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 11 23:11, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi Pierre, On 11/02/2010 10:39 PM, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: The problem you will run into is that 544 can be changed (e.g. to 0). It's better to do it learn it dynamically. The following is from

uw-imap-imapd: suggestions for cyg_server issue

2010-02-11 Thread Shaddy Baddah
b31382fa8c60e0ddaa0b406b0f172f5edcce3aa3 Author: Shaddy Baddah hel...@shaddybaddah.name Commit: Shaddy Baddah hel...@shaddybaddah.name Previously, only SYSTEM user is prevented from preauthentication, by emulating root if the uid matches the RID of the regular SYSTEM user. Every other owner

Re: uw-imap-imapd: suggestions for cyg_server issue

2010-02-11 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Pierre, On 11/02/2010 10:39 PM, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: The problem you will run into is that 544 can be changed (e.g. to 0). It's better to do it learn it dynamically. The following is from the cron package source code. snip Thanks for that. Yes, I have a similar patch I made in my

Re: [ITP] jikes -- IBM's Fast Java compiler adhering to language and VM specifications

2006-02-06 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2/6/2006 9:48 PM, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 2/6/2006 4:17 AM: Sorry to interject, but could I make a request that, like unison, this package be tied into a version. e.g. jikes1.14 distinct from jikes1.22? That's an

Re: [ITP] jikes -- IBM's Fast Java compiler adhering to language and VM specifications

2006-02-04 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2/4/2006 6:08 PM, Jari Aalto wrote: Current classpath won't compile with gcj (gcc 3.x included in Cygwin), so it requires jikes. Here it goes. Included in major distros: Sorry to interject, but could I make a request that, like unison, this package be tied into a version. e.g.

Re: Interested in becoming the maintainer for txt2man

2006-01-03 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 12/31/2005 10:02 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote: I'd remove the final newline from ldesc, and change sdesc to something like A script for converting flat ASCII text to man page format, since setup will prepend txt2man: to the sdesc. Also, FWIW, help2man, which performs a similar function, is

Re: Interested in becoming the maintainer for txt2man MiMMS

2006-01-03 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 12/31/2005 7:27 PM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: The mimms setup.hint would look like this: category: web requires: libpopt0 cygwin sdesc:MMS (mms://) streaming media download utility ldesc:MiMMS, formerly called mmsclient, is a simple client to download streaming audio and/or video

Interested in becoming the maintainer for txt2man

2005-12-31 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I'm interested in submitting and maintaining Marc Vertes txt2man package (http://mvertes.free.fr/). This package is also available in debian (http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/txt2man). It is a pretty small package, and I understand if it is considered to small for a stand-alone

Interested in becoming the maintainer for txt2man MiMMS

2005-12-31 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi again, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I'm interested in submitting and maintaining Marc Vertes txt2man package (http://mvertes.free.fr/). This package is also available in debian (http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/txt2man). It is a pretty small package, and I understand if it is considered