Re: [Review: no go] script-20041106-1

2004-11-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:30:54PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 01:04:56PM -0800, Andrey Butov wrote: The script command here is identical in options to the Solaris/Darwin implementation, meaning it takes the -a option

Re: posgresql

2004-11-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:58:55AM +0200, Loyiso Tyira - BCX - Networks wrote: Hi guys, I am trying to install posgresql on cygwin. I have installed postgesql and cygipc. Did the following steps 1. $ ipc-daemon 2. $ mkdir /whatever/path/pgsql 3. $ initdb -D /whatever/path/pgsql 4. $ pg_ctl -D

Re: Please upload: docbook-xsl-1.67.0-1

2004-11-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:48:56PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote: Please upload new docbook-xsl-1.67.0-1 files: http://telka.sk/cygwin/docbook-xsl/docbook-xsl-1.67.0-1-src.tar.bz2 http://telka.sk/cygwin/docbook-xsl/docbook-xsl-1.67.0-1.tar.bz2 and remove old 1.66.1-1 files. Done. cgf

Do we still have a ghostscript maintainer?

2004-11-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
I notice that there hasn't been a new release of ghostscript in some time. We need a new release to eliminate some of the lurking dependencies on the deprecated XFree86. Dario, are you still with us? If so, is there any chance that we could get a new version of ghostscript sometime soon? cgf

Re: [UPDATE] base-files

2004-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 07:37:07PM -, John Morrison wrote: Changes: 3.1-3 * Change cd ${HOME} functionality for CHERE - Dave Kilroy 3.1-2 * Fix for zsh/ksh - Tero Niemela http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/base-files-3.1-3.tar.bz2

Re: Please upload: ctetris-0.30-1

2004-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:23:31PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/ctetris/ctetris-0.30-1.tar.bz2 http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/ctetris/ctetris-0.30-1-src.tar.bz2 Done. cgf

Re: FYI: Reboot is needed after a failed setup.

2004-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:45:09PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: This would solve similar problems involving other dlls too. Are you sure? Other dll's will never get deleted. I believe only cygwin needs this special logic. Why wouldn't other DLLs get deleted? cgf

Re: [UPDATE] base-files (3.1-4)

2004-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:58:54PM -, John Morrison wrote: Changes: Wish I knew. For some reason editing it with CodeWright appears to corrupt things. Sorry. Anyway, a textually identical(?!) set of files *not* edited with CodeWright :(

Re: [UPDATE] chere-0.5-2

2004-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:06:28AM -0800, Dave wrote: Please upload at your convenience. http://www.geocities.com/d_inabox/chere-0.5-2.tar.bz2 http://www.geocities.com/d_inabox/setup.hint Done. Deleted chere-0.3-2.tar.bz2. cgf

Re: FYI: Reboot is needed after a failed setup.

2004-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 08:13:39PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:45:09PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: This would solve similar problems involving other dlls too. Are you sure? Other dll's will never get deleted. I believe only cygwin needs

Re: [UPDATE] base-files (3.1-4)

2004-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:21:26PM -, John Morrison wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:58:54PM -, John Morrison wrote: Changes: Wish I knew. For some reason editing it with CodeWright appears to corrupt things. Sorry. Anyway, a textually identical(?!) set of files *not* edited with

Re: FYI: Reboot is needed after a failed setup.

2004-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:13:48AM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Speaking of the order in which scripts are run (but unrelated to this discussion): the logic that is supposed to invoke postinstall scripts in topological order of dependencies doesn't seem to work -- instead of

Re: FYI: Reboot is needed after a failed setup.

2004-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:37:02AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:13:48AM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Speaking of the order in which scripts are run (but unrelated to this discussion): the logic

The allegation is that setup is keeping open handles around...

2004-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
...is it true? It seems like there are some valid concerns about problems with setup.exe in the cygwin mailing list and no one is addressing them. Setup.exe is too important a piece of the cygwin release for it to go unsupported. Please, someone (Max?) respond to and, if possible, investigate

Re: Do we still have a ghostscript maintainer?

2004-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:00:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I notice that there hasn't been a new release of ghostscript in some time. We need a new release to eliminate some of the lurking dependencies on the deprecated XFree86. Dario, are you still with us? If so, is there any chance

Re: The allegation is that setup is keeping open handles around...

2004-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:28:27AM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: So it looks like the package files aren't being closed somewhere. Taking a look at the source, and trying to figure out where something like this might occur, I ended up in in install.cc, where I saw the following comment in

Re: [ITP] m4

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:12:47AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: It appears, according to http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00287.html, that m4 has no a maintainer. It was last uploaded 2 years ago, and 1.4.2 has since been released with a security fix that I would like to see.

Re: (TRY 2) Re: many complaints about setup and X

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:46:04PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:47:20PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Are any of the setup.exe developers attempting to get to the bottom of the problems that have been reported lately when installing X? I see

Re: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:27:20PM -0800, Dave wrote: Hmmm. Just wonderring... Yep. OK. I see the output of stdout when setup is run from bash. It doesn't appear if running from cmd. That explains it. You must be using CYGWIN=tty then, maybe? That would explain this. Revised patch

Urgent wording change needed for setup.exe

2004-11-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
For the next setup release, can we change Download from Internet to Download from Internet Without Installing? Please? Please? cgf

Re: Urgent wording change needed for setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:05:35PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: For the next setup release, can we change Download from Internet to Download from Internet Without Installing? Agreed - how about Download Only - Do Not Install, though? I think that is a bit more attention

Re: Setup.exe Keep mode bug

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:07:17PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The setup version currently on the Cygwin web site exhibits the following behavior: in Keep mode, it was impossible to select the new version of the Cygwin package for the upgrade. I'm somehow not surprised.

Looking for a ghostscript maintainer

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:07:20AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:00:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I notice that there hasn't been a new release of ghostscript in some time. We need a new release to eliminate some of the lurking dependencies on the deprecated

Re: Packages that change without incrementing the version/release

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 05:10:53PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:14:52PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: And one important consequence of this is that packagers must *never* change files without changing the release number, once they have gone

Re: Urgent wording change needed for setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 05:17:33PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:05:35PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: For the next setup release, can we change Download from Internet to Download from Internet Without Installing? Agreed - how

Re: Packages that change without incrementing the version/release

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 05:39:26PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: setup.ini is always correct. If the package changed in setup.ini, that should not trigger a download unless the user specifically asks for it. I don't see any reason to check md5sums for packages that aren't

Re: Copyright year, year, ... statements in setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:23:51PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: The Copyright year, year, ... have been somewhat neglected so far as adding additional years in concerned. Additionally, some are Red Hat, Inc., and others are individual contributors. I could use some advice on whether it is

Re: Copyright year, year, ... statements in setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 07:31:29PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:23:51PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: The Copyright year, year, ... have been somewhat neglected so far as adding additional years in concerned. Additionally, some are Red Hat, Inc

Re: Urgent wording change needed for setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 09:20:32PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert McNulty Junior wrote: Change the behavior so Setup does not install immieadly after you download the Distribution. I see this in every scenario since it first came out. That dang Install from Internet is there every time. Its

Re: procmail: Suspicious rcfile .procmailrc

2004-11-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 02:22:43PM +0100, Hanspeter Roth wrote: when running fetchmail each mail message produces a messages like this: Nachricht [EMAIL PROTECTED]:21 von 21 wird gelesen (6256 Oktetts) ..procmail: Suspicious rcfile /home/user/.procmailrc procmail: Couldn't read

Re: Missing mail

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:02:07PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: Chris (and whoever else might be concerned), I sent a message to this list a couple of days ago, and it still hasn't appeared. No bounce message, no retry message. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Was it a victim of the spam filtering for some

Re: anyone paying attention to bugzilla?

2004-11-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:41:46PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: Is anyone besides Max paying attention to bugzilla? Reini and you? ;-) Yeah, and if Corinna was here, she'd probably be contributing, too. I'm not exactly contributing. I just am

Re: anyone paying attention to bugzilla?

2004-11-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:52:09PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: This is an old bugzilla. Queries about the bugzilla on sourceware can be sent to overseers at sourceware.org. For the record, I have *nothing* to do with its administration. cgf

Periodic request for cygwin-announce posters

2004-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
Please include unsubscribe instructions in your messages. (As to why this isn't done automatically, check the archives) Also, new observation -- if you are going to include the don't send me private email clause in your message -- a good idea -- then it doesn't make much sense to include your

Re: Please upload: docbook-xsl-1.67.2-1

2004-12-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 04:58:59PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote: Please upload new docbook-xsl-1.67.2-1 files: http://telka.sk/cygwin/docbook-xsl/docbook-xsl-1.67.2-1-src.tar.bz2 http://telka.sk/cygwin/docbook-xsl/docbook-xsl-1.67.2-1.tar.bz2 and remove buggy 1.67.1-1 files. Done. cgf

Re: Please upload: docbook-xsl-1.67.2-1

2004-12-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:23:05AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 04:58:59PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote: Please upload new docbook-xsl-1.67.2-1 files: http://telka.sk/cygwin/docbook-xsl/docbook-xsl-1.67.2-1-src.tar.bz2 http://telka.sk/cygwin/docbook-xsl/docbook-xsl-1.67.2

Re: Please upload: docbook-xsl-1.67.2-1

2004-12-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:02:16PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 04:11:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:23:05AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 04:58:59PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote: Please upload new docbook-xsl

Re: [Package Update] HTML Tidy 041206-1

2004-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:51:03PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I updated HTML Tidy to latest version I found today. As usual many small bug fixes, but difficult to tell as the site is lacking a Changelog. This releases includes docs and tests dated

Re: setup.exe sucks

2004-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:58:41PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: As loath as I am to admit it, I think that setup.exe should be scrapped in favor of one of the other setup projects out there. We just aren't doing a good job of keeping up in the innovation or the tech

Re: setup.exe sucks

2004-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:17:55PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:48:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:37:36PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I believe that it was always Robert's intention to work towards the use

Re: setup.exe sucks

2004-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:50:36PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:17:55PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:48:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:37:36PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher

Re: setup.exe sucks

2004-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:25:11PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: That's right. RPM does not have Recommends, and that would be nice. It isn't designed to be UI based, though. Is this a real problem? Wouldn't the eventual solution still have to have a setup.ini-like file

Re: setup.exe sucks

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:52:30PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: BTW: There is new Conectiva packager, which should be the best, and builds out of the box. http://zorked.net/smart/FAQ.html Requires python. Works with .rpm, .deb and pkgtool files and up2date- and Conectiva-style mirror description

Re: Updated: diffstat 1.35

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:28:28AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: New upstream release, no change to setup.hint (1.34 can stay as the previous version). Please upload: http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/diffstat-1.35-1.tar.bz2 http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/diffstat-1.35-1-src.tar.bz2 Uploaded.

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:24:14PM -, John Morrison wrote: I'm *fairly* sure that all the variables that need to be escaped have been. The only ones that haven't should be PATH, MANPATH and INFOPATH as per a thread a few weeks ago. ? Can you point to a URL for this discussion? I can't

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
John Morrison, would you mind doing this, please? cgf Sheesh. You can't trust anything THAT guy says. He can't even remember conversations from a month or two ago. Sorry. Nevemind. You don't want me to upload this to sourceware.org, right? cgf

Re: [Package Update] HTML Tidy 041206-1

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:22:06PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: File are, as usual, there: I've grabbed these two packages. I guess this counts as an upload, as the file are on the mirror? =) I suspect that you can check mirrors every bit as easily as I can. cgf

Re: setup.exe sucks

2004-12-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 05:25:09PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Warren Young wrote: stop running services before starting the upgrade. Thinking more about it, couldn't you just call LoadLibrary() on the full path to cygwin.dll, and if that succeeds, get the process list from it and send out kill

Re: Regarding mail from Jean-Sebastien Trott from Fri 15 Oct Interest in native Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?

2004-12-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:07:58PM +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: Yes, I am highly interested in native tcl/tk and native expect/expectk for cygwin, I need it, for example, for android. As I have seen it, application expectk.exe was sucessfully built by Jean-Sebastien. So my question is where

Re: Looking for a ghostscript maintainer

2004-12-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:56:34PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 03:32:57AM -0800, Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote: I can try to make version 8.15 for Cygwin. I've followed Dario's Readme doc and have been able to get

Re: directx-headers

2004-12-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
:17:03PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: From Christopher Faylor: Is there really no hope of getting these into w32api? Uhm, directx lives already in w32api. See w32api/include/directx and w32api/lib/directx. Patches to those should be submitted to http://sourceforge.net/tracker

Re: Looking for a ghostscript maintainer

2004-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 06:59:41AM -0800, Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote: Hi, I've packaged ghostscript-8.15 and tested it (used gv on examples/*). Some points ... 1. This can remove the (last?) dependency on XFree86-lib-compat. TeXmacs needs lib-compat, but it is probably due to ghostscript.

Re: Please upload: ec-fonts-mftraced-1.0.8-1

2004-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:05:26PM +0100, Bertalan Fodor wrote: sdesc: EC PostScript Type1 fonts with TFMs for TeX category: Publishing requires: tetex-bin tetex-tiny ldesc: These are PostScript Type1 renderings and TFMs of the EC variants of the standard TeX CMR font family. These fonts include

Re: Looking for a ghostscript maintainer

2004-12-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 03:32:57AM -0800, Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote: I can try to make version 8.15 for Cygwin. I've followed Dario's Readme doc and have been able to get a working ghostscript-8.15. I shall do some basic testing package it. Thank you! Much appareciated. FWIW, my personal

Re: Updated: diffstat 1.37-1

2004-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:31:54PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: New upstream release (including a patch from me), no change to setup.hint. Please delete 1.34-1, leaving 1.35-1 as prev, and upload 1.37-1 as the new current: http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/diffstat-1.37-1.tar.bz2

Re: [package update] gnupg 1.2.6-1

2004-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:36:49PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: There is already a gnupg 1.4.0 upstream, but I just finished this one. Please upload. http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/gnupg/setup.hint http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/gnupg/gnupg-1.2.6-1.tar.bz2

Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?

2004-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
We REALLY need to get setup fixed. Is there any hope that you are close to getting this fixed, Max? cgf

Re: Updated: ghostscript-8.15

2004-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:31:47AM -0800, Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote: I've uploaded the files at my colleague, Mahendra's site. I'm sorry but if you can't find a reliable place that can be used for package retrieval, I don't know how you can be an effective package maintainer. Are you going to be

Re: Updated: ghostscript-8.15

2004-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:31:47AM -0800, Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote: I've uploaded the files at my colleague, Mahendra's site. Version 8.15-1 may be marked as test, since it is a major release and my first attempt at packaging a release. The .hint says curr though. The files are at ...

Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?

2004-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 04:43:38PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: We REALLY need to get setup fixed. Is there any hope that you are close to getting this fixed, Max? I've finally managed to reproduce it! (today) Let's see what tonight's debugging brings to light. Woo hoo

Re: setup.hint coreutils editing (was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.2.1-3)

2004-12-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 01:52:40PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Do you think we should edit the setup.hints of packages that call for one or more of the old packages to now require coreutils directly? Yes, good point. I've swept through the setup.hints, changed all of the

Re: cygwin-apps link documentation unclear

2004-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:23:57PM -0800, John Sellers wrote: At http://cygwin.com/lists.html are the instructions for using the mailing lists. The directions for cygwin-apps reads: cygwin-apps http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/: a subscriber-only list for discussing packaging issues regarding

[bismuti: setup.exe hanging]

2004-12-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
- Forwarded message from Peter Bismuti [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Peter Bismuti To: cygwin-xfree Subject: setup.exe hanging Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 04:41:46 -0800 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Whenever I run setup, it always hangs at a point where it says it is 99% finished

Re: Re: nfs-server 2.2.47-2

2004-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 02:22:46PM +0100, rseku wrote: I don't know if I am sending this info correctly(I am new to cygwin, and web page doesn'r explain how to post message) The web page does mention not to send bug reports or how do I message to this list, though. It is pretty clear about that.

Re: New Package Proposal

2004-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 06:41:18PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: The Debian package maintainer has written a man page for it which I would include with proper acknowledgement. Could you provide a URL which shows that this package is an official part of Debian? cgf

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2005-01-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:29:51PM -, John Morrison wrote: Given my track record so far, Bah, given the amount of threads you participate in I think you are being too hard on yourself! I think it would be best if someone else ok'ed these. :-) As you wish :) Apparently no one has the

Re: [RFU] bc-1.06-2 [Was: bc and readline]

2005-01-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:41:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I've unpacked source and binary packages and they are both ok from what I can tell. What's missing is a setup.hint file which adds the new dependencies and Chris' final goodbye to the package. bc is simple and problem-free enough

Move nfs-server, emacs-leim out of test (was Re: 3 Packages always Skipped)

2005-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
Is it time to move the two packages below out of test? I've made an empty package for regex so that it will do nothing but delete any previous installation. Should the other two packages become curr? It's a little odd to have a package with nothing but a test version. cgf - Forwarded

Re: Move nfs-server, emacs-leim out of test (was Re: 3 Packages always Skipped)

2005-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:21:02PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: Is it time to move the two packages below out of test? I've made an empty package for regex so that it will do nothing but delete any previous installation. I had completely forgotten that nfs-server was only in test. Yes, please -

Re: Proposal to add and maintain the epstool package

2005-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:20:50PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have source and binary packages available, but am unable to test setup.hint due to the non-availability of upset. The format of setup.ini is easy enough to understand. You don't need a special program to test this.

Re: [package update] remove test status of gnupg 1.4.0-2

2005-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:42:19PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: After getting some confirmations that gnupg 1.4.0 also seems to work for other users I'd like to promote it from test to current. This http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/gnupg/setup.hint is the new setup.hint. Please delete the

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2005-01-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:08:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:29:51PM -, John Morrison wrote: Given my track record so far, Bah, given the amount of threads you participate in I think you are being too hard on yourself! I think it would be best if someone

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2005-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:21:15AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS, do you need the URL's again? Nope. The new base files have been uploaded. I've removed base-files-3.0-3.tar.bz2. cgf

Re: fortune-1.99.1

2005-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:43:12PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Oh, yes, the package itself looks ok to me. I'll upload it after you, Yitzchak, have said a word about the sdesc. And once uploaded, a couple of well-deserved gold stars would be appropriate. cgf

Re: fortune-1.99.1

2005-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:33:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 13 15:16, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:43:12PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Igor, did you already throw a couple of gold stars in Yitzchak's direction? If not, it's about time ;-) Done. I hope I got

Re: bsdgames

2005-01-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:59:10PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Is there any interest in a bsdgames package? Most of the games to compile with very little in the way of modifications needed. If so, ought it to be all one package, or one per game? How are they packaged elsewhere? cgf

Do we still have an rxvt maintainer?

2005-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
We haven't had an rxvt release in almost a year and rxvt questions seem to go unanswered on the cygwin list. Do we still have an rxvt maintainer? I notice that Steve O does not seem to be subscribed to the cygwin-apps mailing list. cgf

Re: Do we still have an rxvt maintainer?

2005-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:54:37AM -0800, Steve O wrote: Hi cgf, I haven't been keeping up with the cygwin list. I get an occasional rxvt related email and try to help out, but otherwise I've been happy with how rxvt works and haven't paid much attention to it. What's up? The complaint that

Re: Ported ping

2005-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 06:22:26PM -, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: Hi! I have ported the original ping and have a package ready to submit (thanks to Volker Zell). Here goes the setup.hint: category: System Net requires: cygwin sdesc: A basic network tool to test IP network conectivity

Re: Ported ping

2005-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:38:45AM -, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: wget http://www.omeusite.com/cygwin/ping-1.0-1.tar.bz2 --16:21:20-- http://www.omeusite.com/cygwin/ping-1.0-1.tar.bz2 = `ping-1.0-1.tar.bz2.1' Resolving www.omeusite.com

Re: Ported ping

2005-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:30:18PM -, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I can get setup.hint but not ping-1.0-1.tar.bz2. cgf Ok, I've tar'ed all 3 files into a file named ping.tar. The server was having problems dealing with multiple dots on the file name. I've

Re: Ported ping

2005-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:18:53PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:30:18PM -, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I can get setup.hint but not ping-1.0-1.tar.bz2. Ok, I've tar'ed all 3 files into a file named ping.tar. The server was having

Re: Ported ping

2005-01-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:57:41PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:18:53PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:30:18PM -, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I can get setup.hint but not ping-1.0-1.tar.bz2. Ok, I've

Re: Ported ping

2005-01-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:32:13PM -, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I still haven't seen an announcement about ping? Lino, could you send one as soon as possible? Sorry, the company email server had some problems. I've sent it today to cygwin-annouce. I saw

tetex maintainer take note (was Re: setup.hint coreutils editing (was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.2.1-3))

2005-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 09:18:18PM -0500, Steve Munson wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:45:07 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Yes, good point. I've swept through the setup.hints, changed all of the fileutils|sh-utils|textutils to 'coreutils', and removed duplicates. ... AFAICT, my list

Re: Apache/PHP maintainership

2005-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:37:40AM +0100, Stipe Tolj wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 24 23:55, Brian Dessent wrote: So, unfortunately I throw in the towel on this one. I think I've posted the patches to this list that I had made, which would be a starting point if anyone else feels up to

Re: wget postinstall and setup

2005-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:31:01PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: The wget postinstall is doing a cp. As discussed earlier, a cp does not preserve the ACL and any cp done in a postinstall script must be accompanied by a touch to create the new file before copying unto it (see e.g. as in

Re: wget postinstall and setup (MAXB please take note)

2005-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:07:13PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:31:01PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: The wget postinstall is doing a cp. As discussed earlier, a cp does not preserve the ACL and any cp done in a postinstall script

Re: wget postinstall and setup (MAXB please take note)

2005-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:40:28PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Do I wait a few days to allow the maintainers to check/change their postinstalls, or do I release a new setup tonight? It doesn't sound like there's any reason to wait. BTW, the permissions on setup.exe on sourceware are such that

Re: wget postinstall and setup (MAXB please take note)

2005-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:25:31PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:40:28PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Do I wait a few days to allow the maintainers to check/change their postinstalls, or do I release a new setup tonight? It doesn't sound like there's

Re: new package: mined text editor

2005-02-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:06:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have released version 2000.10 of my editor mined. I had proposed it as a cygwin package last year and got the votes and a package review. This is a new version and I

Re: new package: mined text editor

2005-02-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:31:07AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I remember correctly, I would have to wait until the package shows up in the distribution (being uploaded by you or some other kind maintainer) and then send a message to cygwin-announce, right? Uploaded.

Re: new package: mined text editor

2005-02-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:10:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: If I remember correctly, I would have to wait until the package shows up in the distribution (being uploaded by you or some other kind maintainer) and then send a message to cygwin-announce, right? No. You send a message after

Re: corrupted files: docbook, lintntl1

2005-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:12:31PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Marcel Telka wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 01:49:41PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Could the package maintainers for the packages in the subject provide a URL where I can fix this problem? Apparently I wasn't paying attention

Re: Please upload: email-2.3.2-1

2005-02-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:32:12AM -0800, Ross Smith II wrote: Hi. Please upload new email-2.3.2-1 files: http://smithii.com/files/cygwin/email/email-2.3.2-1.tar.bz2 http://smithii.com/files/cygwin/email/email-2.3.2-1-src.tar.bz2 I uploaded these.

Re: Update: perl-Win32-GUI, perl-libwin32

2005-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:44:19AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: @ perl-Win32-GUI To quote from http://cygwin.com/setup.html : A line that begins with a @ behaves similarly to the setup.ini field (see below). It overrides the package name for the enclosing directory. This is an optional

Re: update: mathomatic-12.1-1

2005-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:15:54PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Hello, Please update to mathomatic-12.1-1. Note: setup.hint has changed. But no prev and no test. http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/mathomatic/mathomatic-12.1-1.tar.bz2

Re: update: clamav-0.83-1

2005-02-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:36:28PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Hello, Please update to clamav-0.83-1. Note: setup.hint has changed. prev is 0.80-2 http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/clamav/clamav-0.83-1.tar.bz2

Re: Header files for Windows OpenLDAP client

2005-02-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:23:07PM -0800, Sangita Mohan wrote: I downloaded the client library for Windows using Cygwin. I got a bunch of dll files cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll cyglber-2-2-7.dll cygldap-2-2-7.dll cygldap_r-2-2-7.dll cygminires.dll cygsasl2-2.dll cygssl-0.9.7.dll Basically I am upgrading

Re: Please upload: email-2.3.2-2

2005-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:33:57PM -0800, Ross Smith II wrote: Hi. Please upload new email-2.3.2-2 files: http://smithii.com/files/cygwin/email/email-2.3.2-2.tar.bz2 http://smithii.com/files/cygwin/email/email-2.3.2-2-src.tar.bz2 This version fixes the fact that installing email-2.3.2-1 would

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