Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:02:48AM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: But taking a close look at article.db, it seems everything that goes to ports.html was or is in index.html ? articles.db is the master source for the software and news. You can always check the web pages out via cvs if you

Re: [setup] ini in same dir as package - 'base' is one off. (+ patch)

2004-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:35:37PM +0100, Bas van Gompel wrote: BTW: On the website, would not it be wise to move the links for preblem-reporting and the mailing-lists _after_ the links for documentation, FAQ, contributing and news? Did you read the very first line of the problems web page? If

Re: ITP moratorium

2004-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 07:55:17PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:02:48AM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: But taking a close look at article.db, it seems everything that goes to ports.html

Re: Coreutils musings...

2004-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:01:12AM -0500, Mark Blackburn wrote: I tried compiling coreutils-5.2.0 and I didn't see many problems with that. Another problem I see is that coreutils will cause conflicts with other packages: textutils, sh-utils and fileutils. Obviously coreutils is intended to

Re: Coreutils musings...

2004-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:17:30AM -0500, Mark Blackburn wrote: Mark Blackburn wrote: I tried compiling coreutils-5.2.0 and I didn't see many problems with that. Another problem I see is that coreutils will cause conflicts with other packages: textutils, sh-utils and fileutils. Obviously

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:45:44AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: There are also some patches I'm considering adding from fileutils-4.1-2 (proposed-fileutils-patches.txt). I got these by diffing fileutils-4.1 with the src package for fileutils-4.1-2. I was hoping that

Re: .rdata section in cygwin executables?

2004-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:28:02AM -0500, Joe Buehler wrote: Egor Duda wrote: You may write your own linker script so that all rdata section will be put to .data when emacs.exe is linked, but again, it doesn't look as the proper way to deal with the problem. According to objdump, there is no

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:54:00PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: textutils. Those three have been combined into a single set of utilities called the coreutils. category: Base requires: cygwin libiconv2 libint ^^^ This is fine for testing, but don't

Re: Can I use the library of cygwin such as GSL in Visual C++ in Windows directly?

2004-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:09:36PM +, bonjour online wrote: Now I want to use GSL library of Cygwin in Visual C++ in Windows directly. Is there any method to do it? Thank you very much. Please use the main cygwin mailing list for these type of questions. I've redirected this email there.

*** warning package libXft1 refers to non-existent external-source: libXft

2004-03-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
upset: *** warning package libXft1 refers to non-existent external-source: libXft Maybe upset just caught a snapshot of a work in progress but I'm forwarding this message along just in case since I'm going to bed. cgf

Re: Pending Packages List, 2004-03-13

2004-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 01:59:58PM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: |I'd like to propose that if someone's ITP'd package has outstanding |issues, that someone cannot ITP any new packages until either the issues |are addressed or the package is withdrawn. I understand your

Re: Pending Packages List, 2004-03-13

2004-03-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:36:43PM -, John Morrison wrote: From: Christopher Faylor I don't know. I think I like Igor's more draconian approach better. I might even go so far as to say that there should be only one ITP at a time unless there is a demonstrated need for other interrelated

Re: Heads Up: cygwin/X no longer dependent on cygipc

2004-03-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:05:10PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: I recompiled and posted a new build of the Cygwin/X package that were previously dependent on cygipc against cygserver instead. All setup.hint files for Cygwin/X packages and other X packages maintained by myself (not requiring

Re: ANNOUNCE: cygbug - generic bug reporting tool (like Debian reportbug)

2004-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:06:04PM +0200, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: This is 2nd version of the cygbug/reportbug utility for Cygwin. It has been modeled after Debian reportbug(1) and includes almost all its features including A WNPP pseudo bug reports. See further below what WNPPs are.

Re: ANNOUNCE: cygbug - generic bug reporting tool (like Debian reportbug)

2004-03-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:10:03PM +0200, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: It can be used to deliver messages to upstream developers concerning cygwin related bugs. It can also be used to send patches to other Cugwin developer (I just sent one to ssmtp maintainer). The ssmtp maintainer? So in other

Re: ANNOUNCE: cygbug - generic bug reporting tool (like Debian reportbug)

2004-03-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:16:57PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 23 10:28, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:10:03PM +0200, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: It can be used to deliver messages to upstream developers concerning cygwin related bugs. It can also be used to send

Re: ANNOUNCE: cygbug - generic bug reporting tool (like Debian reportbug)

2004-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:28:09PM -, Chris January wrote: * Tue 2004-03-23 Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA AT public.gmane.org * | On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:10:03PM +0200, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: | | It can be used to deliver messages

Re: setup.exe development stalled?

2004-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:29:36PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Robert Collins schrieb: On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 08:07, Christopher Faylor wrote: At the very least, it would be nice to get out a new release which resized correctly. I know that the current implementation isn't perfect but I wonder

Re: A new method of storing package data base information, proposing packages, and announcing updates

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 02:17:45PM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: Currently, only my tools use the XML format. All of the utilities that deal with setup.ini, including the most important utility--setup.exe itself--only use the structured-text format found in current setup.hint files. The proposal was

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made that clear. I'd like to explore new methods for getting packages into the

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:23:42PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:30:51PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, GARY VANSICKLE wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I'd also like to see a formal justification for why a package should be included, remembering that we have a

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:27:01PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made

Re: On forming a SC [was Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?]

2004-03-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:02:55PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote: cgf wrote: I'd like to explore new methods for getting packages into the distribution, however. Possibly we need a gdb packages steering committee which decides on these things. It could have rules like a package needs a simple

[Cron cgf cd /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin; /sourceware/infra/bin/cygwin/upset -C -u setup.ini; /usr/local/bin/upx -q -q -q setup.exe || exit 0]

2004-03-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
- Forwarded message from Cron Daemon - From: (Cron Daemon) To: cgf Subject: Cron cd /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin; /sourceware/infra/bin/cygwin/upset -C -u setup.ini; /usr/local/bin/upx -q -q -q setup.exe || exit 0 Date: 28 Mar 2004 22:20:10 - upset: *** warning package

Re: On forming a SC [was Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?]

2004-03-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:41:54AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 28 17:24, Christopher Faylor wrote: I can't speak for Corinna, but I would rather *not* have to be the bad guy or a single (double?) point of contact. I would rather have more community involvement. I'm already drowning

Re: setup.exe development stalled?

2004-03-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 09:49:08AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: --- Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the very least, it would be nice to get out a new release which resized correctly. I know that the current implementation isn't perfect but I wonder if it is better than

Re: Status on coreutils?

2004-04-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:12:22PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 2 08:02, Mark Blackburn wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Huh? What should be the reason for this? The recursive commands from fileutils are runnning fine under 1.5.9. And I have a local build of coreutils which also

Re: ITP: leafnode

2004-04-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 06:22:53PM +0300, A. Alper ATICI wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:17:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 1. Leafnode relies on hard-link counts, so current implementation of hlinks on FAT32 breaks it. News spool has to be on NTFS, and it seems this will be an

Re: ITP: leafnode

2004-04-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:16:53PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 06:22:53PM +0300, A. Alper ATICI wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:17:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 1. Leafnode relies on hard-link counts, so current

Re: exim-4.31-1 available for upload

2004-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 07:43:51AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: exim 4.31-1 is available for upload. Please keep 4.30-2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.31-1/exim-4.31-1-src.tar.bz2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.31-1/exim-4.31-1.tar.bz2

Re: ITP: leafnode

2004-04-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 10:25:42PM +0300, A. Alper ATICI wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:55:52AM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote: To diverge, and I know Corinna will tell me to submit a patch, but I think the problem this raises is worth discussing. Even if we are using NT/2k/XP/2k3, we still

xorg-x11-* problems -- general request to people who upload

2004-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:14:18AM -, Cron Daemon wrote: upset: *** warning package XFree86-base requires non-existent package xorg-x11-base upset: *** warning package XFree86-bin requires non-existent package xorg-x11-bin upset: *** warning package XFree86-etc requires non-existent package

Re: xorg-x11-* problems -- general request to people who upload

2004-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:33:32AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: --- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another general request -- please don't mess with setup.ini. Don't move it out of the way, edit it, etc. It is auto-generated. Anything done to it is apt to cause problems

Two new categories created. Comment needed

2004-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
Harold Hunt has just, without any discussion here, created two new categories. One is understandable and probably doesn't require discussion. He's changed XFree86 to X11. Oddly enough, XFree86 isn't currently listed as a category in setup.html so I've added X11 to the list of supported

Re: Two new categories created. Comment needed

2004-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 04:38:37PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Harold Hunt has just, without any discussion here, created two new categories. One is understandable and probably doesn't require discussion. I actually created ZZZRemovedPackages at least a month or more

Re: UUCP?

2004-04-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 02:40:39PM -0700, John Hardin wrote: Is anybody maintaining a UUCP package these days? This is the wrong mailing list for this question. If not, is there an old UUCP package knocking around anywhere that would give me a starting place for bringing it current? See above.

Re: lilypond 2.2.0-1 available

2004-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 08:51:30PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Volker Zell writes: It seems the info pages are installed under /usr/share/info/lilypond instead of /usr/share/info Yes, as intended. Why is this? That's a variation from the way other info users work. cgf

Re: lilypond 2.2.0-1 available

2004-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:17:45PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: Why is this? It's because of the gazillion images/image links. You don't want those in /usr/share/info? image/image links? In /usr/share/info? drwxr-xr-x berti/mkgroup-l-d 0 2004-04-15 15

Re: lilypond 2.2.0-1 available

2004-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:03:14AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: image/image links? In /usr/share/info? No images? You found a packaging bug, I guess. $ dpkg -L lilypond-doc | grep info.*png /usr/share/info/lilypond/baer-flat-bw.png /usr/share/info

Re: A new method of storing ... (was: Re: [ITP] re2c)

2004-05-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:18:40PM -0400, Daniel Reed wrote: On 2004-05-13T23:22+0100, Max Bowsher wrote: ) Gerrit P. Haase wrote: ) Hallo, ) ) want to maintain re2c: http://re2c.org/ ) ) # re2c setup.hint ) @ re2c ) No need for the above 2 lines. Actually, starting sometime soon the @

apache maintainership probation

2004-05-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
Given that there have been discussions about apache in both the cygwin and cygwin-apps mailing list without any response from the apache maintainer, I am again officially announcing that apache maintainership will be up for grabs unless there is some activity by Wednesday (2004-05-12) of next

Re: A new method of storing ... (was: Re: [ITP] re2c)

2004-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:19:07AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:18:40PM -0400, Daniel Reed wrote: On 2004-05-13T23:22+0100, Max Bowsher wrote: ) Gerrit P. Haase wrote: ) Hallo, ) ) want to maintain re2c: http

Re: [ITP] neon (A WebDAV library required by Subversion)

2004-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 02:21:38PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: sdesc: Neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface. As per http://cygwin.com/setup.html, please don't include the name of the package in sdesc. This will appear as neon: Neon is an... in setup,

Attention all package maintainers (was Re: [ITP] neon (A WebDAV library required by Subversion))

2004-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 10:11:28PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 02:21:38PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: sdesc: Neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface. As per http://cygwin.com/setup.html, please don't include the name

Re: [ITP] neon (A WebDAV library required by Subversion)

2004-05-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:34:49AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Packaging looks good to me. +1 from me. I'm curious to see subversion on Cygwin. Ditto on both counts. cgf

Re: [PATCH] for generic-build-script

2004-05-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:52:04PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo cygwin-apps, --- generic-build-script~ 2004-05-19 15:49:55.827961600 +0200 +++ generic-build-script2004-05-19 15:49:41.196923200 +0200 @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ fi ;\ done \ if [ -d

Re: libtool, automake, gettext updates?

2004-05-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:21:34AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello Charles, still on vacation? Ha ha ha ha ha ha hee hee... No, not exactly a vacation, unless you consider 80+ hours/week on the job a vacation. Hopefully that's winding down this week, so I'll take a

Re: Updated: antiword-0.34-1 (was: Re: antiword-0.34)

2004-06-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:33:55PM -0400, Daniel Reed wrote: On 2003-10-10T13:25+0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: ) Daniel schrieb: ) On 2003-10-08T12:33+0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: ) ) Otherwise the package is good to go, IMO. ) ) Igor ) Just went to push and the last check didn't find a

Re: New maintainer for cURL? (belated kudos)

2004-06-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
[This email was bounced due to a change in my email address. It looks like we may have a maintainer for curl but I wanted to get the rest of this message into the record.] On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:23:05AM -0400, Roth, Kevin P. wrote: I'm no longer interested in taking care of the cURL package;

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2004-06-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:02:04PM -0700, Monte Hayward wrote: I've read this thread, but the create root scripts did not work. cygcheck_svr.txt attached. Does someone have an idea what I might be missing? Details below. Thanks kindly. Wrong mailing list. Use the main cygwin list for bug

Re: [ITP] lcms-1.13-1

2004-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 05:07:32PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello, I want to contribute/maintain lcms. Homepage: http://www.littlecms.com/ It is used as color management engine in many projects, e.g. Libmng, Scribus, Inkscape. category: Graphics Libs requires: cygwin libjpeg62 libtiff4

Re: [ITP] libmng-1.0.6-1

2004-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 05:59:34PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello, I want to contribute/maintain libmng. Homepage: http://www.libmng.com/ libmng - Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) Reference Library 1.0.6 Requires the recently ITPed lcms package. DESCRIPTION The libmng library

Please include unsubscribe information in announcement email

2004-06-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
I hesitate to enforce a standard template for all announcements but I really would like to see people start including unsubscribe instructions in their announcement email. Please do me a favor and include unsubscribe instructions in your announcement email. Please just copy the few lines that I

Re: My pending ITPs / votes reviews wanted

2004-06-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:32:12PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: More ITPs to follow. Looking also for helpers. Target is to get all (or most) base libraries into the net release so one could try to build GUI applications that don't need a full blown GNOME desktop (e.g. Abiword, DIA, GIMP,

Re: [ITP] subversion

2004-06-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:15:09PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 9 11:15, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Accordingly, I hereby ITP subversion: I vote pro. I missed this program already several times and it was not able to simply build it OOTB the first time I tried. IIRC, this makes 2 pro

Re: My pending ITPs / votes reviews wanted

2004-06-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:02:25PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I thought that is where you were going with this. Please consider yourself +1'ed for any of these packages that I haven't voted on already. BTW, I sent already announcements for lcms and libmng, but they don't show up at the list,

Re: My pending ITPs 2. update

2004-06-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
+1 on all of the below that I haven't already voted on. cgf On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 06:52:35PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello All, my pending ITP summary 2. update: Still not enough votes: Package: glib-2.4.2-1 http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-06/msg00081.html Votes :

Re: [ITP] glib-2.4.2-1

2004-06-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:45:32PM -0400, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: | I want to contribute/maintain glib. | Canonical website: http://www.gtk.org/ +1 from me. | Runtime package setup.hint: | === | category: Libs | requires: cygwin libiconv2 libintl2 | sdesc: low-level core

Re: New Package: libmng-1.6.0-1 (thank you)

2004-06-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 06:33:56PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: = To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified

Re: [ITP] (audiofile, libaudiofile0, libaudiofile-devel)-0.2.6-1

2004-06-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 06:12:35PM -0400, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: I would like to contribute audiofile to the Cygwin net distro. This is a prereq for esound, which is needed by libgnome-2. Cool. Assume that any standard gnome app or library has a +1 from me. cgf

Re: [Cygnome2-devel] Re: My pending ITPs / votes reviews wanted

2004-06-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
wouldn't want this to be a stumbling block. How does Red Hat manage to avoid using /opt, though? Do they just patch the heck out of everything. -- Christopher Faylor spammer? - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin Co-Project Leader[EMAIL PROTECTED] TimeSys

Re: Requesting vote / review for submitted package

2004-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:26:05PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how this voting and package acceptance process would be working. I had proposed my Unicode and CJK capable text editor with message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00202.html and there was 1 vote pro

Re: [PACKAGE UPDATE]: grace-5.1.14-2

2004-06-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:35:09PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: Once LessTif 0.93.94 is no longer marked test this package will become the current version. Harold just did this, can someone please upload/change the setup.hint file? URL: http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/grace/setup.hint (or

Gerrit take note. Missing packages

2004-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
- Forwarded message from Cron Daemon - upset: *** warning package gtk2-x11-devel refers to non-existent external-source: gtk2-x11 upset: *** warning package gtk2-x11-doc refers to non-existent external-source: gtk2-x11 upset: *** warning package gtk2-x11-runtime requires non-existent

Re: Gerrit take note. Missing packages

2004-07-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:50:20AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Christopher schrieb: - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon - upset: *** warning package gtk2-x11-devel refers to non-existent external-source: gtk2-x11 upset: *** warning package gtk2-x11-doc refers to non-existent

Re: [RFC] Change to subversion package: Move /usr/bin/* - /usr/bin/subversion/* and add symlinks in /usr/bin

2004-07-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:08:55PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: $ zcat /etc/setup/subversion.lst.gz ... usr/bin/cygsvn_client-1-0.dll usr/bin/cygsvn_delta-1-0.dll usr/bin/cygsvn_diff-1-0.dll usr/bin/cygsvn_fs-1-0.dll usr/bin/cygsvn_ra-1-0.dll usr/bin/cygsvn_ra_dav-1-0.dll

Re: [RFC] Change to subversion package: Move /usr/bin/* - /usr/bin/subversion/* and add symlinks in /usr/bin

2004-07-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:58:53PM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: Sorry, no. /usr/bin is a flat structure. It does not contain subdirectories. There are glui-examples ncurses-test-dll So, crossing the street when it says Don't Walk is ok since you saw somebody

Re: [RFC] Change to subversion package: Move /usr/bin/* - /usr/bin/subversion/* and add symlinks in /usr/bin

2004-07-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:45:32PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: Sorry, no. /usr/bin is a flat structure. It does not contain subdirectories. There are glui-examples ncurses-test-dll I'll relocate ncurses-test-dll to /usr/lib

opengl maintainer please fix your package to not create subdirectories in /usr/bin

2004-07-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
The subject says it all. Please don't create subdirectories in /usr/bin with the one historical exception of the X11 directory. cgf

Re: [RFC] Change to subversion package: Move /usr/bin/* - /usr/bin/subversion/* and add symlinks in /usr/bin

2004-07-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:21:55AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Max Bowsher wrote: I propose to relocate all the above into a directory /usr/bin/subversion, and add symlinks to the executables in /usr/bin . Why not use /usr/share/subversion, or even /opt/subversion, for the

Re: opengl maintainer please fix your package to not create subdirectories in /usr/bin

2004-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:44:42AM -0400, Andre Bleau wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: So, crossing the street when it says Don't Walk is ok since you saw somebody do it just the other day? OK, but where is that Don't Walk sign posted? As I did not see it, maybe I've overlooked something else

Re: Looks like OpenGL may be up for grabs

2004-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:18:19PM -0400, Andre Bleau wrote: D- Less work for the mailing list processor at Red Hat. This is really a wash. Less work for the mailing list, more work for httpd. cgf

Re: Harold gone?

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:42:57AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hm, Harold is gone... Who takes over all his packages? Dunno if Harold is gone as in shall never darken our door again. He just relinquished primary control over the cygwin-xfree project. He didn't say

Re: setup / postinastall script question

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:45:39AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 9 09:46, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH Well, postinstall scripts are usually run with /bin/sh,

Re: Harold gone?

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:11:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:42:57AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hm, Harold is gone... Who takes over all his packages? Dunno if Harold is gone as in shall never darken our door again. He just

[cd /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin; /sourceware/infra/bin/cygwin/upset -C -u setup.ini; /usr/local/bin/upx -q -q -q setup.exe || exit 0]

2004-07-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
- Forwarded message from Cron Daemon - upset: *** warning package neon requires non-existent package libxml2-devel - End forwarded message -

Re: Harold gone?

2004-07-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 06:20:36PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Reini Urban wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: The sad thing is that the above Andrew is not a joke. Sigh. I can see I'm in for many weeks of apologies for calling Alexander Andrew. Sorry, *Alexander*. No problem

Re: [RFC] Change to subversion package: Move /usr/bin/* - /usr/bin/subversion/* and add symlinks in /usr/bin

2004-07-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 12:18:23AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:08:55PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: I propose to relocate all the above into a directory /usr/bin/subversion, Sorry, no. /usr/bin is a flat structure. It does not contain

Re: [RFC] Change to subversion package: Move /usr/bin/* - /usr/bin/subversion/* and add symlinks in /usr/bin

2004-07-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:32:30AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:02:59AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: My reluctance to do that is because the standard place to look for DLLs and programs on Cygwin is /usr/bin. I don't understand why, because

Did someone mess with setup.ini on sourceware.org?

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
It looks like someone wiped out setup.ini and it was completely regenerated by upset. That doesn't work. There is still state stored in setup.ini. It is not completely generated from the release directory. Please DO NOT mess with setup.ini. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to touch

Re: Tclsh: why exec replaces { with \{ ?

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:54:06PM +0200, Sektor van Skijlen wrote: Or just how to make it getting rid of it? It makes unable to, for example, run an awk program from inside Tcl script. Try this: exec -- echo This is {in braces} On ActiveTcl this does not happen. I also saw exec replacing /

Re: exim 4.40-1 is available for upload.

2004-07-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 01:10:36PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Please keep 4.34 and remove 4.30 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.40-1/exim-4.40-1-src.tar.bz2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.40-1/exim-4.40-1.tar.bz2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.40-1/setup.hint

Re: exim 4.40-1 is available for upload.

2004-07-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:53:40PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Meanwhile, here we go again: http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.40-2/exim-4.40-2-src.tar.bz2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.40-2/exim-4.40-2.tar.bz2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.40-2/setup.hint

Re: [ITP] autossh-1.2g-1

2004-07-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:47:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to package and maintain autossh for cygwin. autossh is a program to start an instance of ssh and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic. +1 from me. cgf

Re: approval procedure

2004-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:44:09PM -0600, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The current maintainers are eligible to vote. How does one go about generating interest for packages that the maintainers would be unlikely to use themselves? E.g. packages targeted for particular

Re: Please upload: ssmtp-2.60.9-2

2004-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:42:44PM -0400, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: Please upload a new version of ssmtp: http://math.berkeley.edu/~schneck/cygwin/ssmtp/ssmtp-2.60.9-2.tar.bz2 http://math.berkeley.edu/~schneck/cygwin/ssmtp/ssmtp-2.60.9-2-src.tar.bz2 Corinna, this has an ssmtp-config

Re: Please upload: exim-4.41-1

2004-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:16:33PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: This is a bug fix release, replacing 4.40-2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.41-1/exim-4.41-1-src.tar.bz2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.41-1/exim-4.41-1.tar.bz2

Re: Please upload: exim-4.41-1

2004-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:41:35PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 09:37 PM 7/23/2004 -0400, you wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:16:33PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: This is a bug fix release, replacing 4.40-2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.41-1/exim-4.41-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: Please upload: ssmtp-2.60.9-2

2004-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 10:20:57PM -0400, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:42:44PM -0400, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: Please upload a new version of ssmtp: I've downloaded this to sourceware.org. Which of the old ssmtp files should

Re: [ANN] Updated: gmp-4.1.3

2004-07-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:05:30PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm going to exercise executive privilege and give this a +3 vote. We need this package in the distribution. Do you actualyl need a vote, even if it is only an upgrade of an existing package? ;-) http

Re: Addition to cygwin - 'script'

2004-08-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 06:42:47AM -0700, Andrey Butov wrote: I would like to add the UNIX 'script' utility to the Cygwin project. I've read somewhere that a previous attempt has been made but halted due to complexity of implementation. Any objections, comments? You don't need to ask

Re: cygwin 1.5.10: ImageMagick 6.0.3 binaries fail

2004-08-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:16:26PM -1000, Russell Moffitt wrote: I just updated my cygwin and related apps to the latest versions using the setup.exe tool. Things seemed to be working fine before the update, but now I have trouble running any ImageMagick tools. For example, the following command

Re: 1.5.10: Apache startup as service with User: Guest, Windows event 1054

2004-08-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:56:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I configure Apache 1.3.29 with User: Guest, per the directions in the Readme (after enabling the Guest account) and attempt to start Apache as a service, it fails to start. There's an error in the Windows Application log,

Re: [ITP] e2fsprogs, e2fsimage

2004-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 05:30:58PM -0400, Robb, Sam wrote: Hello, I am interested in packaging and maintaining e2fsprogs for Cygwin. Version 1.35 pretty much builds OOTB. My primary interest in e2fsprogs is not the utilities themselves, but the ext2 libraries that are built as part of the

Re: Postinstall scripts and file access issues

2004-08-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:04:29AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Those of you that do not follow the Cygwin list should look at the thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00354.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00280.html In brief, postinstall scripts can produce unreadable

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:42:28AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: At some point in the medium-to-long-term future, I'd quite like to move the setup code from CVS to Subversion. Partly, that's because of all the little improvements subversion brings over cvs, but a notable concrete benefit subversion

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:12:37AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: I would not support such a move. I'd be interested to hear your reasons, so we might discuss this. Again, I do not see any reason to fragment cygwin/cygwin-apps development like this. Telling people that you need to use svn if you

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:17:11PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Larry Hall wrote: At 12:28 PM 8/19/2004, you wrote: Why is this bad? setup development doesn't really have any ties to the rest of cygwin development. How would this be a disadvantage? If the two groups of developers are not mutually

Re: [ITP] ctetris

2004-08-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 03:40:06PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: I would like to contribute and maintain the ctetris package: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctetris http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ctetris/ctetris-0.29.tar.bz2?download +1 from me. cgf

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