Christopher Faylor writes:
Package updates happen every five minutes so you were probably only
a minute or so from having inetutils upload privileges.
I've seen that and almost put the update out, but I have one question: I
gave the patched tar file a release number of 1p1 so that Chuck can
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:05:39PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
Christopher Faylor writes:
Package updates happen every five minutes so you were probably only
a minute or so from having inetutils upload privileges.
I've seen that and almost put the update out, but I have one question: I
gave the
Christopher Faylor writes:
That's very thoughtful of you but I think I'd rather not experiment with
version number ordering. I think you should just bump the -N part to
the next higher number and let Chuck deal with bumping his version number
twice. I think that will be less confusing to
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:30:02PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
Christopher Faylor writes:
That's very thoughtful of you but I think I'd rather not experiment with
version number ordering. I think you should just bump the -N part to
the next higher number and let Chuck deal with bumping his
Christopher Faylor writes:
You can always download them directly from ftp.cygwin.com but I wouldn't
advertise that fact too heavily. We have mirrors to keep the load on
cygwin.com/sourceware.org as light as possible.
Thanks. Being able to use this has alerted me to the fact that I
needed to
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:19:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:08:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 5 12:20, Achim Gratz wrote:
Corinna Vinschen writes:
FYI, I contacted Chuck off-list 6 days ago but he didn't reply yet.
Same here.
I hope Chuck
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 7 14:20, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:19:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:08:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 5 12:20, Achim Gratz wrote:
Corinna
On Apr 7 15:23, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 7 14:20, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:19:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:08:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On
Corinna Vinschen writes:
Done. Achim, if you would be so kind...
I'll do it tomorrow evening as the latest update of the !package file
hasn't picked it up yet. I have an early morning meeting tomorrow and
need to fetch some sleep, so I don't want to wait another hour… hope
this is OK.
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:39:46PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
Corinna Vinschen writes:
Done. Achim, if you would be so kind...
I'll do it tomorrow evening as the latest update of the !package file
hasn't picked it up yet. I have an early morning meeting tomorrow and
need to fetch some sleep, so
Corinna Vinschen writes:
FYI, I contacted Chuck off-list 6 days ago but he didn't reply yet.
Same here.
I hope Chuck will still reply in the next couple of days, but if not, we
have to find some solution to be able to go forward.
I am updating some packages this weekend, so if someone can
On Mar 23 15:04, Achim Gratz wrote:
Achim Gratz writes:
Other than that, it looks good to me. I'd say, let's go for it when
you're ready.
New version with those changes has been uploaded:
--8---cut here---start-8---
wget=wget -rxnH --cut-dirs=2
Achim Gratz writes:
Other than that, it looks good to me. I'd say, let's go for it when
you're ready.
New version with those changes has been uploaded:
--8---cut here---start-8---
wget=wget -rxnH --cut-dirs=2 http://cygwin.stromeko.net/noarch/release;
Hi Achim,
On Mar 15 18:45, Achim Gratz wrote:
Since the current maintainer David Le Sastre Medina seems to have gone
missing, here's my attempt to wrap up the changes that were implemented
after the 4.1-2 package was published as experimental (and then never
released). The pertinent
Corinna Vinschen writes:
--8---cut here---start-8---
wget=wget -rxnH --cut-dirs=2 http://cygwin.stromeko.net/noarch/release;
${wget}/base-files/base-files/base-files-4.1-3.tar.xz
^
There's one base-files too much.
Thanks
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 06:09:22PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
Corinna Vinschen writes:
Other than that, it looks good to me. I'd say, let's go for it when
you're ready.
I still need to wait for Chuck to create an inetutils package without
/etc/defaults/etc/shells. Then we'll probably need
Since the current maintainer David Le Sastre Medina seems to have gone
missing, here's my attempt to wrap up the changes that were implemented
after the 4.1-2 package was published as experimental (and then never
released). The pertinent discussions on the Cygwin ML are listed in the
ChangeLog.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:12:01AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Mar 12 07:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
Links to base-files-4.0-4:
http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2
On Mar 12 07:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
Links to base-files-4.0-4:
http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2
http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2.sig
Looks good to me. Uploaded and
On 12 March 2011 09:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Mar 12 07:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
Links to base-files-4.0-4:
http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:12:01AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Mar 12 07:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
Can versions before 3.9-3 be deleted?
If this is a question for me, I think they can be safely deleted now.
Keeper of the Gold Stars, please
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:12:01AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Mar 12 07:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
Links to base-files-4.0-4:
http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2
On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
Links to base-files-4.0-4:
http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2
http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2.sig
Looks good to me. Uploaded and cygwin-pkg-maint updated. Can versions
On 7 March 2011 13:05, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 6 March 2011 17:19, David Sastre wrote:
- Not that it makes a great difference, but I think the interactive
checks should be done before sourcing /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc
from /etc/profile and ~/.profile, respectively, rather than doing it
in
On 6 March 2011 17:19, David Sastre wrote:
- Not that it makes a great difference, but I think the interactive
checks should be done before sourcing /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc
from /etc/profile and ~/.profile, respectively, rather than doing it
in the rc files. That would save opening the
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 05:03:37PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
The problem appears to be back:
Sorry for not getting round to this sooner.
Hello Andy,
It should be alive again. Thanks for checking.
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signature.asc
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 07:07:18AM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 5 March 2011 17:03, Andy Koppe wrote:
Actually I had already downloaded this anyway. Looks great, only two
suggestions:
- Not that it makes a great difference, but I think the interactive
checks should be done before sourcing
On 24 February 2011 10:14, David Sastre wrote:
2011/2/24, Corinna Vinschen:
Hi David,
On Feb 23 19:02, David Sastre wrote:
Hello,
I think the links to the latest revision got lost in the replies to
my question about privileged users.
In the meantime, the domain I was using expired. These
On 5 March 2011 17:03, Andy Koppe wrote:
Weird. I checked it out early this morning. Sometimes it doesn't work
for me either due to dyndns (or my router's ddclient client, I can't
tell for sure) not refreshing properly.
(...calls home and requests a whatsmyip query...)
OK. I've manually
Hi David,
On Feb 23 19:02, David Sastre wrote:
Hello,
I think the links to the latest revision got lost in the replies to
my question about privileged users.
In the meantime, the domain I was using expired. These are the
valid links now:
On Feb 24 11:14, David Sastre wrote:
2011/2/24, Corinna Vinschen:
Hi David,
On Feb 23 19:02, David Sastre wrote:
Hello,
I think the links to the latest revision got lost in the replies to
my question about privileged users.
In the meantime, the domain I was using expired. These
I have a request, David.
Next time you have a new version of base-files to upload, please start a
NEW thread. And give it a title like [RFU] base-files or something.
The current thread started in Sept2010, with new threads (which were
inexplicably simply started as replies to the final message
New discussion or subject: new thread. Please.
Has anyone ever tried to port KDE to Cygwin?
(ducks)
Hello,
I think the links to the latest revision got lost in the replies to
my question about privileged users.
In the meantime, the domain I was using expired. These are the
valid links now:
http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-3.tar.bz2
On 2/6/2011 4:40 PM, David Sastre wrote:
I have a question yet: is there a consistent way of knowing
the GID of users with administrative privileges (from a windows
perspective) so that could be used to add /usr/sbin to their paths?
AFAIK, this requires Win32 C code. Take a look at the code
On Feb 9 10:42, Charles Wilson wrote:
On 2/6/2011 4:40 PM, David Sastre wrote:
I have a question yet: is there a consistent way of knowing
the GID of users with administrative privileges (from a windows
perspective) so that could be used to add /usr/sbin to their paths?
AFAIK, this
Hello,
I have corrected some stuff in the /etc/profile reported offlist by
Cyrille Lefevre and a pair of little annoyances (e.g. hostname
was not referenced by its full path).
I have a question yet: is there a consistent way of knowing
the GID of users with administrative privileges (from a
On 11 January 2011 12:01, David Sastre wrote:
Also, I'd appreciate opinions regarding the guard-like tests in some
config files, namely /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile
and ~/.bashrc. I'm not very convinced about including them.
Why do we need them? I don't see equivalent
On Jan 12 08:06, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 11 January 2011 12:01, David Sastre wrote:
Also, I'd appreciate opinions regarding the guard-like tests in some
config files, namely /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile
and ~/.bashrc. I'm not very convinced about including them.
Why do
On Jan 10 19:40, David Sastre wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 06:08:06PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 6 17:04, Andrew Schulman wrote:
New package available at:
http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-2.tar.bz2
2011/1/11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 10 19:40, David Sastre wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 06:08:06PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 6 17:04, Andrew Schulman wrote:
New package available at:
http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-2.tar.bz2
On Jan 6 17:04, Andrew Schulman wrote:
New package available at:
http://www-eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-file-4.0-2.tar.bz2
http://www-eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-file-4.0-2.tar.bz2.sig
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 06:08:06PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 6 17:04, Andrew Schulman wrote:
New package available at:
http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-2.tar.bz2
http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-2.tar.bz2.sig
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 05:20:14PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 14 December 2010 20:41, David Sastre wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:50:32AM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
I'll try selective sourcing from /etc/profile e.g. bash sources
*sh, and not *.zsh, and viceversa.
Done.
On a related
New package available at:
http://www-eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-file-4.0-2.tar.bz2
http://www-eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-file-4.0-2.tar.bz2.sig
http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-2.tar.bz2
On 14 December 2010 20:41, David Sastre wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:50:32AM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
Speaking of /etc/profile.d, it seems wrong to do that from
/etc/bash.bashrc. The name of the directory suggests that its content
is for login shells only.
Absolutely. I'll try selective
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:50:32AM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 10 December 2010 00:05, David Sastre wrote:
Speaking of /etc/profile.d, it seems wrong to do that from
/etc/bash.bashrc. The name of the directory suggests that its content
is for login shells only.
Absolutely. I'll try
On 9 December 2010 06:29, David Sastre wrote:
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:21:38PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 8 December 2010 21:22, David Sastre wrote:
I have decided to pull out of /etc/profile the case switch that tries
to detect the shell and sets PS1 (and HOSTNAME) accordingly.
The
Hi All...
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:04:39 +
Subject: Re: [ITA] - base-files
From: andy
On 9 December 2010 06:29, David Sastre wrote:
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:21:38PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 8 December 2010 21:22, David Sastre wrote:
I have decided to pull out of /etc/profile
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:59:32AM -0800, Karl M wrote:
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:04:39 +
From: andy
On 9 December 2010 06:29, David Sastre wrote:
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:21:38PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 8 December 2010 21:22, David Sastre wrote:
I have decided to pull out
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 01:05:44AM +0100, David Sastre wrote:
And given that critical files will be detected as modified (even if
they are not) because of the cmp line in preremove, existing files
remain untouched and new files end up in /etc/default/etc.
Scratch that. Preremove can't do that
On 10 December 2010 00:05, David Sastre wrote:
I fail to see how any customised setup would end up broken.
The skeletal files are copied to the user's $HOME only if $HOME
doesn't exist and they are never overwritten nor updated; the installation of
a new base-files package places its defaults
Hello,
I have a base-files-4.0-1 package ready to receive testing. You can fetch it
from this URL:
http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-1.tar.bz2
http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-1.tar.bz2.sig
md5sums:
Hi David,
I've not had chance to install this but I have pulled and taken a look.
May I be (amongst) the first to thank you for the work you've put into
this.
Regards,
John.
On 8 December 2010 21:22, David Sastre wrote:
Hello,
I have a base-files-4.0-1 package ready to receive testing. You can fetch it
from this URL:
http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-1.tar.bz2
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:21:38PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 8 December 2010 21:22, David Sastre wrote:
Hello,
I have a base-files-4.0-1 package ready to receive testing. You can fetch it
I'm afraid there's a syntax error in /etc/profile though:
elif [ ! -O $HOME -a ${HOME#/home/}
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:21:38PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 8 December 2010 21:22, David Sastre wrote:
Hello,
I have a base-files-4.0-1 package ready to receive testing. You can fetch it
from this URL:
I'm afraid there's a syntax error in /etc/profile though:
elif [ ! -O $HOME -a
Hello,
Regarding the ITA of these packages, and the proposed patches, I have
some thoughts to share and discuss before I repackage them.
1 http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00521.html
case sensitivity of system32 dir (win7 and vista)
2 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00503.html
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:59:32PM +0200, David Sastre wrote:
4 Can we consider this? what are the circular dependencies in that scenario?
AFAICT, including base-passwd in base-files, and afterwards dropping
base-passwd dependencies anywhere else should be harmless.
Unless Corinna disagrees, I'd
On Sep 17 13:59, David Sastre wrote:
Hello,
Regarding the ITA of these packages, and the proposed patches, I have
some thoughts to share and discuss before I repackage them.
1 http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00521.html
case sensitivity of system32 dir (win7 and vista)
2
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:50:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Sep 17 13:59, David Sastre wrote:
Regarding the ITA of these packages, and the proposed patches, I have
some thoughts to share and discuss before I repackage them.
2 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00503.html
On Sep 17 18:47, David Sastre wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:50:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
What's wrong with the proposed patch? The only problem I have with it
is the fact that it uses tr and sed to find out what shell it's running
in. There is probably a way to do this
On 17 September 2010 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
5 As stated in the referenced thread, there is no way to prevent attackers
to create a user's home dir before she/he logins the first time other than
disallowing anyone but the Administrator to do that.
If the proposed workaround (issuing a
On Sep 17 21:23, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 17 September 2010 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
5 As stated in the referenced thread, there is no way to prevent attackers
to create a user's home dir before she/he logins the first time other than
disallowing anyone but the Administrator to do that.
On 17 September 2010 21:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Sep 17 21:23, Andy Koppe wrote:
On 17 September 2010 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
5 As stated in the referenced thread, there is no way to prevent attackers
to create a user's home dir before she/he logins the first time other than
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