On 2024-03-04 12:54, ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote:
The postinstall script for units downloads currency exchange rates and
hangs up for a long time if it can't access the server (if it ever
finishes, I've killed the process on all machines where I've seen this).
Can this part please either
The postinstall script for units downloads currency exchange rates and
hangs up for a long time if it can't access the server (if it ever
finishes, I've killed the process on all machines where I've seen this).
Can this part please either be removed entirely or moved into a
sub-package
glance at the source. I recall adapting it to load SQL tables
> with units data. I recall writing code very similar to that in the
> units_cur{2|3} python sources to keep the table current.
> units_cur2 is the python2 version, units_cur3 is the python3 version
> of the updater.
> It is us
, On 24 May 2017 at 18:16, Brian Inglis wrote:
> I would appreciate it if anyone has any experience with, or can point me
> to, any python3 code in any Cygwin package which works Windows proxy
> authentication?
I had a glance at the source. I recall adapting it to load SQL tables
with u
; just the administrator.
>
>> Would the best approach be to punt on running the update script at all,
>> install a null /usr/share/units/currency.units file, announce and
>> document that if currency conversions are desirable, the user should
>> arrange to run the u
n running the update script at all,
> install a null /usr/share/units/currency.units file, announce and
> document that if currency conversions are desirable, the user should
> arrange to run the update script, either from the command line, profile,
> cron job, or Task Scheduler?
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] writes:
> I would prefer that by default updates happen automatically and those
> who do not want automatic updates do something to stop them from
> happening.
That there should be updates was never debated, only the machanism of
doing so is discussed here.
>
the user first time
thru if they want daily currency updates during login over the network,
and then either null or update currencies, and after do or do not update
currencies.
We could document how updates could be run: run the command from the
shell, or add the necessary code to: some profile or profile.
t if users want to use current currency conversions.
>>
>> Currencies needs to be split to a different package from non-currency
>> units. Non-currency units is very static, whereas most currencies
>> changes daily. In the absence of updates, non-currency units are still
>> usefu
fferent package from non-currency
> units. Non-currency units is very static, whereas most currencies
> changes daily. In the absence of updates, non-currency units are still
> useful; but currencies are incorrect in most cases, and increasingly
> so as time pass.
>
> It is di
On 23 May 2017 at 15:49, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Updating the currencies only when setup is run seems to me to be
> insufficient if users want to use current currency conversions.
Currencies needs to be split to a different package from non-currency
units. Non-currency units is very
On 2017-05-23 11:28, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Brian Inglis writes:
>> The easiest approaches to this would be:
>> - rename or delete postinstall script which might upset cygcheck or
>> setup remove
>> - null /usr/share/units/currency.units, as it is required and p
Brian Inglis writes:
> The easiest approaches to this would be:
> - rename or delete postinstall script which might upset cygcheck or
> setup remove
> - null /usr/share/units/currency.units, as it is required and produces
> an error message if not available, but if it is empty, e
On the cygwin list, Achim Gratz asked:
> Can you please make that configurable by some file in /var/lib/units
> that will prevent the perpetual postinstall script from even forking
> if the user decides that this should not be updated?
Configuration of units is currently supported onl
aded both.
> Please let me know if there are any issues, or what I should read now
> to know what to check?
> I've sftp-ed !mail and x86{,_64}/release/!ready, received two calm
> emails indicating release, apt update shows units upgradable to
> 2.14-1 for x86{,_64}, ran setup-x86{,
at to check?
I've sftp-ed !mail and x86{,_64}/release/!ready, received two calm
emails indicating release, apt update shows units upgradable to 2.14-1
for x86{,_64}, ran setup-x86{,_64} to install, tested, so should be
okay to announce?
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
> On 2017-04-25 17:42, Brian Inglis wrote:
> > As a long time user of Cygwin and units, both professionally and
> > personally, I noticed a new release of units 2.14 was available
> > but the package is orphaned.
>
> I have been nominally maintaining it anyway,
On 27/04/2017 00:20, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2017-04-26 17:16, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2017-04-26 12:30, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
On 2017-04-26 10:50, Brian Inglis wrote:
- x86 does not have the libreadline7 direct dependency in .hint
That means you were missing libreadline-devel; you will need
ng cygcheck, both
> indicate built with readline (and ncursesw10), hints and source
> packages now all match, so moved common sources under units/, only
> binaries under x86{,_64}/:
>
> Gdrive
>
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_phQl0EKs8jdXc4bXl2dGFqN3c?usp=sharing
> uni
ed lib{readline,ncurses}-devel, first
rebuild make said "nothing to do", so blew away build/ contents,
rebuilt, tested, checked --version, and using cygcheck, both
indicate built with readline (and ncursesw10), hints and source
packages now all match, so moved common sources under uni
On 2017-04-26 10:50, Brian Inglis wrote:
- x86 does not have the libreadline7 direct dependency in .hint
That means you were missing libreadline-devel; you will need to install
that for x86 and rebuild.
--
Yaakov
On 2017-04-25 20:59, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2017-04-25 20:25, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> On 2017-04-25 17:42, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> As a long time user of Cygwin and units, both professionally and
>>> personally, I noticed a new release of units 2.14 was ava
On 26/04/2017 03:59, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2017-04-25 20:25, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
On 2017-04-25 17:42, Brian Inglis wrote:>
I've read the contributor/maintainer guides but as this would be my
first package contribution, I may need some help using calm, etc.
"cygport upload" takes care of
On 2017-04-25 20:25, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2017-04-25 17:42, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> As a long time user of Cygwin and units, both professionally and
>> personally, I noticed a new release of units 2.14 was available
>> but the package is orphaned.
>
> I have
On 2017-04-25 17:42, Brian Inglis wrote:
As a long time user of Cygwin and units, both professionally and
personally, I noticed a new release of units 2.14 was available
but the package is orphaned.
I have been nominally maintaining it anyway, but you're welcome to take it.
I built
Hi folks,
As a long time user of Cygwin and units, both professionally and
personally, I noticed a new release of units 2.14 was available
but the package is orphaned.
I built and installed the new release for myself, and thought I'd
like to make it available to the community, so would like
Last time I simply removed the `test' marker. This time I'll ask.
John, are you sure that it should become a `test' version?
Please see setup.html. It explicitly requires this for new packages.
Rob
Ok, I bit. Step 5:
5. Create setup.hint file following the documentation on this web page.
For new packages the first upload MUST be tagged as experimental. Once
the package has no major bug reports from the users, then a current
package may be introduced
Rob
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:53:30PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
Ok, I bit. Step 5:
5. Create setup.hint file following the documentation on this web page.
For new packages the first upload MUST be tagged as experimental. Once
the package has no major bug reports from the users, then a
I found a problem with the bash_completion as stands...
I have a path ~/Applications/Apache Group/ with no other directory in
Applications starting with 'A'. When I cd ~/Applications/A[tab] it doesn't
autocomplete.
When I look through the shell script I can see...
snippit
# Turn on extended
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- Original Message -
From: Morrison, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: RE: bash completion (was: RE: Units)
I found a problem with the bash_completion as stands...
...
Sorry to have caused so
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:02:07AM -, Morrison, John wrote:
I found a problem with the bash_completion as stands...
I have a path ~/Applications/Apache Group/ with no other directory in
Applications starting with 'A'. When I cd ~/Applications/A[tab] it doesn't
autocomplete.
That's
-Original Message-
From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2001 11:22 am
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:02:07AM -, Morrison, John wrote:
I found a problem
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:40:35PM -, Morrison, John wrote:
Hi,
I've packaged up the latest version of units.
I've just uploaded it to sourceware.
You might consider to send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in a few hours. Please keep the format as you will find it in
the cygwin-announce
December 2001 11:29 am
To: Morrison, John
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Units
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:40:35PM -, Morrison, John wrote:
Hi,
I've packaged up the latest version of units.
I've just uploaded it to sourceware.
You might consider to send a message to [EMAIL
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- Original Message -
From: Morrison, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Robert Collins' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Morrison,
John [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:50 PM
Subject: RE: bash completion (was: RE: Units)
Question: does
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:53:30PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
Ok, I bit. Step 5:
5. Create setup.hint file following the documentation on this web page.
For new packages the first upload MUST be tagged as experimental. Once
the package has no major bug
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:39:13AM -, Morrison, John wrote:
Thanks. Will do.
btw, since you prob a *lot* more about bash than I do (since you're the
maintainer for cygwin ;) have you any idea's why that's scripts messing cd's
auto completion up?
Prepared for disappointment?
Ok, then,
Oh well - never mind :) I CC'd the original author, hopefully either he (or
somebody on this list...? :) can fix it *GRIN*.
J.
-Original Message-
From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2001 12:45 pm
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Units
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:09:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 07:38:39AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Not amused,
Corinna
Nor, am I amused. If it must be tagged I'd rather see the tag NEW
instead, unless the maintainer believes that
Charles Wilson wrote:
John, why don't you create a bashutils package, to serve as a
collection of (moderately) useful bash scripts and settings. For now,
it could contain only bashcompletion, but later you could add -- oh,
bashprompt, or something...
I'm sure every daily bash user has
]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2001 7:26 pm
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Units
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:09:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 07:38:39AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
Corinna Vinschen
- Original Message -
From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't see how that applies to the first release of a new package.
I'd call it pretty basic risk management. If the package doesn't cause
any havoc, then put it in current really quickly. I'm just nervous with
the concept
large characters and a
program which converts between various systems of units.
The *only* thing I can think of that would require care with packages
like these would be to ensure that they didn't overwrite other parts
of cygwin's installation. I can see that becoming more of an issue
as time
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- Original Message -
From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Btw, I think Earnie's idea of having a *New!* category is actually a
good one. I have been meaning to implement something like that for
the
web package lister, in fact.
Yes. I intend to do that for setup once we
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 04:25:49PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
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- Original Message -
From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Btw, I think Earnie's idea of having a *New!* category is actually a
good one. I have been meaning to implement something like that for the
web package
===
- Original Message -
From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What about
New within the last _x_ days ?
Then it's up to the user.
Rob
Thanks.
btw - did you have a look at the bash completion script I posted about the
other day?
-Original Message-
From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2001 10:27 am
To: Gary R. Van Sickle; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Units
Sounds like
OK,
The setup.hint and bz2 packages can be found at:
http://www.straylight.eu.org/~carl/bash_completion/
Here's the hint file...
sdesc: A script of Bash completion rules.
ldesc: A relatively new feature in bash is programmable completion,
which has been available since the beta version of
Cc: Morrison, John; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)
Earnie Boyd wrote:
I think that `category: Utils' is too generic. I'd prefer Misc but
that's reserved. How about `category: Shell Utils'?
In the current grammar, `category: Shell Utils
Morrison, John wrote:
Thats not what the help file says...
Note that category names may be multi-word, e.g., ASCII Games but,
currently all categories are only a single word.
I know that.
category: Shell Utils
is two categories.
category: Shell Utils
is one category. (Earnie's
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:16:58PM -, Morrison, John wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
- Original Message -
From: Morrison, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is fun.
A couple of questions for you wrt setup.hint...
category: the
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:04:22AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
Morrison, John wrote:
Thats not what the help file says...
Note that category names may be multi-word, e.g., ASCII Games but,
currently all categories are only a single word.
I know that.
category: Shell Utils
is two
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:58:55PM -, Ebrey, Carl wrote:
Gah! I meant to send this to the list but I replied and so it went to
Earnie instead. Sorry about that...
Okay, I could be really wrong here but from what I can see,
http://cygwin.com/setup.html doesn't mention any Shell Utils
, 2001 4:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)
snip
I'm not sure how you got that impression. This includes the cygwin package
itself would be applied to If your package is dependent on a file. So,
if
your package is not dependent on anything in the cygwin package
The same could be said for many people where the sender is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Carl
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 4:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001
completion (was: RE: Units)
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 04:21:17PM -, Ebrey, Carl wrote:
I have to admit that I thought it was quite confusing too. Perhaps if it
said, This rule also applies to Cygwin itself because Cygwin is also a
package?
Now, *that's* confusing.
So the cygwin package should say
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:58:55PM -, Ebrey, Carl wrote:
Gah! I meant to send this to the list but I replied and so it went to
Earnie instead. Sorry about that...
Okay, I could be really wrong here but from what I can see,
http://cygwin.com/setup.html
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 04:25:36PM -, Ebrey, Carl wrote:
Is there no way that the list program can rewrite the reply-to line? That
would Make Things Easier(TM), IMHO of course :)
How about if I just block any email that mentions Reply-To? That
would make things a lot easier for me.
cgf
: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 4:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 04:25:36PM -, Ebrey, Carl wrote:
Is there no way that the list program can rewrite the reply-to line? That
would
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 04:31:40PM -, Ebrey, Carl wrote:
That's what the webpage implies. If that's not what it means, then surely
you have to agree that the page is confusing.
I guess now I understand at least one specific confusion.
Robert already clarified the intent of the section. Go
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Is there anything similar to this in Red Hat, Debian, SuSE, etc.?
Well, /etc/profile, hosts, passwd, group and other core config files are
owned by the 'setup' package in Red Hat Linux. Then there's the
initscripts package for the rc.d directory. And most of the
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2001 4:17 pm
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:04:22AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
Morrison, John wrote:
Thats
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:13:35AM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Is there anything similar to this in Red Hat, Debian, SuSE, etc.?
Well, /etc/profile, hosts, passwd, group and other core config files are
owned by the 'setup' package in Red Hat Linux. Then there's the
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 04:28:28PM -, Morrison, John wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2001 4:17 pm
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)
I hate to be a wet blanket about
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:26:00PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 04:28:28PM -, Morrison, John wrote:
Fair enough - I found it today and found it useful. I thought one of the
purposes of this list was to question whether an app would be a nice
addition.
It
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I'd like to pour fuel into the fire of `usefulness' of a package.
I'd like to contribute the NetBSD fortune package to Cygwin and
therefore I'd even like to propose to add a Games section *gasp*.
setup.hint:
---
sdesc: Print a random, hopefully
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:46:58PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I'd like to pour fuel into the fire of `usefulness' of a package.
I'd like to contribute the NetBSD fortune package to Cygwin and
therefore I'd even like to propose to add a Games section *gasp*.
setup.hint:
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- Original Message -
From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmm. Maybe I just convinced myself that they belong as a separate
package.
How about this:
John, why don't you create a bashutils package, to serve as a
collection of (moderately) useful bash scripts and settings.
- Original Message -
From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Opinions?
Cool. You've my vote.
Rob
- Original Message -
From: Ebrey, Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One thing I would like to say though is that I've been quite annoyed
by the
attitudes that come over on this mailing list. The last time I
checked
Cygwin was an open project, available for anyone to contribute and
offer
help.
work done :)
J.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Collins
Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2001 9:37 pm
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: fortune-1.8-1 [was Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)]
- Original Message
Sure. Will do either tomorrow or Friday.
J.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Wilson
Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2001 5:54 pm
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)
Christopher Faylor wrote
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:36:52AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
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- Original Message -
From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmm. Maybe I just convinced myself that they belong as a separate
package.
How about this:
John, why don't you create a bashutils package, to serve as a
I've email'd the author - he's blessed the port. I've also asked him to
keep me in touch with new versions.
-Original Message-
From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 17 December 2001 11:31 am
To: Morrison, John
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Units
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:29 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Units
erm, I should probably add that the actual setup.hint file /does/ have @
units as the first line. Just for clarity, and all her friends :)
Carl
-Original Message-
From: Morrison, John
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:43:34PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 22:38, Ebrey, Carl wrote:
Oops. Having actually read the new setup.html I see that the @ line is now
optional. Okay, so now I feel stupid and I shall see to it that I get a
severe beating in order to ensure
Hi,
I've packaged up the latest version of units. Carl's kindly lent me some
disk space. Would people take a look and tell me if it's OK?
http://www.straylight.eu.org/~carl/units/
gnu_intro
Units is a program for units conversion and units calculation. The program
converts quantities
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