Re: setup RFC: Ditch homegrown http/ftp code and use a library?

2004-11-14 Thread Lapo Luchini
Robert Collins wrote: Huh? Doing what I suggest has nothing to do with the # of connections, the protocol supports it completely. It might, if you are spawning rsync locally each time, with the file list option, you could (easily) add a new file destination list, and that would provide the single

[UPDATE] base-files

2004-11-14 Thread John Morrison
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 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/md5sum

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: [UPDATE] base-files

2004-11-14 Thread John Morrison
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

Please upload: startup-notification-0.8-1

2004-11-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please upload this at your earliest convienence. http://cygwin-ports.sourceforge.net/install/temp/startup-notification/startup-notification-0.8-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: Please upload: startup-notification-0.8-1

2004-11-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please upload this at your earliest convienence. http://cygwin-ports.sourceforge.net/install/temp/startup-notification/startup-notification-0.8-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: Mozilla patch

2004-11-14 Thread bruno patin
Ok, I think I will be able to compile tonight. Will give you news at max monday. After that, what do you want me to examine ? Bruno

Re: Mozilla patch

2004-11-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
bruno patin wrote: Ok, I think I will be able to compile tonight. Will give you news at max monday. After that, what do you want me to examine ? I the build of the debugging version succeeds, it would be nice if I could get my hands on it, I still have no success building a debugging version.

Re: Mozilla patch

2004-11-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: bruno patin wrote: Ok, I think I will be able to compile tonight. Will give you news at max monday. After that, what do you want me to examine ? I the build of the debugging version succeeds, it would be nice if I If your build ... could get my hands on it, I still have no

Re: Mozilla patch

2004-11-14 Thread bruno patin
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: bruno patin wrote: Ok, I think I will be able to compile tonight. Will give you news at max monday. After that, what do you want me to examine ? I the build of the debugging version succeeds, it would be nice if I could get my hands on it, I still have no success building

Re: Mozilla patch

2004-11-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
bruno patin wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: bruno patin wrote: Ok, I think I will be able to compile tonight. Will give you news at max monday. After that, what do you want me to examine ? I the build of the debugging version succeeds, it would be nice if I could get my hands on it, I still have

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-14 Thread Roboco Sanchez
Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin.com writes: On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 04:31:53PM +, Roboco Sanchez wrote: The setup.exe should do the installation job properly. [snip] As for what our two develpers said, I do respect them for what they do for us but I wouldn't

Re: [Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.

2004-11-14 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 12:11 AM 11/14/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: When you first mentioned this, I had an idea that maybe we could be waiting on something else besides a process handle which would be inherited by any subprocesses. I thought that maybe we could somehow use a mutex but there would always be

Re: [Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.

2004-11-14 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 01:03 PM 11/14/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:34:30PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 12:11 AM 11/14/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: BTW, have you ever tried using select, having a connection from the parent to the child? select involves polling or

Re: [Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.

2004-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:23:59PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 01:03 PM 11/14/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:34:30PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 12:11 AM 11/14/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: BTW, have you ever tried using select, having a

Cygwin has two ROOT tree strcutures and the old one is not the default anymore.

2004-11-14 Thread Donat-Pierre Luigi
I have two root directory structures (both with usr, bin, etc, ...). One under the standard C:\cygwin ( i.e. /cygdrive/c/cygwin) and the other under C:\cygwin\download (i.e. /cygdrive/c/cygwin/download). When I enquire about the default bin location here is the reply: $ which ls /usr/bin/ls

sometimes resource alters but version numbers don't

2004-11-14 Thread fergus
Hi, Recently 23 files *.tar.bz2 under release/X11/ altered and so did the matching md5sums in setup.ini. (So these were real changes, not just a case of a buggy setup.ini catching up with release/.) However the version numbers did not alter, and so users with the earlier download i.j.old are not

Re: sometimes resource alters but version numbers don't

2004-11-14 Thread Reini Urban
fergus schrieb: Recently 23 files *.tar.bz2 under release/X11/ altered and so did the matching md5sums in setup.ini. (So these were real changes, not just a case of a buggy setup.ini catching up with release/.) However the version numbers did not alter, and so users with the earlier download

Re: slightly different cygwin installation problem

2004-11-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Daniel Newhouse wrote: I installed all the cygwin packages except for the X11 packages (I set the X11 packages to uninstall) and although I installed successfully there were a couple of errors in the installation procedure. I got an error message (in a Windows error message box) at one point

Re: new cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-14 Thread Doctor Bill
In regards to adding code to support coLinux, I don't see why that would be neccessary. coLinux doesn't need to talk to cygwin. Except for older versions, coLinux is not built on cygwin. If someone is really interested, as part of the coLinux tools I wrote set of functions for querying cygwin

icecast

2004-11-14 Thread Bernhard Janetzki
Hello, i want to compile icecast under cygwin. “./configure” works fine, but it produces this warning: … checking winsock2.h usability... no checking winsock2.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: check for missing

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libxml2-2.6.13-1

2004-11-14 Thread Patrick Eisenacher
Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: Libxml2 has been updated to version 2.6.16 NEWS There was a bug in the 'xmlcatalog' program in version 2.6.13 of Libxml2, it is strongly recommended to upgrade as soon as possible to libxml2-2.6.16. The Cygwin Libxml2 distribution consists now of four separate

Re: icecast

2004-11-14 Thread Tim Prince
At 07:06 AM 11/14/2004, Bernhard Janetzki wrote: Hello, i want to compile icecast under cygwin. “./configure” works fine, but it produces this warning: … checking winsock2.h usability... no checking winsock2.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: present but cannot be compiled

Re: icecast

2004-11-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Bernie, Bernhard Janetzki wrote: Hello, i want to compile icecast under cygwin. ./configure works fine, but it produces this warning: checking winsock2.h usability... no checking winsock2.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: winsock2.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING:

Re: sometimes resource alters but version numbers don't

2004-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:30:57PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: fergus schrieb: Recently 23 files *.tar.bz2 under release/X11/ altered and so did the matching md5sums in setup.ini. (So these were real changes, not just a case of a buggy setup.ini catching up with release/.) However the version

Re: Cygwin has two ROOT tree strcutures and the old one is not the default anymore.

2004-11-14 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:42 AM 11/14/2004, you wrote: I have two root directory structures (both with usr, bin, etc, ...). One under the standard C:\cygwin ( i.e. /cygdrive/c/cygwin) and the other under C:\cygwin\download (i.e. /cygdrive/c/cygwin/download). When I enquire about the default bin location here is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libxml2-2.6.13-1

2004-11-14 Thread Marcel Telka
Hi. On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 04:20:07PM +0100, Patrick Eisenacher wrote: Unfortunately, the xml:base parameter in the group element is ignored when updating the catalog, and I end up with my relative path being substituted with an absolute one. But that's Marcel's plate again :) Can the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: base-files

2004-11-14 Thread John Morrison
Changes: 3.1-3 * Change cd ${HOME} functionality for CHERE - Dave Kilroy 3.1-2 * Fix for zsh/ksh - Tero Niemela Please direct all comments and questions to the cygwin list. J. ** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look

Re: Cygwin has two ROOT tree strcutures and the old one is not the default anymore.

2004-11-14 Thread Donat-Pierre Luigi
Larry, Thanks for your reply. C:\cygwin\download has always been the one used for Setup on my system, and it only created havoc when I re-installed base and library packages. It was supposed to be on the place to store the installation files that Setup downloads. Do suggest I should re-install

Re: Cygwin has two ROOT tree strcutures and the old one is not the default anymore.

2004-11-14 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:50 PM 11/14/2004, you wrote: Larry, Thanks for your reply. C:\cygwin\download has always been the one used for Setup on my system, and it only created havoc when I re-installed base and library packages. It was supposed to be on the place to store the installation files that Setup

Re: Cygwin has two ROOT tree strcutures and the old one is not the default anymore.

2004-11-14 Thread Donat-Pierre Luigi
Thanks Larry, This seems easy enough. I was about to run setup to follow your hunch of the 1st email you sent me. Also, I was reading about rebase in same post. You are right, I was distracted, I am so used to see the select the loacl package directory selction on the 4th page, I must have

Re: Cygwin has two ROOT tree strcutures and the old one is not the default anymore.

2004-11-14 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:23 PM 11/14/2004, you wrote: Thanks Larry, This seems easy enough. I was about to run setup to follow your hunch of the 1st email you sent me. Also, I was reading about rebase in same post. You are right, I was distracted, I am so used to see the select the loacl package directory

Re: Cygwin has two ROOT tree strcutures and the old one is not the default anymore.

2004-11-14 Thread Donat-Pierre Luigi
I could not resist to try it before going out. It worked. I am late but tha's ok. The only little problem is with the profile in /etc: bash: /etc/profile: line 196: syntax error: unexpected end of file. And I look in it with vi: E325: ATTENTION Found a swap file by the name /etc/.profile.swp

postinstall scripts don't run when installing onto samba share.

2004-11-14 Thread Donovan Baarda
G'day, I've googled around, searched the list archives, and not found anything quite like what I'm experiencing. Whenever I install onto a samba share (ie P:/cygwin instead of C:/cygwin), the postinstall scripts don't run. There is no indication of any errors. The most obvious symptom is the

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

2004-11-14 Thread Stephen More
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:58:00 -0800, Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solution: add setup.exe logic to remove and install new cygwin DLL first before all other operations, if selected. I am willing to try an add this logic. Where is the source for setup.exe ? I am looking through CVS and

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

2004-11-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Stephen More wrote: I am willing to try an add this logic. Where is the source for setup.exe ? I am looking through CVS and I am not finding the setup code: http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/?cvsroot=src You can find details of building setup.exe at

Re: postinstall scripts don't run when installing onto samba share.

2004-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:47:16AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: I don't understand why the execute bits would not be set. Remote shares are assumed to be non-executable by default for speed considerations. You can fix this by mounting the share with the -x option: mount -x -f //foo/bar /bar

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libgnomeprint22-2.8.0.1-1

2004-11-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** libgnomeprint22-2.8.0.1-1 This contains upstream bugfixes as part of the GNOME 2.8.1 desktop release. Yaakov - -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: desktop-file-utils-0.10-1

2004-11-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** desktop-file-utils-0.10-1 This upstream release includes a major rewrite to the code and build system, as much of the previous code (namely the internal libmenu) is now in the

Re: postinstall scripts don't run when installing onto samba share.

2004-11-14 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:47:16AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: I don't understand why the execute bits would not be set. Remote shares are assumed to be non-executable by default for speed considerations. You can fix this by mounting

Re: postinstall scripts don't run when installing onto samba share.

2004-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:01PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:47:16AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: I don't understand why the execute bits would not be set. Remote shares are assumed to be non-executable by

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: base-files

2004-11-14 Thread John Morrison
Changes: 3.1-3 * Change cd ${HOME} functionality for CHERE - Dave Kilroy 3.1-2 * Fix for zsh/ksh - Tero Niemela Please direct all comments and questions to the cygwin list. J. ** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look

Updated: libgnomeprint22-2.8.0.1-1

2004-11-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** libgnomeprint22-2.8.0.1-1 This contains upstream bugfixes as part of the GNOME 2.8.1 desktop release. Yaakov - -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want

Updated: desktop-file-utils-0.10-1

2004-11-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** desktop-file-utils-0.10-1 This upstream release includes a major rewrite to the code and build system, as much of the previous code (namely the internal libmenu) is now in the GNOME