[ITP] boxes 0.19.3 -- Textmode box- and comment drawing filter

2007-09-19 Thread Jari Aalto
Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/boxes Jari sdesc: Textmode box- and comment drawing filter ldesc: Extremely configurable filter for adding and removing ASCII art (comments, for example) around chunks of text. Most modern text editors support filtering text through

[ITP] bsfilter 1.0.15 -- Bayesian spam filter with Japanese support

2007-09-19 Thread Jari Aalto
Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/bsfilter Jari sdesc: Bayesian spam filter with Japanese support ldesc: A spam filter which can distinguish spam mail from other mails. It can read mails by three way: reads from normal file or stdin, retrieves and stores from IMAP

Re: [GTG] Re: [ITP] lzop-1.02rc1 -- Very fast Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer packer

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 18:08, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Jari Aalto writes: Included in Debian stable http://packages.debian.org/lzop Builds fine from source, packaging looks good. Jari GTG Volker Uploaded. Please announce. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: [GTG] Re: [ITP] httping-1.2.5 -- Ping-like program for http-requests

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 18:10, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Jari Aalto writes: Included in Debian stable http://packages.debian.org/httpingc Builds fine from source, packaging looks good. Jari GTG Volker Uploaded. Please announce. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: URGENT: flac changes causes problems updating setup.ini

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 18 11:11, David Rothenberger wrote: On 9/18/2007 8:01 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: upset: *** warning package libFLAC++5 refers to non-existent external-source: flac upset: *** warning package libFLAC7 refers to non-existent external-source: flac upset: *** warning package

Re: [ITP] odt2txt -- Simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 18 20:37, Jari Aalto wrote: Not yet in Debian stable, so needs votes. I find it handy for quick viewing of Open Office documents. http://packages.debian.org/odt2txt Jari sdesc: Simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text ldesc: Extract the text out of

Re: update: gsl-1.10-1

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 18 22:46, Teun Burgers wrote: http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ar.burgers/gsl/gsl-1.10-1-src.tar.bz2 http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ar.burgers/gsl/gsl-1.10-1.tar.bz2 http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ar.burgers/gsl/setup.hint

Re: [RFU] speex-1.2beta2-1

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 18 19:11, David Rothenberger wrote: wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/speex/speex-1.2beta2-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/speex/speex-1.2beta2-1.tar.bz2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/speex/setup.hint \

Re: Request for new maintainers

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 18 22:19, James R. Phillips wrote: Hi, Regrettably I must request that new maintainers be found for all my packages. I have been unable for months to devote any time to this worthwhile project, and don't see any relief in sight. The package that sparked my interest in package

Re: [ITP] odt2txt -- Simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text

2007-09-19 Thread Jari Aalto
* Tue 2007-09-18 jari aalto-w6EBCRcXQ4deoWH0uzbU5w jari.aalto-w6EBCRcXQ4deoWH0uzbU5w AT public.gmane.org * Message-Id: y7f3lvsr.fsf AT blue.sea.net Not yet in Debian stable, so needs votes. I find it handy for quick viewing of Open Office documents. http://packages.debian.org/odt2txt

Maintained packages per maintainer

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Dunno if that's interesting to anybody, but... Out of curiosity I created a list which lists all maintainers with their respective number of packages. The numbers are taken from my (hopefully) up-to-date cygwin package list. Note that the number also contains all subpackages, so, if a package

RE: Maintained packages per maintainer

2007-09-19 Thread Dave Korn
On 19 September 2007 14:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Dunno if that's interesting to anybody, but... Out of curiosity I created a list which lists all maintainers with their respective number of packages. The numbers are taken from my (hopefully) up-to-date cygwin package list. Note that

Re: [ITP] Quilt for git; similar to Mercurial queues

2007-09-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Eric Blake writes: According to Eric Blake on 8/30/2007 8:15 PM: According to Jari Aalto (Cygwin-bug#20070830T2136) on 8/30/2007 4:06 PM: now when we have git in the distro, I'd like to propose companion to it: Guilt. The program is not yet in stable:

Re: [ITP] Quilt for git; similar to Mercurial queues

2007-09-19 Thread Jari Aalto
* Tue 2007-09-18 Dr Dr Dr.Volker.Zell-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA AT public.gmane.org * Message-Id: 826427pva7.fsf AT vzell-de.de.oracle.com Packaging seems wrong. All the guilt-*.txt symlinks are wrong, they point to /usr/src/build/build/guilt/guilt-0.27/Documentation/guilt-*.txt. Fixed. New

Re: Maintained packages per maintainer

2007-09-19 Thread Peter Rosin
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:54:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 17 Peter Ekberg I guess I haven't mentioned that my name is Peter Rosin these days... Cheers, Peter (who got married a while back)

Re: [ITP] Quilt for git; similar to Mercurial queues

2007-09-19 Thread Peter Rosin
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:06:06AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: So I guess needs votes. +1 Cheers, Peter

[ITP] aewm++ 1.1.2 -- A minimal window manager for X11, based on aewm

2007-09-19 Thread Cygwin-bug#20070919T2238x
Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/aewm++ Jari sdesc: A minimal window manager for X11, based on aewm ldesc: Window manager with aewm's minimalist look and feel but is written in C++, and adds some modern features like virtual desktops and partial GNOME support. category:

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-19 Thread Holger Krull
Michael Giroux schrieb: Do the CygwinX developers watch this list? As far as i know xwin is unmaintained at the moment. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/

Re: Install Problems

2007-09-19 Thread Fergus
Completely agree about Vista, it's ruined my life, but are you sure you waited long enough for gnuplot.sh to complete? For no clear reason that I can discern, it takes ages on both the machines I use regularly, one of which is in all other contexts really fast. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Issue with newest snapshot (2007-08-31)

2007-09-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:37:50 +0200) On Sep 4 22:16, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Thorsten Kampe (Tue, 4 Sep 2007 22:11:05 +0100) with the newest snapshot a similar issue occurred as described in http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00186.html and fixed in

Re: 1.5.24-2: zero-length write() and ioctl() on fd -1 cause crashes

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Elliot, On Sep 18 11:54, Elliott Hughes wrote: http://software.jessies.org/terminator/ uses Cygwin to provide Windows support, and it's been most useful. i just thought i'd mention a couple of things that caused crashes in cygwin1.dll 1.5.24-2 where that might not have been Cygwin's

Re: Issue with newest snapshot (2007-08-31)

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 19 09:28, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Corinna Vinschen (Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:37:50 +0200) On Sep 4 22:16, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Thorsten Kampe (Tue, 4 Sep 2007 22:11:05 +0100) with the newest snapshot a similar issue occurred as described in

Re: Passing arguments to rxvt when it is used as an argument for chere

2007-09-19 Thread Richard Toy
Yep those are the two ways to do it. There's no way to specify extra arguments on the chere command line that will be appended to the invocation command. May I ask what command line options you're thinking of adding? Could they go into .Xdefaults instead? Most rxvt and xterm options can. Dave.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: httping 1.2.5 -- Ping-like program for http-requests

2007-09-19 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.vanheusden.com/httping License : GPL Show how long it takes to connect to a hostname or remote url; send a request and retrieve the reply (only the headers). CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE == The changes are

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: lzop 1.02rc1 -- Very fast Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer packer

2007-09-19 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.lzop.org/ License : GPL Lzop is a file compressor which is very similar to gzip. lzop uses the LZO data compression library for compression services, and its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed

Re: Passing arguments to rxvt when it is used as an argument for chere

2007-09-19 Thread Brian Mathis
On 9/19/07, Richard Toy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I don't tend to run an xserver so rxvt runs in native mode when invoked via chere. All was working ok but then an issue described here http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-09/msg00359.html occurred so I needed some was to make the chere

Re: Passing arguments to rxvt when it is used as an argument for chere

2007-09-19 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Brian Mathis wrote: On 9/19/07, Richard Toy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Hi I don't tend to run an xserver so rxvt runs in native mode when invoked via chere. All was working ok but then an issue described here

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

2007-09-19 Thread SQueeZe
Lets say I just drop sh.exe into the installation folder, what else would I need to do? I have taken the sh.exe file from a cywgin install and put it into c:\bin\, and tried running my command again. Now it no longer complains that it can't find /bin/sh but it still doesn't print anything to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion 1.4.5-1

2007-09-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Max Bowsher writes: Subversion, a version control system which aims to be a compelling replacement for CVS, has been updated in the Cygwin net distribution to version 1.4.5-1. This is a new upstream bugfix and (low-to-moderate urgency) security release.

[Packaging BUG] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-4.7p1-1

2007-09-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Corinna Vinschen writes: I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 4.7p1-1. It seems you also bundled inetutils with openssh Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

[Packaging BUG] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: typespeed-0.6.2-1

2007-09-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Lapo Luchini writes: Version 0.6.2-1 of typespeed has been uploaded. The README file is installed under two locations, see below /usr/share/doc/typespeed/ /usr/share/doc/typespeed/README /usr/share/doc/typespeed-0.6.2/ /usr/share/doc/typespeed-0.6.2/ABOUT-NLS

[Packaging BUG] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dpatch-2.0.26-2

2007-09-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jari Aalto writes: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://packages.debian.org/dpatch License : GPL An easy to use patch system for packages, It lets you store patches and other simple customization templates in debian/patches and otherwise

Re: Install Problems

2007-09-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Kris Ciersezwski wrote: Ok I sent a log of my setup, I was unable to cygcheck -s -r -v and *attach* the output. No 'setup.log' or 'setup.log.full' files in the directory with 'setup.exe'? What part of creating the 'cygcheck' information caused you problems? -- Larry Hall

Re: [Packaging BUG] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-4.7p1-1

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 18 22:23, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 4.7p1-1. It seems you also bundled inetutils with openssh Ouch. Thanks for the heads up. I uploaded new packages for openssh as well as inetutils to fix this problem.

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

2007-09-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
SQueeZe wrote: Lets say I just drop sh.exe into the installation folder, what else would I need to do? I have taken the sh.exe file from a cywgin install and put it into c:\bin\, and tried running my command again. Now it no longer complains that it can't find /bin/sh but it still doesn't

Re: Cygwin Installation Problems on Windows Vista (killing sh.exe helps)

2007-09-19 Thread lent
For getting the installation to keep going, killing off an sh.exe process via Task Manager's End Process, moves things along. This also seems to need to be done for texf (I think that was the name) package. At least we get to the final setup screen this way :-) Chris Lent Kevin Hilton-3

RE: Cygwin Installation Problems on Windows Vista (killing sh.exe helps)

2007-09-19 Thread Dave Korn
On 19 September 2007 16:42, lent wrote: For getting the installation to keep going, killing off an sh.exe process via Task Manager's End Process, moves things along. This also seems to need to be done for texf (I think that was the name) package. Hell, you can make the whole thing move

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

2007-09-19 Thread SQueeZe
Thanks for your reply Larry, I will continue with the cwRsync guys. The 'advantage' of a package like cwRsync is that most Windows users wouldn't understand or want to dabble with a cywgin install and the intricacies that go along with it. cwRsync can be installed in about 10 seconds, and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: speex-1.2beta2-1/speex-devel-1.2beta2-1/libspeex1-1.2beta2-1

2007-09-19 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version of the speex, speex-devel, and libspeex1 packages are now available for download. NEWS: = Updated to the 1.2beta2 upstream release. Although marked a beta release, this is the version recommended by upstream. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/speex-1.2beta2/.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-4.7p1-2

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 4.7p1-2. The -2 version only solves a packaging problem as reported in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-09/msg00478.html This is a new major upstream release. The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources. The official release message of

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: inetutils-1.3.2-37

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of inetutils to 1.3.2-37. The -37 version only solves a packaging problem as reported in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-09/msg00478.html = IMPORTANT NOTE: - When updating

dd Bug using \\.\PhysicalDriveX ?

2007-09-19 Thread Scalzott, Todd
I believe that this is part of CORE, which I have at 6.9-5. I did update to all of the latest just a short while ago and reverified the problem. I've discovered what I believe to be a problem with dd on several different XP SP2 systems with Cygwin installed involving the usage of Windows'

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

2007-09-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:53:21AM -0700, SQueeZe wrote: Thanks for your reply Larry, I will continue with the cwRsync guys. The 'advantage' of a package like cwRsync is that most Windows users wouldn't understand or want to dabble with a cywgin install and the intricacies that go along with it.

Re: Passing arguments to rxvt when it is used as an argument for chere

2007-09-19 Thread Dave
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Brian Mathis wrote: On 9/19/07, Richard Toy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't tend to run an xserver so rxvt runs in native mode when invoked via chere. All was working ok but then an issue described here http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-09/msg00359.html occurred so I

Re: dd Bug using \.\PhysicalDriveX ?

2007-09-19 Thread Eric Blake
Scalzott, Todd tscalzott at kastle.com writes: I believe that this is part of CORE, which I have at 6.9-5. I did update to all of the latest just a short while ago and reverified the problem. There's no such thing as CORE in the cygwin distribution; you meant coreutils. I've discovered

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

2007-09-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
SQueeZe wrote: Thanks for your reply Larry, I will continue with the cwRsync guys. The 'advantage' of a package like cwRsync is that most Windows users wouldn't understand or want to dabble with a cywgin install and the intricacies that go along with it. cwRsync can be installed in about 10

Re: Cygwin Emacs 22.1.3 missing lisp/subdirs.el

2007-09-19 Thread Steffen Sledz
John Paul Wallington schrieb: The emacs-22.1-3.tar.bz2 package (35eaabd503b22d5c9a34a23ad88125bf), snarfed from http://mirrors.xmission.com, doesn't contain the /usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/subdirs.el file that is essential to the proper functioning of Emacs. That file adds several

Re: dd Bug using \.\PhysicalDriveX ?

2007-09-19 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/19/07, Eric Blake wrote: Scalzott, Todd writes: I believe that this is part of CORE, which I have at 6.9-5. I did update to all of the latest just a short while ago and reverified the problem. There's no such thing as CORE in the cygwin distribution; you meant coreutils.

bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this?

2007-09-19 Thread James Adams
I have recently installed Cygwin version 2.510.2.2 onto a Windows XP system and when I launch it the first thing I see is this: 5 [main] bash 3024 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13 bash: fork: Permission denied I get the same message when I try running the ls command:

RE: Cygwin Installation Problems on Windows Vista (killing sh.exe helps)

2007-09-19 Thread lent
Dave Korn wrote: On 19 September 2007 16:42, lent wrote: Hi Dave, thanks for the quick reply. Sorry, but I wasn't able to find the solution you refer to for the problem of setup.exe hanging in Windows Vista. Where can I find it? For getting the installation to keep going, killing off

Re: bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this?

2007-09-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
James Adams wrote: I have recently installed Cygwin version 2.510.2.2 onto a Windows XP system and when I launch it the first thing I see is this: 2.510.2.2 is the version of 'setup.exe', not Cygwin. The Cygwin package, which is just one of many in the Cygwin distribution, is currently

Re: bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this?

2007-09-19 Thread James Adams
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: James Adams wrote: I have recently installed Cygwin version 2.510.2.2 onto a Windows XP system and when I launch it the first thing I see is this: 2.510.2.2 is the version of 'setup.exe', not Cygwin. The Cygwin package, which is just one of many in the

Re: bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this?

2007-09-19 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/19/07, James Adams wrote: - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - bash-3.2$ cygcheck -s -v -r cygcheck.out 69675674 [main] bash 3156 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13 bash: fork: Permission denied - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - cygcheck is a Windows program so you can run

Re: bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this?

2007-09-19 Thread James Adams
I fixed the problem by installing into another directory other than C:\cygwin. I have no idea why this fixes the problem, but probably it has something to do with security packages installed on the computer (it's a new work laptop which appears to have several security related programs installed

Re: bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this?

2007-09-19 Thread James Adams
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 9/19/07, James Adams wrote: - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - bash-3.2$ cygcheck -s -v -r cygcheck.out 69675674 [main] bash 3156 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13 bash: fork: Permission denied - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - cygcheck

Ls POSIX style slink output

2007-09-19 Thread Matt Seitz \(matseitz\)
What do you think of changing ls -l to display symbolic links using POSIX style paths instead of Windows style? When I run ls -l /etc, the symbolic links are displayed using Windows format (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). It would be easier to copy and paste the output to a cd command if

file locking problem

2007-09-19 Thread BJ
I have a file locking problem that is solved under Mac and Linux using fcntl: int lockRepFile (int fd, char lock, size_t from, size_t length) { struct flock fl; fl.l_start = from; fl.l_len = length; fl.l_pid = 0; if (lock == 'r') fl.l_type = F_RDLCK; else if (lock

Re: Ls POSIX style slink output

2007-09-19 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Matt Seitz (matseitz) on 9/19/2007 5:32 PM: What do you think of changing ls -l to display symbolic links using POSIX style paths instead of Windows style? When I run ls -l /etc, the symbolic links are displayed using Windows format

Re: Ls POSIX style slink output

2007-09-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Blake wrote: Symlinks merely contain whatever text they were created with. If the text it was created with was Windows style, then readlink(2) will not translate it. I suppose I could try to patch ln(1) to posix-ify any name that looks like a Windows filename before actually calling

How to type ascii characters on rxvt or any cygwin terminal

2007-09-19 Thread Carlo Florendo
Hi, How do I type ascii characters on my terminal (besides running the cygutils ascii program and doing a cut-and-paste of the corresponding ascii character)? I used to be able to do ALT + ASCII_CODE combinations on old windows systems. However, the oldest Windows I got now is 2k and XP.

Octave 2.9.14 Cygwin testing binaries Update

2007-09-19 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Dear Octave-Cygwin Users, I have just uploaded the cygwin tesing binary packages of the latest octave snapshot the octave-2.9.14. http://www.geocities.jp/tmacchant/ In the last posting, I have fogotten to write the URL. Sorry! Regards Tatsuro -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Cygwin Installation Problems on Windows Vista (gnuplot.sh and install-info)

2007-09-19 Thread lent
Hi, Please point out if I'm wrong or misinformed... I'm trying to trace down the Vista cygwin setup.exe /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh hang forever at 99% problem. The current /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh contains the line: /usr/bin/install-info --dir-file=/usr/share/info/dir

New package: httping 1.2.5 -- Ping-like program for http-requests

2007-09-19 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.vanheusden.com/httping License : GPL Show how long it takes to connect to a hostname or remote url; send a request and retrieve the reply (only the headers). CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE == The changes are

New package: lzop 1.02rc1 -- Very fast Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer packer

2007-09-19 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.lzop.org/ License : GPL Lzop is a file compressor which is very similar to gzip. lzop uses the LZO data compression library for compression services, and its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed

Updated: inetutils-1.3.2-37

2007-09-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of inetutils to 1.3.2-37. The -37 version only solves a packaging problem as reported in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-09/msg00478.html = IMPORTANT NOTE: - When updating