Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Rothenberger wrote: > This should have been "supported through apr/aprutil". I'm not sure what > support Cygwin has for UTF-8. > > apr1 and aprutil1 are both without a maintainer. I'm considering taking > over those packages, but haven't found

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.7-1

2008-08-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna -- Attached see (1) bugfix for ssh-user-config -- self-explanatory. (2) behavior enhancement for ssh-host-config Takes advantage of new functions and cleans up behavior under 1.7 -- esp. 'mount' doesn't have a -t option anymore, so we need another mechanism to deal with the dos-f

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.7-1

2008-08-16 Thread cygwin
csih (cygwin-service-installation-helper) provides a library of shell functions that can be used by other cygwin packages that provide servers and daemons. It can assist in various service installation tasks, such as: * identifying the underlying Windows OS * detecting whether a "privileged user"

Bug in cygcheck (1.7)

2008-08-16 Thread Charles Wilson
cygcheck seems really confused, on my 1.7 installation (which is XPsp3 on a VMware virtual image). Or I am. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 VMWARE-XP 1.7.0(0.186/5/3) 2008-08-15 15:17 i686 Cygwin $ cygcheck -cd Cygwin Package Information Package Version _update-info-dir00749-1 aa

Re: Anyone want to be the "expect" package maintainer?

2008-08-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 06:07:37PM -0700, Keith Christian wrote: >I've used Cygwin's expect for a couple of years in sporadic automation >and it works well. > >One thing that is useful and which is missing from the Cygwin package >is the "autoexpect" program, which I copied from the source tarball.

Re: Anyone want to be the "expect" package maintainer?

2008-08-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 01:46:19PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Christopher Faylor on 8/15/2008 11:11 AM: >> I haven't updated the expect package in many years. It used to be based >> on a hacked version of expect from the sourceware.org

Re: Anyone want to be the "expect" package maintainer?

2008-08-16 Thread Keith Christian
I've used Cygwin's expect for a couple of years in sporadic automation and it works well. One thing that is useful and which is missing from the Cygwin package is the "autoexpect" program, which I copied from the source tarball. There is nothing that appears massively broken, so it should be ea

Bug in mkpasswd (1.7)

2008-08-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Always prints the standard well-known users, even when just requesting a single user's entry: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 VMWARE-XP 1.7.0(0.186/5/3) 2008-08-15 15:17 i686 Cygwin $ mkpasswd -l -u cwilson SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19:: NetworkS

Re: Anyone want to be the "expect" package maintainer?

2008-08-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 8/15/2008 11:11 AM: > I haven't updated the expect package in many years. It used to be based > on a hacked version of expect from the sourceware.org src repository but > that version has disappeared. I asked the pe

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-16 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/16/2008 3:56 AM, Alexander Gottwald wrote: David Rothenberger wrote: Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: This does not happen if I use a non-cygwin (command-line) Subversion, or if I use TortoiseSVN. That's the reason why I write this mail here, and not on a Subversion list. Windows supports the c

Re: Anyone want to be the "expect" package maintainer?

2008-08-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:11:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Volker's recent email about packages which still use /usr/{info,man} >reminded me about "expect". > >I haven't updated the expect package in many years. It used to be based >on a hacked version of expect from the sourceware.org s

RE: Im having a problem downloading version 1.5.25-15 having something to do with setup.ini.sig

2008-08-16 Thread Dave Korn
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote on 15 August 2008 22:24: > It would seem that when setup encounters the error that Garret > encountered, it should ask whether to continue anyway (i.e., invoke -X) > or abort. If nothing else, it will avoid some of emails to the list > that repeats Garret's rep

Re: Subversion 1.5.1 on Cygwin: Aborting because "Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8'": Subversion problem, or generic Cygwin installation problem?

2008-08-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
David Rothenberger wrote: Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: This does not happen if I use a non-cygwin (command-line) Subversion, or if I use TortoiseSVN. That's the reason why I write this mail here, and not on a Subversion list. Windows supports the conversion using Windows APIs, it's just not supp