Re: Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

2009-06-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Lists wrote: Lists wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Can you upgrade to the latest Cygwin 1.7 package and try again. From your cygcheck output, it looks like things are not correct but this may be just a problem with an old cygcheck that doesn't know how to find the implicit mounts. If the issue i

Re: Cygwin-1.7 on WinNT Workstation 4.0

2009-06-21 Thread Jerry DeLisle
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 06:45:48AM -0700, Jerry DeLisle wrote: Current 1.7 documentation states that Cygwi-1.7 will not work on Win 95, 98, or Me. Does this also include Win NT? I tried installing on Win NT and I get the following when trying to open a terminal. 78

Re: ITP on cygwin-apps

2009-06-21 Thread Federico Hernandez
> much about it. :-)  Just ping again.  And you should feel free to > address any questions, issues, or requests you have related to I have just pinged a short while ago. THX, /Federico -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docum

Re: cygport and update-{desktop,mime}-database

2009-06-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 21/06/2009 13:42, Ken Brown wrote: Cygport sometimes add lines to postinstall scripts to call update-desktop-database and update-mime-database. Would it be reasonable for the postinstall script to first check for the existence of those programs? That would prevent users from seeing mysterious

cygport and update-{desktop,mime}-database

2009-06-21 Thread Ken Brown
Cygport sometimes add lines to postinstall scripts to call update-desktop-database and update-mime-database. Would it be reasonable for the postinstall script to first check for the existence of those programs? That would prevent users from seeing mysterious error messages in their setup logs

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh

2009-06-21 Thread Mark Harig
Dave Korn wrote: However, now you've got rid of that, a quick re-run through setup.exe and set everything to reinstall on the chooser page should fix it. setup-1.7.exe is running pretty reliably now that I have stopped (but not removed) these two services via the Services app: LVCOMSer

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Dependency errors in Emacs installation

2009-06-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/21/2009 12:36 PM, Mark Harig wrote: During the post-installation of emacs 23.0.92-10, the following error messages are written to /var/log/setup.log.full: Visited: 68 nodes out of 1460 while creating dependency order. Dependency order of packages: base-cygwin base-passwd cygwin libiconv2

Cygwin 1.7: Dependency errors in Emacs installation

2009-06-21 Thread Mark Harig
During the post-installation of emacs 23.0.92-10, the following error messages are written to /var/log/setup.log.full: Visited: 68 nodes out of 1460 while creating dependency order. Dependency order of packages: base-cygwin base-passwd cygwin libiconv2 libintl8 alternatives alternatives libgmp

Re: Cygwin-1.7 on WinNT Workstation 4.0

2009-06-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 06:45:48AM -0700, Jerry DeLisle wrote: >Current 1.7 documentation states that Cygwi-1.7 will not work on Win 95, 98, >or >Me. Does this also include Win NT? > >I tried installing on Win NT and I get the following when trying to >open a terminal. > >78 [main] bash 139 tty_

Cygwin-1.7 on WinNT Workstation 4.0

2009-06-21 Thread Jerry DeLisle
Current 1.7 documentation states that Cygwi-1.7 will not work on Win 95, 98, or Me. Does this also include Win NT? I tried installing on Win NT and I get the following when trying to open a terminal. 78 [main] bash 139 tty_list::allocate: No tty allocated Any help or clarification would be a

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh

2009-06-21 Thread Dave Korn
Mark Harig wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> http://cygwin.com/acronyms#BLODA >> > > From that link: > >> FYI For Your Information. Also "Fix Yourself It" (for all the Star >> Wars fans out there) > > Perhaps, DIY (Do It Yourself) could be added. My > guess is that it is more commonly used

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: git-1.6.3.2-1, git{k,-gui,-completion,-svn}-1.6.3.2-1

2009-06-21 Thread Andy Moreton
On Wed 17 Jun 2009, Eric Blake wrote: > A new release of git, 1.6.3.2-1, has been uploaded to the cygwin 1.7 > release area. This replaces 1.6.3.1-1 as current. > > NEWS: > = > This is a new upstream major release. It also changes the location of > library executables from /usr/sbin/git-core