Personally I feel that a platform like sourceforge provides a more
professional project environment which would provide more confidence in
stable project development.
What do you think?
Sourceforge is awful. It's incredibly unreliable, on a project I contribute
to where we deal with dozens of
On May 31 23:15, Thomas Wolff wrote:
As a contributor to mintty, some sent me a notice discussing the move to
github
(http://www.reddit.com/r/cygwin/comments/37vgwi/what_happened_to_minttys_maintainer_andy_kopp/)
and now there is already a github fork of mintty
On May 31 17:08, Andrew Schulman wrote:
Is the key fingerprint posted anywhere on cygwin.com or sourceware.org?
I can't
find it. If not, would someone mind adding it to the Uploading
Packages to
cygwin.com page
(https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-upload.html),
Any thoughts on a better regex or on keeping compatibility with other
systems?
Right, OK. See the attached revised patch, which uses
[0-9a-f]{2}(:[0-9a-f]{2}){15}|SHA256:.{44}
to detect the key fingerprint. The left side is the same as now, for pre-6.8
systems, which use MD5
On 5/30/2015 8:01 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Marco Atzeri writes:
TeXLive had the same problem, that's one of the reasons perpetual
postinstall scripts were introduced. You can look at that to see how
Ken deals with that.
..
Regards,
Achim.
Hi Achim,
if I understood correctly a script called
On May 31 11:51, Ismail Donmez wrote:
Rich Eizenhoefer wrote
I've created a backlog item for this request so we can track the ask. It's
possible, but would probably need to pick your brain in-depth more about
the ask in the future. In the meantime, is it okay if I attach a copy of
this
On May 31 22:07, GrahamC wrote:
It used to be possible to test for the presence of 544 in the bash array
GROUPS or the output of the /usr/bin/id program to determine when running as
administrator.
Since updating to the latest version this no longer works.
E.g. while running as
Hi,
I just discovered recently that `man *` where * is anything results in a
segmentation fault.
The stackdump is:
Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at rip=0018017855D
rax=766972646779632F rbx=000100418290 rcx=000600049E30
rdx= rsi=000100418280
Andrew Schulman writes:
OK, here you go. The patch is a bit large, because I took the opportunity to
reorganize the text a bit and add a new section showing how to upload packages
the automated way using cygport up. The complete revised page is at
Thanks for looking into this Larry.
You have to run vim several times in the same terminal for the fault to
occur. I launch bash from a desktop shortcut, and it appears to be using
the conhost process. My bash terminal is configured with white background
and black text, and vim is configured
On 6/1/2015 5:08 PM, SPC wrote:
Hello. I am not sure is this is the correct destination address for
this message. Anyway I would like to know if exist any package on
Cygwin needed of a maintainer by now or even others needed of some
kind of collaboration in a similar basis.
Dear Sergio,
The
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=3c932910e6a36bd70a16f70436f08945fbc833f3
commit 3c932910e6a36bd70a16f70436f08945fbc833f3
Author: Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk
Date: Thu May 21 17:34:41 2015 +0100
Remove mention of installing everything
An
I've updated the tcsh package to 6.19.00-1.
This is an upstream version update. The Cygwin version is build from
the vanilla upstream 6.19.00 sources as release on 2015-05-21.
Peace,
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer
Hello. I am not sure is this is the correct destination address for
this message. Anyway I would like to know if exist any package on
Cygwin needed of a maintainer by now or even others needed of some
kind of collaboration in a similar basis.
Gracias | Regards - Saludos | Greetings | Freundliche
On Jun 1 18:17, Achim Gratz wrote:
Andrew Schulman writes:
OK, here you go. The patch is a bit large, because I took the opportunity
to
reorganize the text a bit and add a new section showing how to upload
packages
the automated way using cygport up. The complete revised page is at
Thomas Wolff writes:
I'd like to discuss what you (cygwin maintainers and others) think of
this move, whether it's good for mintty to be hosted on
github.
The first thing should really be to find out what Andy Koppe thinks
about this, or is there any information about his whereabouts that says
On Jun 1 16:16, Frank Fesevur wrote:
2015-06-01 10:36 GMT+02:00 Corinna Vinschen:
It's not so much the hosting service providing the upstream repository
which concerns me, it's the lack of development, the lack of a responsive
maintainer, and the lack of a new, stable mintty package.
On 06/01/2015 10:14 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Thomas Wolff writes:
I'd like to discuss what you (cygwin maintainers and others) think of
this move, whether it's good for mintty to be hosted on
github.
The first thing should really be to find out what Andy Koppe thinks
about this, or is there
Hi folks,
unfortunately, my issue seems to be not interesting enough to trigger someones
attention... ;)
Was my issue well described or do you have further questions? I'd appreciate
any help leading me forward, e.g. maybe some hints in howto instrument cygwin
sources to be able to further
Marco Atzeri writes:
if I understood correctly a script called
/etc/postinstall/zp_octave_finish.dash
will be always executed at the end of the postinstall script
sequence and never renamed as .done.
Yes.
I am moving the octave update script in
/var/lib/octave/update_packages_list
On Jun 1 18:14, Achim Gratz wrote:
Thomas Wolff writes:
I'd like to discuss what you (cygwin maintainers and others) think of
this move, whether it's good for mintty to be hosted on
github.
The first thing should really be to find out what Andy Koppe thinks
about this, or is there any
On 23/05/2015 22:14, Matthew Horwood wrote:
I have been trying to connect to a raspberry PI over XDMCP, but have
been having issues getting it to work.
After looking at both the cygwin/X and raspberry PI sites, I did a
search for 'lightdm connecting to xserver windows' and found a post that
I've updated the gawk package to 4.1.3-1.
This is a new upstream release.
Changes from 4.1.2 to 4.1.3
---
1. Regexp parsing with extra brackets should now be working again. There
are several new tests to keep this stuff on track.
2. Updated to latest config.guess and
I've updated the gawk package to 4.1.3-1.
This is a new upstream release.
Changes from 4.1.2 to 4.1.3
---
1. Regexp parsing with extra brackets should now be working again. There
are several new tests to keep this stuff on track.
2. Updated to latest config.guess and
2015-06-01 10:36 GMT+02:00 Corinna Vinschen:
On May 31 23:15, Thomas Wolff wrote:
As a contributor to mintty, some sent me a notice discussing the move to
github
(http://www.reddit.com/r/cygwin/comments/37vgwi/what_happened_to_minttys_maintainer_andy_kopp/)
and now there is already a github
On a tablet running Windows 8.1pro I installed Cygwin 2.0.0 /64.
Unfortunately I have issues using the on-screen (virtual) keyboard with Alt-Gr
keys from within mintty.
Example: In Germany to get to the @ character you have to press [Alt-Gr][q].
This, however, doesn't work in mintty using
Corinna Vinschen writes:
On May 29 21:37, Achim Gratz wrote:
The new SHA512 checksums are rather lengthy. Could we switch them to
Base64 (perhaps the URL and file safe variant) instead of the current
hex encoding instead (maybe with an SHA512: prefix if we want to support
both)?
Not for
Corinna Vinschen writes:
Running your commands on sourceware itself shows the exact same
results when accessing the public host RSA key:
$ ssh-keygen -lf /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
1024 1d:1e:46:7f:4d:73:8d:10:20:c3:4c:5a:34:14:44:23
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub (RSA)
$ awk '{print
On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 12:21 +0100, David Stacey wrote:
pugixml is a lightweight C++ XML processing library. It is present in
most Linux distros [1] and is a dependency of mkvtoolnix. Fedora and
Centos both name the library package pugixml rather than libpugixml, and
that naming has been
JonY wrote:
On 5/9/2015 05:57, Christian Franke wrote:
After upgrading to recent mingw64 toolchain, builds with link time
optimizer fail during linking.
Can you try with the upstream binutils git version? It is most likely a
new regression.
Sorry for the delay.
Same result with a build
On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 12:14 +0100, David Stacey wrote:
libmatroska is a C++ library to parse Matroska files (*.mkv, *.mka). It
requires libebml [1].
libmatroska is present in most Linux distros [2]. It's also present in
Cygwin Ports, albeit at an earlier version, so Yaakov should have
On Jun 1 20:11, Achim Gratz wrote:
Corinna Vinschen writes:
On May 29 21:37, Achim Gratz wrote:
The new SHA512 checksums are rather lengthy. Could we switch them to
Base64 (perhaps the URL and file safe variant) instead of the current
hex encoding instead (maybe with an SHA512:
On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 12:05 +0100, David Stacey wrote:
libebml is a library for reading and writing files with the Extensible
Binary Meta Language, a binary pendant to XML. It is a dependency of
mkvtoolnix.
And they were even nice enough to finally use a real build system.
libebml is
Duane Ellis sent the following at Sunday, May 24, 2015 11:03 AM
(Sorry I cannot reply directly to the previous email I just subscribed
to the list, I am quoting from the list archive)
(from the archive - permissions inside and outside of /cygwin get messed up)
I think this is *THE* cause of my
Corinna Vinschen writes:
Since it seems you plan to use libcrypto from OpenSSL anyway:
https://gist.github.com/barrysteyn/7308212#file-base64decode-c
I don't. Why do you think so?
Because of the openssl branch in Git.
This was a drop-in replacement for Digest::MD5. Anything else I'll
let
On May 31, 2015, at 4:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote:
On May 29 17:49, Steven Penny wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
- Improved performance in terms of SHA512 checksum computation.
Thanks for this, but how was it done?
It was
On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 12:31 +0100, David Stacey wrote:
mkvtoolnix is a collection of tools for manipulating Matroska files
(*.mkv, *.mka). It features command line utilities and a GUI front end.
It requires libebml [1], libmatroska [2] and pugixml [3].
This would be a nice addition.
On Jun 1 17:03, theodor.kaz...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi folks,
unfortunately, my issue seems to be not interesting enough to trigger
someones attention... ;)
Was my issue well described or do you have further questions? I'd
appreciate any help leading me forward, e.g. maybe some hints in howto
On Jun 1 20:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jun 1 17:03, theodor.kaz...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi folks,
unfortunately, my issue seems to be not interesting enough to trigger
someones attention... ;)
Was my issue well described or do you have further questions? I'd
appreciate any help
The 5.22.0 release of Perl has happened on schedule. The Cygwin
packages are building at the moment, I will need another day or two for
the distribution rebuilds.
The current plan is that the packages should be available on my server
by the end of the week latest. Depending on how the
This feature requires multiple moving parts from other teams at Microsoft and
we have not started on it yet. We have begun planning for the first
post-Windows 10 release, and within our team we have talked about how to create
hidden consoles and make the console driver/API better all around. I
On Jun 1 21:49, Achim Gratz wrote:
Corinna Vinschen writes:
Since it seems you plan to use libcrypto from OpenSSL anyway:
https://gist.github.com/barrysteyn/7308212#file-base64decode-c
I don't. Why do you think so?
Because of the openssl branch in Git.
Oh, that was a bad idea. I
On Jun 1, 2015, at 9:39 AM, Roger Qiu roger@polycademy.com wrote:
I just discovered recently that `man *` where * is anything results in a
segmentation fault.
What does “echo man *” say?
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:
On Jun 1, 2015, at 9:39 AM, Roger Qiu roger@polycademy.com wrote:
I just discovered recently that `man *` where * is anything results in a
segmentation fault.
What does “echo man *” say?
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:
Marco,
PostgreSQL 9.4.2 contains fixes for three security vulnerabilities:
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1587/
--
Yaakov
On 6/1/2015 5:39 PM, Roger Qiu wrote:
Hi,
I just discovered recently that `man *` where * is anything results in a
segmentation fault.
The stackdump is:
As no one else is complaining about it, must be a local
issue of your machine
Everything else seems to work, and I have no idea when this
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
- Right click and select Properties.
- Go to the Security tab.
- Advanced.
For goodness sake, do not do this. Do not break your computer because Cygwin
sucks at permissions. Just read my post on noacl and live with the
A new release of sharutils, 4.15.2-1, has been uploaded and will soon be
available at your favorite mirror. This leaves 4.15-1 as the previous
build.
NEWS:
=
This is a new upstream release.
Using shar on text mounts continues to have the possibility that line
endings on text files might not
A new release of sharutils, 4.15.2-1, has been uploaded and will soon be
available at your favorite mirror. This leaves 4.15-1 as the previous
build.
NEWS:
=
This is a new upstream release.
Using shar on text mounts continues to have the possibility that line
endings on text files might not
Corinna Vinschen writes:
Because of the openssl branch in Git.
Oh, that was a bad idea. I won't remove the branch for historical
reasons, but we don't really want to link agaionst OpenSSL when we
already link against gcrypt.
OK, makes sense.
This was a drop-in replacement for
On 6/2/2015 12:20 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
Marco,
PostgreSQL 9.4.2 contains fixes for three security vulnerabilities:
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1587/
--
Yaakov
I know, I built last week and immediately I received the announce of
coming 9.4.3 so I postponed the upload.
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