Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version

2015-09-26 Thread Walter L.
On 9/26/2015 6:10 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 9/26/2015 5:05 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > > Greetings, Walter L.! > > > > > This is very unfortunate because I'm using Git in Cygwin > > > specifically because it doesn't set the executable bit like Windows > > > applications. > > > > This is, you kno

Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version

2015-09-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/26/2015 4:26 PM, Walter L. wrote: On 9/26/2015 5:05 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Walter L.! > This is very unfortunate because I'm using Git in Cygwin specifically > because it doesn't set the executable bit like Windows applications. This is, you know, configurable?... Which par

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: whois-5.2.10-1

2015-09-26 Thread David Rothenberger
The whois package has been updated to the latest upstream release 5.2.10. The change log can be found here: https://raw.github.com/rfc1036/whois/master/debian/changelog More information about whois can be found at https://github.com/rfc1036/whois DESCRIPTION: whois searches for an

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: scons-2.4.0-1

2015-09-26 Thread David Rothenberger
DESCRIPTION: SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In

Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version

2015-09-26 Thread Walter L.
On 9/26/2015 5:05 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Walter L.! > This is very unfortunate because I'm using Git in Cygwin specifically > because it doesn't set the executable bit like Windows applications. This is, you know, configurable?... Which part? Git or Cygwin? You mean I can configr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.9.2-1

2015-09-26 Thread David Rothenberger
NEWS: = Please see the release notes http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.9.html for more details about the changes in Subversion. See http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.9.2/CHANGES for more details about the changes in 1.9.2. DESCRIPTION: Sub

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: par2

2015-09-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
par2 is now available in the Cygwin distribution. par2 is a file verification and repair tool. It creates and uses PAR2 files to detect damage in data files and repair them if necessary. It can be used with any kind of file. Homepage: https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline Andrew E. Schulman

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: base-files 4.2-4

2015-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Base-files has been updated to version 4.2-4. This is a bugfix release. 4.2-4 (bugfix release) * etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh: Windows only uses 8 characters for files in the WINETC directory. Check if the symlink target exists and remove the symlink if not (to fix "proto

Re: gawk: Bad File Descriptor error with concurrent readonly access to a network file

2015-09-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Marco Atzeri! Can you provide the type of network disk with /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo >> I am sorry, I have a very small installation of Cygwin running with no >> getVolInfo. In which package can I find that? We have MS Windows Server 2008 >> that provides network shares. >>

Re: gawk: Bad File Descriptor error with concurrent readonly access to a network file

2015-09-26 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 26/09/2015 12:00, Vermessung AVT - Wolfgang Rieger wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:58:57 +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: Can you provide the type of network disk with /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo I am sorry, I have a very small installation of Cygwin running with no getVolInfo. In which package can

Re: gawk: Bad File Descriptor error with concurrent readonly access to a network file

2015-09-26 Thread Vermessung AVT - Wolfgang Rieger
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:58:57 +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> "Bad file descriptor" just arose recently in another problem >> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00374.html >> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00436.html >> I don't think this applies to our case. We use massive parallel proc

Re: base-files-4.2-3 : attention maintainer

2015-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > As long as you're updating base-files anyway, maybe you could > implement one of the previously-discussed proposals for showing a > prompt of "#" instead of "$" in shells with sufficient privileges. > Unfortunately, I don't remember if there was ever a consensus reached > on exa

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: Lohit fonts

2015-09-26 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 22/09/2015 05:26, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * lohit-assamese-fonts-2.91.2-1 * lohit-bengali-fonts-2.91.2-1 * lohit-devanagari-fonts-2.95.1-1 * lohit-gujarati-fonts-2.92.2-2 * lohit-gurmukhi-fonts-2.91.0-1 * lohit-kannada-fonts-2

Re: base-files-4.2-3 : attention maintainer

2015-09-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Ken Brown! > As long as you're updating base-files anyway, maybe you could implement > one of the previously-discussed proposals for showing a prompt of "#" > instead of "$" in shells with sufficient privileges. Unfortunately, I > don't remember if there was ever a consensus reached

Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version

2015-09-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Walter L.! > This is very unfortunate because I'm using Git in Cygwin specifically > because it doesn't set the executable bit like Windows applications. This is, you know, configurable?... -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, September 26, 2015 12:04:24 Sorry for my terrib