[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnupg2-2.2.27-1

2021-01-17 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin
Version 2.2.27-1 of gnupg2 is available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES Latest upstream security fix release https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q1/000452.html DESCRIPTION The GNU Privacy Guard GnuPG is a command line tool without any graphical user interface. I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ed-1.17-1

2021-01-17 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin
New version 1.17-1 of ed is available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES It is a upstream bugfix release. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-01/msg00010.html DESCRIPTION GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-17 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 1:08 PM matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: > I haven't run into a scenario yet where 'readlink' doesn't work. > Here's a unrelated example where symbolic links don't work the same as on unix/linux ( not sure this is a readlink issue ) When I try to write through /proc

Re: pylint: ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

2021-01-17 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 17.01.2021 11:23, Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin wrote: On 2021-01-17, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: Only pylint is available in Cygwin. May be I haven't tried hard but I see no anything corresponding to Debian's: pycodestyle (or pep8) python3-pyflakes python3-mccabe python3-p

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-17 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Sunday, January 17, 2021, 02:41:35 PM EST, Brian Inglis wrote: > Sorry, it's been a few years now - there were a few issues testing various > paths > using various directories and links that neither readlink nor > realpath resolved > absolutely and correctly, so I added the cygpath to

Re: How to reinstall everything?

2021-01-17 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Sunday, January 17, 2021, 02:44:37 PM EST, Achim Gratz wrote: >matthew patton via Cygwin writes: >> can we fix setup.exe to read STDIN with '-P', like so?  >> echo 'pkg1,pkg2,pkg3' | setup.exe -P - > You probably forgot that setup is a Windows program.  besides, you must > not start it f

Re: How to reinstall everything?

2021-01-17 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 17.01.2021 um 19:23 schrieb matthew patton via Cygwin: can we fix setup.exe to read STDIN with '-P', like so? To fix something, it has to be broken first. I don't see that being the case here. echo 'pkg1,pkg2,pkg3' | setup.exe -P - I don't see that in any way easier or more helpful th

Re: How to reinstall everything?

2021-01-17 Thread Achim Gratz
matthew patton via Cygwin writes: > can we fix setup.exe to read STDIN with '-P', like so?  > echo 'pkg1,pkg2,pkg3' | setup.exe -P - You probably forgot that setup is a Windows program. besides, you must not start it from the Cygwin that you are about to install a package into. Regards, Achim.

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2021-01-17 11:11, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Brian Inglis! On Friday, January 15, 2021, 11:36:28 AM EST, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: On 2021-01-15 10:09, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: Ken Brown wrote: Do you by any chance have symlinks in your PATH? There was a problem reported

Re: How to reinstall everything?

2021-01-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2021-01-17 11:23, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: can we fix setup.exe to read STDIN with '-P', like so? $ echo 'pkg1,pkg2,pkg3' | setup.exe -P - and even more useful if the argument can be space delimited. $ setup.exe -P pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 or if that's too much $ setup.exe -P pkg1 -P pkg2 -P pkg

Re: How to reinstall everything?

2021-01-17 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
can we fix setup.exe to read STDIN with '-P', like so?  echo 'pkg1,pkg2,pkg3' | setup.exe -P - and even more useful if the argument can be space delimited.setup.exe -P pkg1 pkg2 pkg3or if that's too muchsetup.exe -P pkg1 -P pkg2 -P pkg3 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Brian Inglis! > On Friday, January 15, 2021, 11:36:28 AM EST, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: >> On 2021-01-15 10:09, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: >>> Ken Brown wrote: Do you by any chance have symlinks in your PATH? There was a problem reported in early December in which

Re: Ssh

2021-01-17 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
please reply to mailing list, thanks On 17.01.2021 18:30, Jim McNamara wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 12:04 PM Marco Atzeri via Cygwin mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com>> wrote: On 17.01.2021 17:26, Jim McNamara via Cygwin wrote: > Hi- > > If I am trying to ssh by local port forward

Re: Cygwin version control location

2021-01-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2021-01-16 23:31, Kyle Marek via Cygwin wrote: On 1/17/21 12:56 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 17.01.2021 06:01, Kyle Marek via Cygwin wrote: Hello, Where are the version control repositories for packages missing from https://cygwin.com/git/ and https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-package

Re: Ssh

2021-01-17 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 17.01.2021 17:26, Jim McNamara via Cygwin wrote: Hi- If I am trying to ssh by local port forwarding from machine A to remote host B, do I need cygserv or sshd running on A? No. You need sshd (ssh demon) on B B is the sshd server I want to connect to. A is the ssh client. If I test eithe

Ssh

2021-01-17 Thread Jim McNamara via Cygwin
Hi- If I am trying to ssh by local port forwarding from machine A to remote host B, do I need cygserv or sshd running on A? B is the sshd server I want to connect to. A is the ssh client. If I test either vnc or ssh on linux virtual machine guest it connects no problem. For some reason NAT is n

Re: Cygwin version control location

2021-01-17 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 05:01, Kyle Marek wrote: > Where are the version control repositories for packages missing from > https://cygwin.com/git/ and https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/ like > bash and git? Quoting my response to someone asking a similar question back in December (https://cygwi

Re: pylint: ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

2021-01-17 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin
On 2021-01-17, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > This explain the status problem: > > $ grep -e "pylint" -e "logilab" cygwin-pkg-maint > pylint ORPHANED (Jari Aalto) > python-logilab-astng ORPHANED (Jari Aalto) > python-logilab-common

Re: Can't open display issue from CMD

2021-01-17 Thread Sal Bellofiore via Cygwin
OK I figured out the issue. Inside .bashrc (in the Linux remote machine), I was executing xrdb every time I was logging in, but I only meant it to execute it when requesting xterm. So, I included the following lines in .bashrc, and everything works. Thank you berndbausch! You were spot on!