RE: bad installation ?

2005-03-10 Thread Morrison, John
As maintainer of the package which outputs that message I'm always glad to hear of ways to improve it. Can you suggest a better message? J. -Original Message- From: Matthew Johnson Well, Phil, I read what she posted, and I do NOT think it tells all Banibrata needs to know. The

RE: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang ?

2004-12-21 Thread Morrison, John
From: Reini Urban Christopher Faylor schrieb: We REALLY need to get setup fixed. Is there any hope that you are close to getting this fixed, Max? Why not get rid of the complicated tar = bz2 stack and just check for .tar.bz2 and use a simplified approach then, which makes sure that

RE: configuring X, backspace, ....

2004-12-13 Thread Morrison, John
From: Alexander Gottwald quite strange. I've no special mapping for ç but get it displayed in bash. The .inputrc contains set meta-flag on set output-meta on set convert-meta off and some entries which don't seem to be related The .inputrc file is part of the base-files package. If any

RE: Postinstall scripts and file access issues

2004-08-13 Thread Morrison, John
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:04:29AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Those of you that do not follow the Cygwin list should look at the thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00354.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00280.html

RE: base-files request

2004-06-22 Thread Morrison, John
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, John Morrison wrote: From: Igor Pechtchanski done base-files-manifest.lst ^^^ Shouldn't this be /etc/preremove/base-files-manifest.lst? humm, prob, I didn't know where the script was run from, but a full path would

RE: Request to publish subversion packages after self-review

2004-06-22 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 21 10:15, Morrison, John wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: I guess that's ok. Otherwise this package will never make it into the release so, Max, please upload. *wild applause* Yay! Thanks Max and Corinna :) J. This e-mail has come from Experian International

RE: Request to publish subversion packages after self-review

2004-06-21 Thread Morrison, John
Max Bowsher wrote: No one has reviewed my subversion source package, so I started tried to do it myself, by trying to build in a new clean minimal cygwin install. I found and fixed number of problems - mostly missing build requirements - and a final build in the clean environment completed

RE: Request to publish subversion packages after self-review

2004-06-21 Thread Morrison, John
Max Bowsher wrote: Morrison, John wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: No one has reviewed my subversion source package, so I started tried to do it myself, by trying to build in a new clean minimal cygwin install. I found and fixed number of problems - mostly missing build requirements

RE: libwmf's sdesc and ldesc

2004-06-17 Thread Morrison, John
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi John, Hi all, In libwmf's sdesc and ldesc should Windows and Microsoft have a stroke through the o? (sorry to whoever's language uses this character, I really should know what it's called!) Just wondering, I copied it from the libwmf website, it is also in

RE: [HEADSUP] A new policy. First victim: Gerrit

2004-06-10 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, we've been trying this 3 votes plus review game for a long time now and some people have been packaging a bunch of packages for a while without any real problems. Gerrit is one of the people who's pretty active in adding new packages and his packages are

RE: [ITP] subversion

2004-06-09 Thread Morrison, John
Max Bowsher wrote: Accordingly, I hereby ITP subversion Binary package looks good, checkout works :) +1 for inclusion from me. I've not checked the source package, I don't have all the dependancies installed here. J. This e-mail has come from Experian International: winner of the UK's

RE: [BUG] XFree86-man and openssl define MANPATH in /etc/profile. d

2004-02-16 Thread Morrison, John
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: /etc/profile.d On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: I have been having trouble find manual pages with man for some time, but I haven't had time to investigate it further, because unset MANPATH always restored the functionality. Today I

RE: [Review] sgrep-1.92.1-1 - No good to go yet

2004-01-27 Thread Morrison, John
From: Dr. Volker Zell o The packaging list claims that the sample sgreprc file is located under /etc/defaults/etc/sample.sgreprc but it actually is under /etc/defaults/sgreprc Is this the right location anyway ? and shouldn't it get copied to /usr/share in a postinstall script

RE: [distcc] distcc 2.12 released

2003-12-24 Thread Morrison, John
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:39:43PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: This is great. Thanks for making a quick release to get this in. I have repackaged the distcc package for Cygwin for this new release. Our platform-specific patch now contains only our Cygwin README

RE: /WINDOWS

2003-12-10 Thread Morrison, John
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:15:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 8 11:06, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:27:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 8 14:14, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Good idea, except that I'd personally prefer

RE: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Morrison, John
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi, There are a bunch of applications, which, for security reasons, want to set $PATH to a fixed value. This approach is a bit tricky on Windows, since the needed paths to the Windows system directories are not fixed

RE: [Update][Test] base-passwd

2003-12-02 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:23:28PM -, John Morrison wrote: As per the thread [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root I've modified the base-passwd packaged to remove user and group which match the pattern :S-1-1-0: and ensure that there's a group

RE: [Update][Test] base-passwd

2003-12-02 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:55:11AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:23:28PM -, John Morrison wrote: As per the thread [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root I've modified the base-passwd packaged to remove

RE: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-27 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: John, On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:44:44PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:29:08PM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Eh, no. I was thinking about a postinstall script, which checks for Everyone (S-1-0-0) in /etc/passwd

RE: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-27 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:33:24AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: any chance you can poke the base-passwd script soon, to check for a user and a group with SID S-1-1-0 in the existing /etc/passwd and /etc/group files and remove them silently

RE: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-27 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:05:02AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:33:24AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: any chance you can poke the base-passwd script soon, to check for a user and a group

RE: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-27 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:24:55AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:58:52AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I don't know exactly but it's possible that W2K doesn't have these SeDenyWhatever user rights. editrights

RE: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-27 Thread Morrison, John
OK, took some lunch time ;) Hows this for passwd-grp.sh - #!/bin/sh if [ ! -e /etc/passwd -a ! -L /etc/passwd ] ; then /bin/mkpasswd -l -c /etc/passwd fi if [ ! -e /etc/group -a ! -L /etc/group ] ; then /bin/mkgroup -l -c /etc/group fi cp -f

RE: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-27 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:24:15PM -, Morrison, John wrote: OK, took some lunch time ;) Hows this for passwd-grp.sh - #!/bin/sh if [ ! -e /etc/passwd -a ! -L /etc/passwd ] ; then /bin/mkpasswd -l -c /etc/passwd fi

RE: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Pack ages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-25 Thread Morrison, John
Christopher Faylor wrote: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22) On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:17:51PM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: On 2003-11-24T11:01-0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: ) On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:55:40AM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: ) For now it's just in my records. Even if it is

RE: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22

2003-11-24 Thread Morrison, John
Daniel Reed wrote: On 2003-11-22T20:05-, John Morrison wrote: ) base-files ... !!! no source and no external-source ) base-passwd ... !!! no source and no external-source ) There is no source for these packages, they just contain ) shell and postinstall scripts. Should I do something?

RE: Updated: keychain-2.0.3-1

2003-11-24 Thread Morrison, John
Hack Kampbjorn wrote: The shell profile file (e.g. ~/.bash_profile for bash) has to be updated to reflect this change: keychain ~/.ssh/id_rsa . ~/.keychain/${HOSTNAME}-sh There exists a /etc/skel/.bash_profile, would it be a good idea to add (one of?) these lines (commented out) to

RE: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:22:50PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 05:58 PM 11/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: What about generating a root group with mkgroup -l by default? root:S-1-5-32-544:0: The question is then, should it *also* generate an administrators entry

RE: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-12 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:25:21AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:22:50PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 05:58 PM 11/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: What about generating a root group with mkgroup -l by default? root:S

RE: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-07

2003-11-11 Thread Morrison, John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package recompiled and example noved to: /etc/defaults/etc/sample.sgreprc as suggested in Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:35:36 +0100 by Daniel Reed Jari, *please* call it /etc/defaults/etc/.sgreprc and copy *ONLY* if /etc/.sgreprc doesn't

RE: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-07

2003-11-11 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:19:19PM -, Morrison, John wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package recompiled and example noved to: /etc/defaults/etc/sample.sgreprc as suggested in Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:35:36 +0100 by Daniel Reed

RE: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-07

2003-11-11 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:48:59PM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: The other problem is that files with leading dot are not visible with `ls' by default. Giving it a name in the default dir, which makes it visible, isn't a bad idea, IMHO

RE: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-07

2003-11-11 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:08:45PM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Wait, I thought we're talking about a system-wide sgreprc file which is expected in /usr/share. Did I get that wrong? AFAICR, the postinstall for sgrep copies the sample from

RE: [ITP][update] distcc

2003-10-08 Thread Morrison, John
Morrison, John wrote: 2.11.1 has just been released... Original from http://distcc.samba.org This is a first attempt. It still needs quite a lot of setup to use. I'm working on the postinstall which will do more of the work, but I thought this might be of use to some folk as it stands

RE: [ITP] distcc

2003-10-07 Thread Morrison, John
Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Daniel Reed wrote: On 2003-10-06T15:20+0100, Morrison, John wrote: snipwork appended stuff/snip Can you clarify this note, or was its inclusion a mistake? Any message sent to the cygwin-apps mailing list will be archived and made publicly

[Update] base-files 2.5-1

2003-09-02 Thread Morrison, John
The test for mk[passwd|group|group_l_d] and the resulting messages are as safe as we (Igor and Pierre premier amongst others) can make it. Some other safeguards improved. Thanks, J. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/md5sum md5sum for base-file-2.0-3.tar.bz2 =

RE: /etc/profile, mk[passwd|group|group_l_d] messages

2003-08-29 Thread Morrison, John
OK, so I think the script as stands is... case `id -ng` in mkpasswd ) echo Your group is currently \mkpasswd\. This indicates that echo the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. echo See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run echo mkpasswd

/etc/profile, mk[passwd|group|group_l_d] messages

2003-08-28 Thread Morrison, John
Hi all, Igor and I have been having a chat about the warning/error messages which appear when there's something wrong with /etc/[passwd|group]. Here's what we are considering so far... case `id -ng` in mkpasswd ) echo The /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files need to be rebuilt.

RE: Update: wtf-0.0.4-1

2003-08-28 Thread Morrison, John
I get a load of mdoc warnings about Empty input line when I run man wtf. Don't know if it's an issue. J. == Information in this email and any attachments are confidential, and may not be copied or used by anyone other than

RE: /etc/profile, mk[passwd|group|group_l_d] messages

2003-08-28 Thread Morrison, John
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: John, I like having 3 separate messages. Perhaps you could add an introduction such as echo Your group is currently \mkpasswd\. This indicates that .. Good idea :) The first two cases should never occur, except in rare cases of postinstall screw up or if

RE: 2.3-1 (was [update] base-files (2.2-1))

2003-08-21 Thread Morrison, John
Elfyn McBratney wrote: John Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last update (fingers crossed!) for a while. Oh well, not to be :) Uploaded. Would you also accept the following patch for your next release? It elliminates an annoying warning when /etc/profile.d/ doesn't exist. snip

[update] base-files (2.1)

2003-08-19 Thread Morrison, John
Fixed some of the issues folks have been emailing about, regtool -q, quotes, defaults for other shells, mk[passwd|group[_l_d]], could somebody upload? Thanks, J. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/md5sum md5sum for base-file-2.1-1.tar.bz2 =

RE: New package: wtf-0.0.3-1

2003-08-18 Thread Morrison, John
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: wtf(6) is a utility provided by some UNIX and UNIX-like systems including Slackware Linux and NetBSD. It translates acronyms and filename suffixes by looking up the definition of a term in various databases. I've added the OLOCA (http://cygwin.com/acronyms/) to

RE: Re: [update] base-files

2003-08-15 Thread Morrison, John
Minor change from Cary D. Renzema, put around the ${groupID} variable. Cary, I didn't do the 'if [ -z $MANPATH ]; then' change you recommended for two reasons; 1, if the variable is empty appending it has no effect anyway and 2, only one set of data needs to be maintained. OK, so I could do

Subscribers only...

2003-08-14 Thread Morrison, John
Hi all, I tried to send an email to -apps this morning from one of my home accounts, it bounced because that account is not actually subscribed. I actually have one subscribed account which .forwards to others. Would it be possible (all meaness aside ;) to have one subscribed address for

RE: Re: [update] base-files

2003-08-14 Thread Morrison, John
Igor, Thanks! On this machine (it's domain rather than home which isn't) $ mkgroup -cl | grep mkgroup_l_d mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-21-1491927668-2094530616-1660491571-1141:11141: I'll just add it to the test with the same message, it'll be repackaged in a minute or two (will post then). Thanks

RE: Re: [update] base-files

2003-08-14 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:37:27PM +0100, Morrison, John wrote: Added mkgroup_l_d check http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base- files/md5sum md5sum for base-file-2.0-2.tar.bz2 = 5d112cfd0b17195e7dcef6cc174cb4d1 http

RE: [update] base-files

2003-08-14 Thread Morrison, John
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: John, On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, John Morrison wrote: At last, a new version of base-files to try :) [snip] I've also added a test for id -ng = mkpasswd or = mkgroup along with a message. Hopefully this might cut down on the number of I have

RE: Re: [update] base-files

2003-08-14 Thread Morrison, John
Added mkgroup_l_d check http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/md5sum md5sum for base-file-2.0-2.tar.bz2 = 5d112cfd0b17195e7dcef6cc174cb4d1 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/base-fil es-2.0-2.tar.bz2 md5sum for setup.hint =

RE: 4.3.0 Cygwin 1.3.x build and packaging nearly done

2003-08-01 Thread Morrison, John
David Fraser wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: So, my question for the community is whether anyone wants me to post the 4.3.0 release as the new stable release and make another build for Cygwin 1.5.1 and post that as the test release. Or, would everyone rather that I wait and just make the

RE: [ITP] wtf

2003-07-29 Thread Morrison, John
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: As per John Morrison's suggestion, I would like to contribute and maintain wtf (http://cronus.comp.utas.edu.au/~thsutton/computing/wtf.html). wtf(6) is a utility provided by some UNIX and UNIX-like systems including Slackware Linux and NetBSD. It translates

Acronyms

2003-07-28 Thread Morrison, John
I just found this, thought it might be fun to package http://cronus.comp.utas.edu.au/~thsutton/computing/wtf.html and add the cygwin specific acronyms :) http://cygwin.com/acronyms/ snip from=the man page wtf - translates acronyms and filename suffixes for you. The wtf program looks-up the

RE: Acronyms

2003-07-28 Thread Morrison, John
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Morrison, John wrote: I just found this, thought it might be fun to package http://cronus.comp.utas.edu.au/~thsutton/computing/wtf.html and add the cygwin specific acronyms :) http://cygwin.com/acronyms/ snip from=the man page wtf

RE: Building setup.exe

2003-07-24 Thread Morrison, John
Max Bowsher wrote: John Morrison wrote: Hi Max, Please excuse me for writting to you off list, but I am trying to compile the setup app. Again. You are excused, Thanks :) since I definitely want to help people compile setup, but I'm redirecting to the list, as this is relevant there,

RE: Building setup.exe

2003-07-24 Thread Morrison, John
Max Bowsher wrote: Morrison, John wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: It seems the instructions are out of date. You need to run ./bootstrap.sh in setup (and it will recurse into libgetopt++). bootstrap.sh isn't executable as checkedout of cvs... Hmm. Just checked, and libgetopt++/bootstrap.sh

RE: Building setup.exe

2003-07-24 Thread Morrison, John
Max Bowsher wrote: Morrison, John wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Morrison, John wrote: $ make release snipcompiling messages/snip windres --preprocessor gcc -mno-cygwin -E -xc-header -DRC_INVOKED --include-dir . -o res.o res.rc make: *** No rule to make target `zlib/libzcygw.a', needed

RE: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-22 Thread Morrison, John
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Throwing an exception would indicate a problem actually, if you want to get all by-the-book about it. I'm with Gary here, I'd prefer see an exception thrown for a problem. Unless there's some issues with using exceptions that I don't know about... (which, given

RE: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-21 Thread Morrison, John
Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 04:17, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Unless there will ever be a need to ask a page whether it would take activation in the future, but not activate it immediately, even if it is possible to do so, I think the 2 calls should be merged. Will there ever

RE: joe-2.8 - a new package for review

2003-07-04 Thread Morrison, John
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] drwxr-xr-x root/None 0 2003-07-04 14:17:34 etc/joe/ -rw-r--r-- root/None 17169 2003-07-04 14:17:34 etc/joe/joerc -rw-r--r-- root/None 16344 2003-07-04 14:17:34 etc/joe/jmacsrc -rw-r--r-- root/None 15142 2003-07-04

RE: joe-2.8 - a new package for review

2003-07-04 Thread Morrison, John
From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello John, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] drwxr-xr-x root/None 0 2003-07-04 14:17:34 etc/joe/ -rw-r--r-- root/None 17169 2003-07-04 14:17:34 etc/joe/joerc [...] These would be better copied into

RE: String and std::string

2003-03-21 Thread Morrison, John
Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 23:12, Alex Tibbles wrote: snip I don't care whether you use std::string, or String++ for any new code, as long as: 1) You don't leak memory (std::string will leak if you use c_str()) IIRC. I've been unable to confirm this. I tried the

RE: ntsec patch for setup

2003-02-28 Thread Morrison, John
Sorry guys, that should have been to the list. From: Pierre A. Humblet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 22:44, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Here is the same patch modified to be applied on main.cc from setup-200207 branch. This looks reasonable.

RE: [PATCH] default XKB settings

2003-02-24 Thread Morrison, John
Harold, Works for me (w2k, sp3, Microsoft Natural keyboard, English layout). Only thing is the ? (GB pound) doesn't print anything, but that doesn't bother me overly atm. J. From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Alexander, I released this in Test78/4.2.0-26. Please test and

defaults

2002-12-02 Thread Morrison, John
Hi all. This has been at the back of my mind for awhile now since having to do something for /etc/profile.default. What I'm thinking of is a directory structure containing default files and a script which, if the original of the default file doesn't exist, copies it. I'm specifically thinking

RE: Sorry Robert, your bugfix hasn't entirely worked.

2002-11-25 Thread Morrison, John
From: Max Bowsher PS: Attached is a patch which colour-codes version numbers in setup. Obviously its going to require much discussion before checkin, but it is what allowed me to notice the bug so easily. The colour code is: Dark Blue:[curr] Cyan:[prev] Yellow-Brown: [prev]

RE: cygwin-mketc.sh

2002-10-28 Thread Morrison, John
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin [mailto:joshuadfranklin;yahoo.com] I don't know if it's possible to really 'vote' for cygwin-mketc.sh since it's not a package, but I tested it on my Win2000 Pro PC and it worked fine. I like the idea of it and it should help the occasional user that creates

RE: base-files-mketc.sh

2002-10-28 Thread Morrison, John
From: Paul Johnston [mailto:paj;pajhome.org.uk] Hi John, It's true that it doesn't work with the broken cygpath, but it doesn't do anything bad in that case, and the bug is very clearly with the cygpath binary. One thought I had was to add the second line to this error message:

RE: base-files-mketc.sh

2002-10-28 Thread Morrison, John
From: Morrison, John [mailto:John.Morrison;uk.experian.com] (I hate replying to myself :( From: Paul Johnston [mailto:paj;pajhome.org.uk] Hi John, It's true that it doesn't work with the broken cygpath, but it doesn't do anything bad in that case, and the bug is very clearly

RE: base-files-mketc.sh

2002-10-28 Thread Morrison, John
From: Paul Johnston [mailto:paj;pajhome.org.uk] Hi, Cygpath is part of the cygwin package. I'm running the current latest 1.3.14-1, which was compiled on Wed, 23 Oct. It still has the bug. Perhaps this should be fixed first? Yes, I agree. The problem was something to do with

RE: ssh patches to fix installation issues

2002-10-24 Thread Morrison, John
The default umask has been changed, but the new /etc/profile won't have overwrote your old one. J. From: Ross Smith II [mailto:ross;smithii.com] Attached are three small patches to the following files: /bin/ssh-host-config /bin/ssh-user-config /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.4p1-5.README

RE: ssh patches to fix installation issues

2002-10-24 Thread Morrison, John
The default umask has been changed, but the new /etc/profile won't have overwrote your old one. J. From: Ross Smith II [mailto:ross;smithii.com] Attached are three small patches to the following files: /bin/ssh-host-config /bin/ssh-user-config /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.4p1-5.README

RE: Pending packages status

2002-09-30 Thread Morrison, John
(sorry Pavel, ment to sent to list!) From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 1. doxygen version: 1.2.18-1 status : reviewed, fixed package is available for review reviews: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-09/msg00107.html votes : 4 (Joshua, Lapo, Nicholas and Robert) You

RE: [RFC] gpg signed packages [Was: unofficial packages]

2002-09-25 Thread Morrison, John
I think, if this key thing goes ahead, somebody is going to have to come up with a *very* detailed method of getting a key and signing things with regards to cygwin stuff. Making a package for cygwin _is_ not easy for people who grew up in windows. I'm sure it's put lot's of people off

RE: And one more package, astyle Re: New Package: doxygen-1.2.17

2002-09-11 Thread Morrison, John
From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Update: procps (reviewed, 5 votes, John, Lapo, Nicholas, Robert and me, discussion needed) doxygen (reviewed, 3 votes, Lapo and Robert, package cleanup needed(?)) astyle (reviewed, 2 votes, Gareth and Lapo,

RE: procps

2002-09-03 Thread Morrison, John
From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Guys, I'm still missing the pro votes. Looks OK to me. Unpacked, man pages/docs OK, didn't have any problems with the quick test of any of the exes... J. ===

RE: [ITP][FINAL] base-files, base-passwd

2002-09-03 Thread Morrison, John
From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Anything you want me to do? Keep your files at those URL's. I've a *bunch* of cygwin work to do, and will upload when I do that. Ack :) Not a problem. Do nothing - yep, can comply with that :) J.

RE: procps

2002-09-03 Thread Morrison, John
From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:52:02AM +0100, Morrison, John wrote: From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Guys, I'm still missing the pro votes. Looks OK to me. Unpacked, man pages/docs OK, didn't have any

RE: [ITP][FINAL] base-files, base-passwd

2002-09-02 Thread Morrison, John
From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 03:44, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 05:58:27PM +0100, John Morrison wrote: Hi All, Rob would *really* like to get this functionality out of setup... It's easy enough for Rob to coordinate.

RE: /etc/profile package maintainer (Was: problems with XFree)

2002-07-25 Thread Morrison, John
From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 20:14, David Starks-Browning wrote: On 25 Jul 02, in cygwin-xfree, Robert Collins writes: I've been trying for *ages* to get /etc/profile to be an external file. All' it needs is *someone* willing to be a package

RE: /etc/profile package maintainer (Was: problems with XFree)

2002-07-25 Thread Morrison, John
From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 20:14, David Starks-Browning wrote: On 25 Jul 02, in cygwin-xfree, Robert Collins writes: I've been trying for *ages* to get /etc/profile to be an external file. All' it needs is *someone* willing to be a package

RE: rebase problem for cygcurl-2.dll still existing?!

2002-07-16 Thread Morrison, John
Can you strip a rebased DLL? From: Stipe Tolj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Kevin, I guess I know what the problem is about your packaged cygcurl-2.dll. In both current packages 7.9.6-1 and 7.9.8-1 you have packaged a stripped DLL. It seems when you rebase a stripped DLL the resulting

RE: rebase problem for cygcurl-2.dll still existing?!

2002-07-16 Thread Morrison, John
From: Jason Tishler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:46:18AM +0100, Morrison, John wrote: Can you strip a rebased DLL? Yes. Does it work (as opposed to a rebased stripped DLL) was the intended question ;) J

RE: New Cygwin package? (fwd)

2002-07-10 Thread Morrison, John
(Sorry Robert - ment to send to list!) Just pulled the source - looks like C++ to me :) J. From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I quite like the concept of a GUI for sftp, and as it uses cygwin1.dll, it's definitely in the right line of software to be an inclusion candidate.

RE: SETUP: Is chooser integration as setup page really a good idea?

2002-05-02 Thread Morrison, John
Can't the window be resizable? It would be nice to integrate it because if it looses the focus you can't alt-tab to it atm :( J. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Also if (some time) functionality is added to show the ldesc than we even need more space (or a separate

RE: Release directory and Setup

2002-04-17 Thread Morrison, John
From: Gary R. Van Sickle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Would it be a good idea to number the setup.exe's in the same manner as all other packages and keep them in the new release (under /setup?) directory? The download could then proceed as usual except the warning that there's a new

Release directory and Setup

2002-04-16 Thread Morrison, John
Hi All, I've done a quick grep but didn't throw anything useful up, so please excuse me if the idea has been fielded before. Would it be a good idea to number the setup.exe's in the same manner as all other packages and keep them in the new release (under /setup?) directory? The download could

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-4.2a-1

2002-01-14 Thread Morrison, John
From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Note to python, postgres, and units maintainers: Binaries within your packages are linked against cygreadline5.dll. I have taken the following actions: units: didn't include readline in the requires: field (although it should have

RE: which which

2002-01-02 Thread Morrison, John
Personally, I'd rather identify the apps which _arn't_ GNU. I didn't know that the (current) version of which for cygwin wasn't the GNU version. This ment that I kept wondering why it wasn't in 'sync' with the 'latest' GNU one. -Original Message- From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL

setup.hint

2001-12-21 Thread Morrison, John
Would it be a good idea for the setup.hint file to have something along the lines of: Maintainer: John Morrison Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? This would allow folks to email the maintainer directly without having to bug the list. For example, I didn't know that Corinna was the maintainer of the

RE: setup.hint

2001-12-21 Thread Morrison, John
-Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:21:44AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Would it be a good idea for the setup.hint file to have something along the lines of: Maintainer: John Morrison Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: which which

2001-12-21 Thread Morrison, John
-Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:37:31PM -, Morrison, John wrote: -Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Morrison, John wrote: And here's the setup.hint

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sourceware: units-1.77-1

2001-12-21 Thread Morrison, John
I've uploaded units-1.77-1 to the Cygwin net distribution. The 'units' program converts quantities expressed in various scales to their equivalents in other scales. The 'units' program can handle multiplicative scale changes as well as nonlinear conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius.

RE: bash completion (was: RE: Units)

2001-12-20 Thread Morrison, John
I found a problem with the bash_completion as stands... I have a path ~/Applications/Apache Group/ with no other directory in Applications starting with 'A'. When I cd ~/Applications/A[tab] it doesn't autocomplete. When I look through the shell script I can see... snippit # Turn on extended

RE: bash completion (was: RE: Units)

2001-12-20 Thread Morrison, John
-Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2001 11:22 am To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units) On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:02:07AM -, Morrison, John wrote: I found a problem

RE: Units

2001-12-20 Thread Morrison, John
December 2001 11:29 am To: Morrison, John Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Units On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:40:35PM -, Morrison, John wrote: Hi, I've packaged up the latest version of units. I've just uploaded it to sourceware. You might consider to send a message to [EMAIL

which which

2001-12-20 Thread Morrison, John
If you'll pardon the pun, which version of which are we running? The GNU version is currently 2.13 and I just wondered if folks would like and update...? (it compiles OOTB) J. === Information in this email and any

RE: which which

2001-12-20 Thread Morrison, John
I wasn't sure that: 1) we were using the GNU which (which --version doesn't work) and 2) by offering to update the package I wouldn't be offending the current(?) maintainer. J. BTW - It wasn't 1.5 in particular I wanted to know but whether it was the GNU which we were using. Which's are

RE: Units

2001-12-20 Thread Morrison, John
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:39:13AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Thanks. Will do. btw, since you prob a *lot* more about bash than I do (since you're the maintainer for cygwin ;) have you any idea's why that's scripts messing cd's auto completion up? Prepared

RE: which which

2001-12-20 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna - is there any pro's/cons (besides not maintaining your own version) for/against using the GNU version? J. -Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2001 12:47 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: which which On

RE: which which

2001-12-20 Thread Morrison, John
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: which which On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:29:54PM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna - is there any pro's/cons (besides not maintaining your own version) for/against using the GNU version? Dunno. I never compared them. If you compare them and you're

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