Rodrigo de Salvo Braz writes:
The point would be to bring this to the attention of the people
being negative. By seeing that not just one person feels like that,
people may decide to stop and think whether their ways are
constructive. Hopefully this would effect a change for the better.
Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Many things about setup.exe make no sense. Since I took over
maintainership of setup.exe a few months ago, I'm slowly working on
making it more sensible.
Any chance you might add the -a switch to make unattended
installation possible without simulating
Christopher Faylor writes:
Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility that could be
pressed into service for use with cygwin?
NSIS has already been mentioned.
The other open-source utility I know of is Inno Setup
(http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php).
But if you really want to do
Clif J. Smith writes:
I'm trying to rsync data from a WinXP system running Cygwin to a Fedora
Core 2 system. When running the following command from my Fedora
system, it'll build a file list for a while, but never actually sync
anything and complete:
# /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete
Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 07:54 AM 5/8/2004, you wrote:
Do not feed the trolls.
Which troll is that?
Oh, I just assumed that was what you considered me.
While I respect your right to voice your opinions here, the reason I
responded was that I didn't want anyone to
Do not feed the trolls. I honestly did not expect any replies; I
hate these discussions as much as anybody. I will keep this brief.
Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then your gripe is with the GPL. The point is, whether you agree
with all the tenants of the license or not, you cannot
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As I am sure you know, mentioning the GPL always starts a Rube
Goldberg reaction of interpretation from would-be lawyers, zealots,
or people who are unsatisfied with following the rules and assume
they should have more rights to the software than
Igor Pechtchanski writes:
- if you don't mind a *HUGE* download, simply give a -a command-line
option to setup
As far as I can tell, looking at current CVS sources, the -a option
has not yet been implemented.
As I may have mentioned, it sure would be a nice option to have. Last
I read, the
How about command-line switches for unattended installation? This
would be useful for deploying Cygwin in any non-toy environment.
It should be as simple as applying Edward Peschko's patches:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00261.html
The -a option is the vital one. Downloading
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Otherwise, I can't think of a specific thing to point at and say
Work on that. Maybe serial support?
What about fixing the Cygwin deadlocks due to broken select() when
writing to pipes bug?
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01807.html
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:23PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
maybe then having your 'finger on the button' isn't the right response?
Maybe tolerance is in order? maybe letting people voice their opinions
without a verbal smackdown? And maybe,
When starting a login shell using the current release of Cygwin, I get
the error:
bash: [: too many arguments
I tracked this down to my group name having a space in it (Domain
Users). Fix for /etc/profile is below.
- Pat
Date: 20 Aug 2003 14:56:24 -0400
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kensuke Matsuzaki writes:
I can't reproduce that bug.
Please send /tmp/XWin.log
I forgot to mention that this is on a CPU with hyperthreading
enabled. I suspect SMP has something to do with the bug...
Also, when I reproduced the problem from a Cygwin shell, I got a
message I had not seen
This is with Cygwin 1.3.22, XFree86-base 4.2.0-1, and XFree86-xserv
4.2.0-42. The crash occurs both with Windows 2000 and XP.
I downloaded Cygwin+XFree86 yesterday, and I am able to crash XWin.exe
routinely. To reproduce on a fresh Cygwin+XFree86 installation, do:
echo localhost
argument.
Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
[snip, yeah I'll bite]
My main point is that an engineer has as much business interpreting
law as a salesperson has telling an engineer how to design a system.
PFHHTcarbonated beverage shoots out nose
Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
FWIW: I am not a lawyer.
And therefore, everything you have said may be safely ignored.
Until this alleged GPL violator receives a cease and desist order
from an attorney, he has no reason to even consider modifying his
behavior. (Except to be polite,
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yeah, and isn't it a *shame* that when I suggest that people should
try a snapshot, they never do? The only way I have to test new
features is to release a new version of cygwin, apparently. And,
then listen to the complaints.
A bug report is
Cary Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does setup.exe support a non graphical environment.
Not yet. However, you can use AutoIt to create your own unattended
(though not silent) install. See:
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html#cygwin
- Pat
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Rajagopalan, Karthik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hve selected package to be installed from cygwin setup. I want my
clients to have the same selection made when they click setup of
cygwin in their system.
Can anyone suggest me a way of doing it.
You can use AutoIT for this.
See
Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While running a big recursive make under Cygwin 1.3.18-1 on an SMP
system, I am getting occasional failures like these:
C:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe: *** can't create title mutex, Win32 error 6
C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** can't create title mutex
While running a big recursive make under Cygwin 1.3.18-1 on an SMP
system, I am getting occasional failures like these:
C:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe: *** can't create title mutex, Win32 error 6
C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** can't create title mutex, Win32 error 6
I am appending the output from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Foller, Timo) writes:
Hello,
I want to start an unattended installation of Cygwin Environment.
The Installation should be merged with the Operating System Windows 2000
Professional.
What about the specific parameters (setup.exe)???
Is it also possible?
I believe the
The Perl script below should give you a better error message. Just
save it as shutdown.pl; run it with --help for usage instructions.
You need to run it under ActiveState Perl, not Cygwin Perl. (Unless
Cygwin Perl includes the Win32API module, which I believe it does
not.)
- Pat
# Shut down
Bruce Alderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know that setup.exe doesn't currently support batch operations
... how much effort would it be to add? Is it planned? Is there a
better way to install it in a batch manner?
Until the unattended mode support for setup.exe is finished, you might
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