Setup.exe 2.457.2.2: spin button won't allow me to reinstall coreutils

2005-02-12 Thread Steve Munson
s attached. Cygcheck ended with the message, "cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 1" Steve Munson cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documen

Re: setup.hint coreutils editing (was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.2.1-3)

2005-01-23 Thread Steve Munson
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:45:07 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Yes, good point. I've swept through the setup.hints, changed all of the > fileutils|sh-utils|textutils to 'coreutils', and removed duplicates. > ... > AFAICT, my list coincided with yours so everything should be up-to-date > now. Ac

Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs (FAQ alert)

2005-01-23 Thread Steve Munson
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:32:08 -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > I like the idea of it at least saving mounts. And the paths should work > (note the "bin"). :) The only thing I would change is to save the state of the mounts within the uninstall script (just before uninstalling), rather than

1.5.12-1: documentation bug in lib[cm].texinfo

2005-01-22 Thread Steve Munson
>From the info dir file in /usr/share/info, you can't get to the info files for libc or libm, because their entries are wrong. The file cygwin-1.5.12-1/newlib/libc/libc.texinfo in the source distribution for cygwin-1.5.12-1 contains the following lines near the top of the file: START-INFO-DIR-ENT

Re: putting cygwin *installation* on CD

2005-01-21 Thread Steve Munson
se, when you delete or overwrite files, the original file contents still take up room on the CD-R, but they are no longer accessible. The advantage is that the files are not read only as they are on a CD-ROM. This preserves the file attributes, unlike recording to a read-only CD-R. Just a th

Re: How do I get an old version of cygwin?

2005-01-18 Thread Steve Munson
ave to do this myself. I don't have old sources, though--only binaries. Let me know if you want them. Steve Munson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

find -printf %TT doesn't print the time anymore (findutils versions 4.2.10-3 to 20041227-1, cygwin 1.5.12-1)

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Munson
formats with the find command. I just wondered if anyone had noticed that find hasn't matched its documentation since version 4.2.10-3 on 12/7/04. Particularly, the formats %Tr, %TT, %TD, and %T+ don't work anymore. The real problem may be deeper down in the strftime function in li