Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

Hi. One more sugestion: use -e test instead of -r, because Perl -r is not allways reliable in mixed Cygwin/Windows environment. (Cygwin terminal) $ perl -e "if( -r 'Cygwin/http%3A%2F%2Fgd.tuwien.ac.at%2Fgnu%2Fcygwin%2F/x86/setup.ini'){print 'readable'}else{print 'cant read'}" cant read $

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

On 6.7.2016 7:17, Warren Young wrote: if the mirror was used for both an x86 and x86_64 installation, it always uses the x86 setup.ini, regardless of the current architecture. Good catch! The script now uses the output of uname -m to select the mirror subdirectory. Hi, this is not

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

On Jul 3, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > > it doesn't take dependency loops into account I’ve fixed that using your proposed “Dependency order” solution. I haven’t analyzed the output, but it is a bit longer than the last time, so I assume it has saved me from dropping all packages in a

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

On Jul 5, 2016, at 6:11 AM, KARL BOTTS wrote: > > I have been using 32-bit Cygwin for at least 15 > years, and being without it throws me into a tizzy. 64-bit Cygwin installs in parallel to 32-bit Cygwin, not over the top of it. If your 64-bit adventure is a complete failure,

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

On 7/5/2016 9:59 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 7/3/2016 10:02 AM, Ken Brown wrote: This script has a couple of problems. First, it doesn't take dependency loops into account. For example, if package p requires q and q requires p, then both will be marked as non-root. Second, if the mirror was

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

On 7/3/2016 10:02 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 7/1/2016 7:38 PM, Warren Young wrote: On Jul 1, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Warren Young wrote: I’ve written a script to do that automatically. I’ve improved the script so that it no longer requires any parameters. It finds the last-used setup.ini file and

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

KARL BOTTS usa.net> writes: > I am just a little nervous. I have been using 32-bit Cygwin for at least 15 > years, and being without it throws me into a tizzy. (I barely know how to use > WindowsExplorer.) Are there any gotchas I should know about? Here's another way to do it.

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

Karl Botts>> I use Cygwin32 on Windows-64. Warren Young> Then you’re artificially making rebase’s job harder. > The list of 32-bit-only Cygwin packages is tiny these days, and you’ve just > rebuilt your Cygwin environment. With my new find-cyg-roots script, you could > rebuild your current

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

On 7/1/2016 7:38 PM, Warren Young wrote: On Jul 1, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Warren Young wrote: I’ve written a script to do that automatically. I’ve improved the script so that it no longer requires any parameters. It finds the last-used setup.ini file and extracts the list of currently-installed

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

On Jul 1, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > I’ve written a script to do that automatically. I’ve improved the script so that it no longer requires any parameters. It finds the last-used setup.ini file and extracts the list of currently-installed packages, all on its own. Thus,

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

On Jul 1, 2016, at 4:12 PM, KARL BOTTS wrote: > > I use Cygwin32 on Windows-64. Then you’re artificially making rebase’s job harder. The list of 32-bit-only Cygwin packages is tiny these days, and you’ve just rebuilt your Cygwin environment. With my new find-cyg-roots

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

On Jul 1, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > To clone an existing install using setup.exe: > > $ /path/to/setup-x86_64 -R 'c:\cygwin-clone' -q -L \ >-P $(tail -n+2 installed.db | cut -f1 -d' ' | tr '\n' ,) [snip] > ...you can prune the long list produced by that $() construct way

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

> A VS installation shouldn’t affect the rebase setup of Cygwin. I'm with you. But it did. I am not blaming Cygwin; I am a friend of Cygwin. >> Eventually, I reinstalled a fresh cygwin > Did you install all the same things, or a minimal install, Most of the same packages, but a

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

On Jun 29, 2016, at 6:24 AM, KARL BOTTS wrote: > > A couple of weeks ago I installed Visual Studio 2015...It is a huge install > -- 20GB disk space, more than an hour, a couple of reboots. In a world where main storage is measured in 100s of MB per second, installing 20 gigs

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

Greetings, KARL BOTTS! > 2) I always have cygdrive-prefix set to /, so that I can do, e.g. "cd /c". > But when you reinstall cygwin, you must do it again with "mount -c". And then > immediately do "mount -m > /etc/fstab", so that it sticks. Then, you should > patch up the symlinks in

Re: Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

On 6/29/2016 8:24 AM, KARL BOTTS wrote: 2) I always have cygdrive-prefix set to /, so that I can do, e.g. "cd /c". But when you reinstall cygwin, you must do it again with "mount -c". And then immediately do "mount -m > /etc/fstab", so that it sticks. Then, you should patch up the symlinks in

Anecdotal: Rebase and Visual Studio 2015 and /etc

A couple of weeks ago I installed Visual Studio 2015 (aka VS14) onto a machine that was already running Windows 10 and had VS2013 (aka VS12) on it. The machine was once updated from Windows 7, but that was months ago, had been fine. It is a huge install -- 20GB disk space, more than an hour, a