Re: [PATCH] cygport/lib/src_prep.cygpart: use checksum files with packages

2024-05-06 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
encoding rather than hex to shorten the checksum representation, in recent coreutils. We all have SSH keys, which I also have as a GPG key, could we also use them for signing source packages? Calm could validate ours and checksums, and re-sign with Cygwin key, which setup could validate. Could

Re: [PATCH] cygport/lib/src_prep.cygpart: use checksum files with packages

2024-05-06 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
On 01/05/2024 17:48, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 2024-04-30 23:32, ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote: Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps writes: Some package upstreams offer only checksums, for example .sha512sum, .sha256sum, for verification rather than gpg signatures, for example .asc, .sig,

Re: [PATCH] cygport/lib/src_prep.cygpart: use checksum files with packages

2024-05-01 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
On 2024-04-30 23:32, ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote: Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps writes: Some package upstreams offer only checksums, for example .sha512sum, .sha256sum, for verification rather than gpg signatures, for example .asc, .sig, .sign, etc; use these checksum files when provided in a

Re: [PATCH] cygport/lib/src_prep.cygpart: use checksum files with packages

2024-04-30 Thread ASSI via Cygwin-apps
Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps writes: > Some package upstreams offer only checksums, for example .sha512sum, > .sha256sum, > for verification rather than gpg signatures, for example .asc, .sig, .sign, > etc; > use these checksum files when provided in a similar manner to gpg signatures; > these

[PATCH] cygport/lib/src_prep.cygpart: use checksum files with packages

2024-04-30 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
From: "Brian Inglis" Some package upstreams offer only checksums, for example .sha512sum, .sha256sum, for verification rather than gpg signatures, for example .asc, .sig, .sign, etc; use these checksum files when provided in a similar manner to gpg signatures; these files are often provided with

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-04-19 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
of the analysis I was doing for python2 packages and the results are now available at [1]. So yeah, it looks like nothing uses 3.5. There are just a couple of packages using 3.6, I guess I'll ping the maintainers about those. [1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/python_rebuilds.html Ake, Hi Jon

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-04-05 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps
t;>> > >>>>>> Is it possible to update/rebuild rdiff-backup, which replies upon > >>>>>> the soon-to-be removed python36? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> (Or indicate that you are no longer interested in maintaining this > >>&g

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-04-05 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
as the maintainer from that package. I no longer use it, and no longer have an environment for building packages for Cygwin. No problem. Thanks for maintaining it in the past. Is the same true for your other packages? $ grep Rothenberger cygwin-pkg-maint | grep -v ORPHANED cyrus-sasl

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-04-02 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps
t you are no longer interested in maintaining this > >>>> package, which will probably lead to it's removal). > >>> > >>> Please remove me as the maintainer from that package. I no longer use > >>> it, and no longer have an environment for bui

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-04-02 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
replies upon the soon-to-be removed python36? (Or indicate that you are no longer interested in maintaining this package, which will probably lead to it's removal). Please remove me as the maintainer from that package. I no longer use it, and no longer have an environment for building packages

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-04-01 Thread David Rothenberger via Cygwin-apps
that you are no longer interested in maintaining this package, which will probably lead to it's removal). Please remove me as the maintainer from that package. I no longer use it, and no longer have an environment for building packages for Cygwin. No problem. Thanks for maintaining it in the past

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-04-01 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
2021)? (I'm still dealing with cleaning up the final pieces of python27 detritus, but these should hopefully be much smaller tasks) nothing should depend from 3.5 not sure for 3.6 I've automated some of the analysis I was doing for python2 packages and the results are now available at [1

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-03-30 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
in maintaining this package, which will probably lead to it's removal). Please remove me as the maintainer from that package. I no longer use it, and no longer have an environment for building packages for Cygwin. No problem. Thanks for maintaining it in the past. Is the same true for your other

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-03-29 Thread David Rothenberger via Cygwin-apps
for python2 packages and the results are now available at [1]. So yeah, it looks like nothing uses 3.5. There are just a couple of packages using 3.6, I guess I'll ping the maintainers about those. [1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/python_rebuilds.html David, Is it possible to update/rebuild

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-03-28 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
python{2{,7},3{,6,7,8,9}}-nghttp2? Does this have to remain in the cygport forever to avoid keeping nghttp2 vx.x.x around? You could, but that's probably not the correct thing to do unless you really, really want to forcibly uninstall those packages for anyone who has installed them, which

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-03-28 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
2021)? (I'm still dealing with cleaning up the final pieces of python27 detritus, but these should hopefully be much smaller tasks) nothing should depend from 3.5 not sure for 3.6 I've automated some of the analysis I was doing for python2 packages and the results are now available at [1

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-03-28 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
2021)? (I'm still dealing with cleaning up the final pieces of python27 detritus, but these should hopefully be much smaller tasks) nothing should depend from 3.5 not sure for 3.6 I've automated some of the analysis I was doing for python2 packages and the results are now available at [1

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-03-28 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
to remain in the cygport forever to avoid keeping nghttp2 vx.x.x around? You could, but that's probably not the correct thing to do unless you really, really want to forcibly uninstall those packages for anyone who has installed them, which seems like unnecessary breakage. I don't think you have

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-03-27 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: [...] Not sure why my source package nghttp2 shows python install packages, when they were dropped after 1.43 IIRC: build deps no longer include python/-devel? If you haven't taken any specific action to retire the python-3x-nghttp2 packages, the existing ones

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-03-27 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
source package nghttp2 shows python install packages, when they were dropped after 1.43 IIRC: build deps no longer include python/-devel? If you haven't taken any specific action to retire the python-3x-nghttp2 packages, the existing ones will continue to be available indefinitely. Firstly

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-03-24 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
2021)? (I'm still dealing with cleaning up the final pieces of python27 detritus, but these should hopefully be much smaller tasks) nothing should depend from 3.5 not sure for 3.6 I've automated some of the analysis I was doing for python2 packages and the results are now available at [1

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-03-24 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
pieces of python27 detritus, but these should hopefully be much smaller tasks) nothing should depend from 3.5 not sure for 3.6 I've automated some of the analysis I was doing for python2 packages and the results are now available at [1]. So yeah, it looks like nothing uses 3.5

Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-03-24 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps
On 24/03/2024 15:07, Jon Turney wrote: On 24/09/2023 13:32, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: I assume you are OK with the removal of python 3.5 (EOL Sept 2020) and 3.6 (EOL Dec 2021)? (I'm still dealing with cleaning up the final pieces of python27 detritus, but these should hopefully

Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

2024-03-24 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
On 24/09/2023 13:32, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: Generally, we have a large number of old, unmaintained packages. The policy [1] has always been "Packages without an active maintainer may be pulled from the distribution.", but not actively enforced (in fact prior to 2022,

Re: Unable to 'git push' to /git/cygwin-packages/*

2024-03-15 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
, I'm getting the error: fatal: remote error: service not enabled: /git/cygwin-packages/sshfs when I attempt 'git push' to that repository.  The same happens with all the repositories for my packages.  It's been this way for a couple days at least. Have I forgotten some step in the connection

Re: Unable to 'git push' to /git/cygwin-packages/*

2024-03-15 Thread Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps
On 3/14/2024 11:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps wrote: [...] You may also want to use https:// rather than git:// for reading the repository these days, given the insecurity of the git protocol. Right. I now remember this recommendation too. I will make the change in all the git

Re: Unable to 'git push' to /git/cygwin-packages/*

2024-03-15 Thread Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps
not enabled: /git/cygwin-packages/sshfs when I attempt 'git push' to that repository.  The same happens with all the repositories for my packages.  It's been this way for a couple days at least. Have I forgotten some step in the connection at my end?  I'm running ssh-agent. [...] What

Re: Unable to 'git push' to /git/cygwin-packages/*

2024-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps
> > > > I'm getting the error: > > > > > > > > fatal: remote error: service not enabled: /git/cygwin-packages/sshfs > > > > > > > > when I attempt 'git push' to that repository.  The same happens > > > > with all the repositories for my pa

Re: Unable to 'git push' to /git/cygwin-packages/*

2024-03-14 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
On 14/03/2024 15:39, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 3/14/2024 2:42 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 14/03/2024 05:45, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote: Hi folks, I'm getting the error: fatal: remote error: service not enabled: /git/cygwin-packages/sshfs when I attempt 'git

Re: Unable to 'git push' to /git/cygwin-packages/*

2024-03-14 Thread Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps
On 3/14/2024 2:42 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 14/03/2024 05:45, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote: Hi folks, I'm getting the error: fatal: remote error: service not enabled: /git/cygwin-packages/sshfs when I attempt 'git push' to that repository.  The same happens with all

Re: Unable to 'git push' to /git/cygwin-packages/*

2024-03-14 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
On 14/03/2024 05:45, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote: Hi folks, I'm getting the error: fatal: remote error: service not enabled: /git/cygwin-packages/sshfs when I attempt 'git push' to that repository.  The same happens with all the repositories for my packages.  It's been this way

Unable to 'git push' to /git/cygwin-packages/*

2024-03-13 Thread Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps
Hi folks, I'm getting the error: fatal: remote error: service not enabled: /git/cygwin-packages/sshfs when I attempt 'git push' to that repository. The same happens with all the repositories for my packages. It's been this way for a couple days at least. Have I forgotten some step

Re: Setup 2.930: 'user_picked' flag not set for packages selected with -P option

2024-03-03 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
' packages from installed.db and pass it via -P to setup. But in this new installation, all non-Base packages will appear in "Unneeded" view then. I guess this is not a regression but longstanding behavior. Hmm... I certainly envisioned it working that way when I added recording user_p

Updated: python 3.8/3.9 packages

2024-02-28 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce
. https://devguide.python.org/versions/#versions The main packages include postinstall script that use "alternatives" to define for /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/idle3 /usr/bin/pydoc3 a default to the highest package available. $ alternatives --display python pytho

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2024-01-25 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps
On 03/01/2024 08:49, Marco Atzeri wrote: +librsvg2 Marco Atzeri just discovered that librsvg2 requires Rust by long time ** The librsvg 2.40.x series is the last "C only" version of the library; it was deprecated in 2017.**

Re: Updated: python 3.8/3.9 packages

2024-01-25 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce
On 23/12/2023 04:54, Marco Atzeri wrote: New test release for python39    3.9.18-1 python39-doc    3.9.18-1 the packages were promoted to stable Regards Marco Atzeri -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** The easiest way to unsubscribe is to visit

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2024-01-07 Thread ASSI via Cygwin-apps
Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps writes: > I found the cause. DISTCLEANFILES in original cygport file removes them. > Now I can successfully build libatk1.0-doc. Thanks! No, that means the tarball includes files that should get re-built, but apparently you somehow failed to do that. Regards, Achim.

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2024-01-07 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps
On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 22:35:02 +0900 Takashi Yano via wrote: > In the source file, docs/xml directory should have document contents, > however, it is empty. So, I thought document cannot be built in this > version. I'll check again. I found the cause. DISTCLEANFILES in original cygport file removes

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2024-01-07 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps
On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 12:54:35 + Jon Turney wrote: > > ERROR: package 'atk1.0-src' version '2.38.0-1' build-depends: > > 'girepository(GLib-2.0)', but nothing satisfies that > > ERROR: package 'atk1.0-src' version '2.38.0-1' build-depends: > > 'pkgconfig(glib-2.0)', but nothing satisfies that >

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2024-01-07 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
groups I suspect GTK3 needs a lot of effort Thanks for the advice. Now, GTK3 package of 3.24.39 has been successfully built and packaged in my environment with updating some other related packages. So, firstly, I would like to take over following packages that are related to GTK3. fribidi

Re: Qemu packages for Cygwin?

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Campbell via Cygwin
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 12:42 PM matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: > Cygwin has an incredible amount of coverage, but it could be pared down to > 20 packages and I'd be perfectly happy. > I suspect most people are in this same position, except that they each have a different list of 20

Re: Qemu packages for Cygwin?

2024-01-03 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
that - and replacing the default 'link' to be 'mklink' links instead of Junctions which some Windows programs do NOT like and fail. For everything else there is WSL. Seriously. Cygwin has an incredible amount of coverage, but it could be pared down to 20 packages and I'd be perfectly happy. 

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2024-01-03 Thread 1dakotaxi via Cygwin-apps
StopSent from my T-Mobile 5G Device Original message From: Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps Date: 1/2/24 9:00 PM (GMT-08:00) To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set On Sat, 23 Dec 2023 04:51:22 +0100Marco Atzeri wrote:> On 23/12/2023

Re: Qemu packages for Cygwin?

2024-01-03 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
come with qemu packages? why should an "Unix Emulation layer" that run in "User Space" trying to run a "Full-system emulation" (https://www.qemu.org/) ? It seems like using square wheels Nope. The Qemu packages on LInux have a much more wider functionalit

Re: Qemu packages for Cygwin?

2024-01-03 Thread Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 18:33, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > > On 2023-12-18 00:14, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 07:54, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > >> On 18/12/2023 07:42, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: > >>> Does Cygwin come with

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2024-01-02 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps
for the advice. Now, GTK3 package of 3.24.39 has been successfully built and packaged in my environment with updating some other related packages. So, firstly, I would like to take over following packages that are related to GTK3. fribidi 0.19.7 -> 1.0.13 libdatrie 0.28 -> 0.2.13 libthai

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2024-01-02 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps
On Sat, 23 Dec 2023 04:51:22 +0100 Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 23/12/2023 04:42, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:16:05 + > > Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: > >> I tweaked the unmaintained packages report [1] a bit so it identifies

Updated: python 3.8/3.9 packages

2023-12-22 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce
introduced and we will skip 3.10 and 3.11. https://devguide.python.org/versions/#versions The main packages include postinstall script that use "alternatives" to define for /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/idle3 /usr/bin/pydoc3 a default to the highest package

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2023-12-22 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps
On 23/12/2023 04:42, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:16:05 + Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: I tweaked the unmaintained packages report [1] a bit so it identifies 'base' and 'direct or indirect base dependencies'. (But you're quite right to point out

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2023-12-22 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps
On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:16:05 + Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: > I tweaked the unmaintained packages report [1] a bit so it identifies > 'base' and 'direct or indirect base dependencies'. > > (But you're quite right to point out that the build requirements for a > nati

Re: Custom package repository in addition to default Cygwin packages?

2023-12-22 Thread Andrey Repin via Cygwin
t download mirror list. Only use > sites >specified with -s > .. > -s --site Download site URL, path or UNC path > The default is to both download and install packages, unless either > --download or --local-install is specified. > ---

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2023-12-22 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
On 21/12/2023 04:27, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 20/12/2023 13:16, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 06/12/2023 17:19, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 2023-12-05 06:07, Jon Turney wrote: [...] I tweaked the unmaintained packages report [1] a bit so it identifies

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2023-12-21 Thread Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps
Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote: Is anyone looking at QT5 and QT6 ? I've "looked at" Qt5 in the past, though not to the point of being able to take it over. I have a patch for the qterminal issue that I'd like to contribute. There's issues I've had building this I haven't had the time to

Re: Unmaintained packages in base package set

2023-12-20 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps
On 20/12/2023 13:16, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 06/12/2023 17:19, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 2023-12-05 06:07, Jon Turney wrote: [...] I tweaked the unmaintained packages report [1] a bit so it identifies 'base' and 'direct or indirect base dependencies

Unmaintained packages in base package set

2023-12-20 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
On 06/12/2023 17:19, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 2023-12-05 06:07, Jon Turney wrote: [...] I was kind of hoping that base packages (and "dependencies of packages in base which aren't in base themselves") aren't unmaintained, but obviously that was being optimis

Re: Qemu packages for Cygwin?

2023-12-18 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2023-12-18 00:14, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 07:54, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 18/12/2023 07:42, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: Does Cygwin come with qemu packages? why should an "Unix Emulation layer" that run in "User Space" trying t

Re: Custom package repository in addition to default Cygwin packages?

2023-12-18 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
On 18/12/2023 10:57, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: Good morning! Can Cygwin setup.exe be modified to support more than one package repository, e.g. first the default Cygwin package repro, and then a company package repro (e.g. fr.pasteur.cygwin.packages ?). The source code is available,

Re: Custom package repository in addition to default Cygwin packages?

2023-12-18 Thread marco atzeri via Cygwin
download mirror list. Only use sites specified with -s .. -s --site Download site URL, path or UNC path The default is to both download and install packages, unless either --download or -

Custom package repository in addition to default Cygwin packages?

2023-12-18 Thread Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
Good morning! Can Cygwin setup.exe be modified to support more than one package repository, e.g. first the default Cygwin package repro, and then a company package repro (e.g. fr.pasteur.cygwin.packages ?). Ced -- Cedric Blancher [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/] Institute Pasteur

Re: Qemu packages for Cygwin?

2023-12-17 Thread Dan Shelton via Cygwin
On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 07:54, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > > On 18/12/2023 07:42, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Does Cygwin come with qemu packages? > > > > Dan > > why should an "Unix Emulation layer" that run in &

Re: Qemu packages for Cygwin?

2023-12-17 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 18/12/2023 07:42, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: Hello! Does Cygwin come with qemu packages? Dan why should an "Unix Emulation layer" that run in "User Space" trying to run a "Full-system emulation" (https://www.qemu.org/) ? It seems like using square whee

Qemu packages for Cygwin?

2023-12-17 Thread Dan Shelton via Cygwin
Hello! Does Cygwin come with qemu packages? Dan -- Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com

UPD: "Unneeded" packages are hard to get rid of in Setup

2023-11-30 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
UPDATE: Running "cygcheck -rvs" on the updated installation (after all the "Unneeded" packages were gone), revealed that a few packages had become "Incomplete": base-files libMagickCore6_6 libMagickCore7_9 perl perl-mapages squid I re-ran Setup and chose thes

"Unneeded" packages are hard to get rid of in Setup

2023-11-30 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
Hi All, I was updating my Cygwin installation at home and that had accumulated some "Unneeded" packages, which were very hard to deal with: The default disposition is "Keep" (while logically, since they are "safe to be removed", it should have been "Unins

Re: Bonfire of the Packages

2023-09-24 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 24.09.2023 um 20:20 schrieb gstrauss via Cygwin-apps: On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 01:32:59PM +0100, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: Generally, we have a large number of old, unmaintained packages. The policy [1] has always been "Packages without an active maintainer may be pulled

Re: Bonfire of the Packages

2023-09-24 Thread gstrauss via Cygwin-apps
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 01:32:59PM +0100, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: > > Generally, we have a large number of old, unmaintained packages. > > The policy [1] has always been "Packages without an active maintainer may be > pulled from the distribution.", but not a

Re: Drop djgpp-{binutils,gcc-*,runtime} 32-bit packages

2023-09-24 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
On 2023-09-24 08:10, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 24.09.2023 um 14:32 schrieb Jon Turney: On 08/09/2023 18:29, Brian Inglis wrote: Thinking we could drop the ancient (8 years) orphaned DJGPP 32-bit (by definition) packages; they are older than djgpp current, never mind beta on gcc 13; from DJ's

Re: Drop djgpp-{binutils,gcc-*,runtime} 32-bit packages

2023-09-24 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 24.09.2023 um 14:32 schrieb Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps: On 08/09/2023 18:29, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote: Hi folks, Thinking we could drop the ancient (8 years) orphaned DJGPP 32-bit (by definition) packages; they are older than djgpp current, never mind beta on gcc 13; from

Re: Drop djgpp-{binutils,gcc-*,runtime} 32-bit packages

2023-09-24 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
On 08/09/2023 18:29, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote: Hi folks, Thinking we could drop the ancient (8 years) orphaned DJGPP 32-bit (by definition) packages; they are older than djgpp current, never mind beta on gcc 13; from DJ's latest Monthly Mini-FAQ summary: djdev-2.05 binutils

Bonfire of the Packages

2023-09-24 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
Generally, we have a large number of old, unmaintained packages. The policy [1] has always been "Packages without an active maintainer may be pulled from the distribution.", but not actively enforced (in fact prior to 2022, this used to say "are pulled", but I moderated

Drop djgpp-{binutils,gcc-*,runtime} 32-bit packages

2023-09-08 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
Hi folks, Thinking we could drop the ancient (8 years) orphaned DJGPP 32-bit (by definition) packages; they are older than djgpp current, never mind beta on gcc 13; from DJ's latest Monthly Mini-FAQ summary: djdev-2.05 binutils-2.32 ... gcc-10.2.0 ... $ cygcheck -p DJGPP Found 18

Re: [PATCH setup 0/2] Detect filename collisions between packages

2023-05-03 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
On 2023-04-30 12:25, Jon Turney wrote: On 28/04/2023 06:51, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2023-04-27 10:11, Jon Turney wrote: [...] I think this functionality needs to exist in setup as well, though, as calm can't possibly have knowledge of packages you might be installing from 3rd party overlay

Re: Cygwin packages params in setup command line

2023-05-03 Thread marco atzeri via Cygwin
On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 3:26 PM Anderson via Cygwin wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to know if have a limit of packages to install on packages params on > cygwin setup command line. > > I put many packages but some packages are not installed. > > Thanks. > Hi Ande

Cygwin packages params in setup command line

2023-05-03 Thread Anderson via Cygwin
Hi, I need to know if have a limit of packages to install on packages params on cygwin setup command line. I put many packages but some packages are not installed. Thanks. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

Re: Installing/upgrading only NOARCH packages.

2023-05-01 Thread Jeremy Drake via Cygwin
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023, Brian Inglis wrote: > As 32 bit Windows systems are no longer getting security updates, > recommendations for similar legacy systems include running them in VMs with > access to update executables and libraries blocked. There is a 32-bit variant of Windows 10; Windows 10 is

Re: [PATCH setup 0/2] Detect filename collisions between packages

2023-04-30 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
On 28/04/2023 06:51, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 2023-04-27 10:11, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: [...] I think this functionality needs to exist in setup as well, though, as calm can't possibly have knowledge of packages you might be installing from 3rd party overlay package

Re: [PATCH setup 0/2] Detect filename collisions between packages

2023-04-27 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
'conflicts:' markers in hints, etc.) I think this functionality needs to exist in setup as well, though, as calm can't possibly have knowledge of packages you might be installing from 3rd party overlay package repositories. Please make any of these conflict messages warnings only, as few pa

Re: [PATCH setup 2/2] Detect filename collisions between packages

2023-04-27 Thread Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps
filenames to sets of packages. Using multimap instead of the straightforward map> needs possibly less memory (not tested). But for multimap it is required that file/package name pairs are not inserted twice. I attached a small standalone POC source file using multimap. It would also detect collisi

Re: [PATCH setup 0/2] Detect filename collisions between packages

2023-04-27 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
lity needs to exist in setup as well, though, as calm can't possibly have knowledge of packages you might be installing from 3rd party overlay package repositories.

Re: [PATCH setup 2/2] Detect filename collisions between packages

2023-04-27 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
On 24/04/2023 17:26, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote: Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: Detect filename collisions between packages Don't check filenames under /etc/postinstall/ for collisions Report when filename collisions exist Add option '--collisions' to enable IMO a useful

Re: [PATCH setup 0/2] Detect filename collisions between packages

2023-04-24 Thread Achim Gratz via Cygwin-apps
Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps writes: > Calm could create a database containing all the files from the tar > archives it uploads, and compare that against the newly uploaded files > on the fly. That already exists as the basis for package grep, albeit in the form of a buiinch of text files.

Re: [PATCH setup 0/2] Detect filename collisions between packages

2023-04-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps
Hi Jon, On Apr 23 15:43, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: > This is a woefully underoptimized implementation of detecting filename > collisions between packages, so it's hidden behind the command line option > '--collisions' to enable it. > > A good implementation probab

Re: [PATCH setup 2/2] Detect filename collisions between packages

2023-04-24 Thread Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps
Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: Detect filename collisions between packages Don't check filenames under /etc/postinstall/ for collisions Report when filename collisions exist Add option '--collisions' to enable IMO a useful enhancement. Notes: Reading file catalog from a package

[PATCH setup 2/2] Detect filename collisions between packages

2023-04-23 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
Detect filename collisions between packages Don't check filenames under /etc/postinstall/ for collisions Report when filename collisions exist Add option '--collisions' to enable Notes: Reading file catalog from a package is moderately expensive in terms of I/O: To extract all the filenames from

[PATCH setup 0/2] Detect filename collisions between packages

2023-04-23 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
This is a woefully underoptimized implementation of detecting filename collisions between packages, so it's hidden behind the command line option '--collisions' to enable it. A good implementation probably (i) collects the filenames at the same time as checksumming the archive, or has them

Re: Installing/upgrading only NOARCH packages.

2023-04-19 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2023-04-19 05:30, Carlo B. via Cygwin wrote: after the 32-bit port of CYGWIN has been obsoleted, I was looking for a way for installing or upgrading the NOARCH packages, like the libraries for the mingw cross compilers for example. Unfortunately, I have not found an existing way for doing

Re: Installing/upgrading only NOARCH packages.

2023-04-19 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
On 19/04/2023 12:30, Carlo B. via Cygwin wrote: Hello, after the 32-bit port of CYGWIN has been obsoleted, I was looking for a way for installing or upgrading the NOARCH packages, like the libraries for the mingw cross compilers for example. Unfortunately, I have not found an existing way

Installing/upgrading only NOARCH packages.

2023-04-19 Thread Carlo B. via Cygwin
Hello, after the 32-bit port of CYGWIN has been obsoleted, I was looking for a way for installing or upgrading the NOARCH packages, like the libraries for the mingw cross compilers for example. Unfortunately, I have not found an existing way for doing it. Is it possible to do it? Otherwise, I'm

Re: Setup: How to automate source download for packages already installed?

2023-04-14 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
On 28/03/2023 17:55, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:55 PM Jon Turney wrote: Sorry, based on the previous discussion at [1] this seems to be broken at the moment, due to '-x' being broken. [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-February/252994.html I think I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python 3.8/3.9 packages

2023-04-13 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin
://devguide.python.org/versions/#versions The main packages include postinstall script that use "alternatives" to define for /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/idle3 /usr/bin/pydoc3 a default to the highest package available. $ alternatives --display python python - status is a

Updated: python 3.8/3.9 packages

2023-04-13 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce
://devguide.python.org/versions/#versions The main packages include postinstall script that use "alternatives" to define for /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/idle3 /usr/bin/pydoc3 a default to the highest package available. $ alternatives --display python python - status is a

Re: Setup: How to automate source download for packages already installed?

2023-03-28 Thread Bill Stewart via Cygwin
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:55 PM Jon Turney wrote: Sorry, based on the previous discussion at [1] this seems to be broken > at the moment, due to '-x' being broken. > > [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-February/252994.html > > If you really need this, please try old setup versions from

Re: Setup: How to automate source download for packages already installed?

2023-03-27 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
3" -P "package1,package2,package3"' An option which explicitly just installs the source for a specified package might be useful. It seems that --local-install -x "package[,...]" -P "package[,...]" ...no longer works to automate source download for package

Re: Setup: How to automate source download for packages already installed?

2023-03-27 Thread Bill Stewart via Cygwin
-I -x "package1,package2,package3" -P >> "package1,package2,package3"' >> >> An option which explicitly just installs the source for a specified >> package might be useful. >> > > It seems that > > --local-install -x "package[,...]&

Re: Setup: How to automate source download for packages already installed?

2023-03-27 Thread Bill Stewart via Cygwin
kage3"' > > An option which explicitly just installs the source for a specified > package might be useful. > It seems that --local-install -x "package[,...]" -P "package[,...]" ...no longer works to automate source download for packages already installed..

Re: Sharing my packages for CYGWIN

2022-12-04 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
On 18/11/2022 14:32, Keith Christian wrote: Carlo, Since you are successfully creating Cygwin packages, one thing that would be very helpful is a detailed set of instructions for cygport to create a Cygwin package from source. There are instructions posted on the Cygwin website and other info

Re: Sharing my packages for CYGWIN

2022-12-04 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
On 17/11/2022 15:18, Carlo B. wrote: Hello, at this address I did a repository of packages that I made for CYGWIN: https://github.com/carlo-bramini/packages-cygwin Sometimes, when I need something not existing (or newer) into the official list of packages for CYGWIN, I upload it here. All

Re: xxhash packages update

2022-12-02 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps
Doug, What would you like me to do here: - Apply this update and rebuild the package, and/or - Process this like an ITA - Something else? On 25/10/2022 16:25, Chad Dougherty wrote: I've updated the cygport to the current upstream release version, 0.8.1:

Re: Sharing my packages for CYGWIN

2022-11-18 Thread Keith Christian
Carlo, Since you are successfully creating Cygwin packages, one thing that would be very helpful is a detailed set of instructions for cygport to create a Cygwin package from source. There are instructions posted on the Cygwin website and other info about cygport, but I have not found

Re: Sharing my packages for CYGWIN

2022-11-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/17/2022 10:18 AM, Carlo B. wrote: Hello, at this address I did a repository of packages that I made for CYGWIN: https://github.com/carlo-bramini/packages-cygwin Sometimes, when I need something not existing (or newer) into the official list of packages for CYGWIN, I upload it here. All

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