Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

2014-11-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: No? … in the sense of something almost, but not quite entirely unlike _autorebase. From what I read here your _incautorebase would replace _autorebase just fine. I'm not concerned about an exact replacement for the rebaseall script. The idea would be to make

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours)

2014-11-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: There's one final idea I'd like to throw out, possibly as an alternative to Achim's perpetual postinstall scripts: It would be useful to be able to specify that a certain package (such as _autorebase, or my proposed _texlive_post) should always be selected for *reinstall*

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-4.8.3-5 (x86_64)

2014-11-17 Thread Achim Gratz
JonY 10walls at gmail.com writes: gcc-4.8.3-5 has been uploaded for 64bit Cygwin. It contains some fixes for the libgcc unload handler. The -4 release was an accident that did not contain the fix. Can you please check the setup.hint files? I think that gcc-core should require

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-21 Thread Achim Gratz
pichi032 . writes: I installed it in my C: drive now.. This is cygcheck output : By the way Mintty still doesn't work ( Can it possibly be related to the path with the Nvidia folder ? ) Go into Windows' system settings and set up an environment variable CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 to test that

[ATTN maintainer] cyrus-sasl/libsasl2_3 packaging bug

2014-11-24 Thread Achim Gratz
This package drops the script etc/postinstall/libsasl2_3.postinstall which will never be run by setup.exe since it does not have the necessary .sh suffix. Regards, Achim -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Cygwin AD schema and configuration extensions (was Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory)

2014-11-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: Ok, so we have a cygwin schema extension now. The file is called cygwin.ldif and is in the Cygwin CVS repo. It gets installed to /usr/share/cygwin. The schema extension consists of two auxiliary classes: […] Do you think this makes sense? Would you actually use

Re: Cygwin AD schema and configuration extensions (was Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory)

2014-11-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: Ideally, such a configuration extension requires a new tool for Admins. It's not exactly feasible for an Admin to install and maintain the configuration extension in ADSI Edit. In practise IT would do these edits via a dedicated web interface that takes most of its

Re: group permission on 1.7.34

2014-11-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Pierre A. Humblet writes: ls -l appears to always report rwx for group on 1.7.34 You need to remove the ACL for SYSTEM and Administrators, then. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ DIY Stuff: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/DIY.html -- Problem

Re: Cygwin AD schema and configuration extensions (was Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory)

2014-11-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: In practise IT would do these edits via a dedicated web interface that takes most of its data from the install order form. -v please? Is there something available out of the box? Please keep in mind that I'm not an admin. ADSI Edit is perfectly fine for my limited

Re: subversion and permissions

2014-11-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: I don't grok that. If you chmod one of your own files 070 or 060, and then try to read it, you get a permission denied error. This is perfectly ok from a POSIX POV. The problem here is, why does our own libapr chmod to 070 at all? If libapr does it, and if this is

Re: Windows Server 2012 R2 - man very very slow

2014-12-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Vilius Mockūnas writes: man displays man pages very slowly - for example man ls takes about 45s to display. Those 45 seconds seem excessive whichever way I look at it, unless there is quite some load on the filesystem that Cygwin is on. In that case, moving Cygwin to a different disk or

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: It's unfortunate that this may break more installations, but it's also a security improvment. The group permissions reflect the fact that the permissions granted to your ssh key are too open. Fortunately the new -b option to setfacl allows a quick fix. Speaking of

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: The major change in this new release will be the new method to read account (passwd and group) information from the Windows user databases directly, without the requirement to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to generate Unix-like uid and gid. I've just set

Re: grep treating my text files as binary!

2014-12-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 27.12.2014 um 11:07 schrieb Bengt Larsson: I ran into this, actually. I keep a list of my directories and it is in CP1252 for reasons of interfacing with CMD.EXE. Suddenly grep couldn't match it. But I figured something was up and set my locale to CP1252 and then it worked. I just keep a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.864)

2015-02-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrey Repin writes: Regarding this change (and the underlying behavior). I see the key word is full set of packages. Which makes little sense in case of upgrading from local archive. But it also makes very little sense, if upgrading from internet. It is only done when you specify a local

Re: gcc warning about MPFR header version

2015-02-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: On 2/4/2015 10:49 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: While trying to build clisp on x86_64 Cygwin with 'gcc -v', I got the following: warning: MPFR header version 3.1.2 differs from library version 3.1.2-p11. Does this indicate a problem, or can it be safely

Re: gcc warning about MPFR header version

2015-02-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: While trying to build clisp on x86_64 Cygwin with 'gcc -v', I got the following: warning: MPFR header version 3.1.2 differs from library version 3.1.2-p11. Does this indicate a problem, or can it be safely ignored? You need to install the latest version of libmpfr-devel

Re: gcc warning about MPFR header version

2015-02-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: I do have this, and I have no other version of the header. But this #define MPFR_VERSION \ MPFR_VERSION_NUM(MPFR_VERSION_MAJOR,MPFR_VERSION_MINOR,MPFR_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL) yields a value of MPFR_VERSION that doesn't include the -p11. Maybe that's what confused gcc.

Re: setup*.exe should abort upon download incomplete?

2015-02-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Kal Sze writes: 1. I think if the user answers No, setup should abort the whole process; The question from setup was if you wanted to retry the download, not if you wanted to abort. You seem to want it to ask another question. 2. Alternatively, setup should not try to install the packages

Re: Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.864)

2015-02-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: strange as 4.9.2-2 is current for both architecture $ cygcheck -cd|grep gcc gcc-core4.9.2-2 gcc-fortran 4.9.2-2 gcc-g++ 4.9.2-2 It could be a side effect of a messy setup.ini I

Re: Cygwin and BitLocker

2015-02-05 Thread Achim Gratz
DeTracey, Brendan writes: Does anyone have experience with how Cygwin behaves with BitLocker? BitLocker is being rolled out in my corporate environment for all external media and I am a little concerned whether Cygwin will be able to read/write to external drives. I do not have local admin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Re: Updated: Cygwin 1.7.34-6

2015-02-05 Thread Achim Gratz
J2897 writes: Unfortunately, as you can see, there seems to be a problem with forwardslashes/backslashes after C:\cygstore\. I'll try again tomorrow... That's normal and nothing to worry about. package _autorebase comparing versions 000335-1 and 000335-1, result was 0 package

Re: how to determine if a shell is running as Administrator?

2015-02-05 Thread Achim Gratz
J. David Boyd writes: This doesn't seem to tell me if my shell has been started with 'Run As Administrator', it just tells me if my user is contained in the Administrator group. No, you're not in that group unless you have actual administrator privileges. I can start a cygwin shell, and

Re: how to determine if a shell is running as Administrator?

2015-02-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew Schulman writes: OK, I see. Yes, when I Run as administrator I have $ id -G 513 114 1007 1001 0 545 4 66049 11 15 113 4095 66048 262154 405504 which includes 0. Remove the /etc/group file or the line for the root group (or install /etc/nsswitch.conf and tell it to ignore those

Re: how to determine if a shell is running as Administrator?

2015-02-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: J. David Boyd writes: This doesn't seem to tell me if my shell has been started with 'Run As Administrator', it just tells me if my user is contained in the Administrator group. No, you're not in that group unless you have actual administrator privileges. BTW, just try

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: _autorebase-001002-1

2015-02-05 Thread Achim Gratz
_autorebase === This package provides scripts to keep the Cygwin system properly rebased. By default this happens incrementally, which means after each run of setup.exe it is determined which packages have been newly installed and only the dynamic objects provided by those packages are

Re: Group execute permission regression (??): causing problem in fossil.

2015-02-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Jan Nijtmans writes: Starting with the upgrade to Cygwin (latest: 1.7.34), fossil started to behave strangely: Every file committed to a fossil repository suddenly had the execute permission bit set! With 1.7.33 this didn't happen. The cause of this problem was that apparently starting with

Re: Group execute permission regression (??): causing problem in fossil.

2015-02-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: ...or setfacl -k for the directories only. Don't forget the option I implemented just because you asked for it :) Sure. ;-) But without the ACl we don't know and 'setfacl -b' is a bit safer. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk

Re: test3

2015-02-08 Thread Achim Gratz
f...@sourceware.org writes: test2+1 Am I on? (Janis Joplin) Looks like the list is back, thank you. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ DIY Stuff: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/DIY.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: ca-legacy not bourne-compatible

2015-02-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Helmut Karlowski writes: /usr/bin/ca-legacy contains [[-operators but has #!/bin/sh. Attached patch fixes it. The patch seems reversed… Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER:

Re: Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.867)

2015-02-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Luke Kendall writes: Actually, our experience is that the errors generally last weeks or even months. E.g. the one I mentioned above has been over a week now. Maybe we simply have bad luck picking mirror sites. :-) In that case, I rather suspect you're using a proxy somewhere that doesn't

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-004

2015-01-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: - The addition of the %H wildcard to the path scheme for the db_home/db_shell/db_gecos settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. I've moved one machine to this setting (no SSH login possible there, so that won't be an issue). Let's see if anyone

Re: Cannot write backup file; backing up in ~/.emacs.d/%backup%~

2015-02-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Tim Even timreven54 at gmail.com writes: Do you have any ideas about how to get backups working on the following? Emacs issues this warning when you have no write access in the directory where the file you're editing resides. Based on the assumption that you would have those rights in your home

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Eric Blake writes: The same test from the command line: $ stat -c %i /dev/tty - 0/dev/tty 327680 8912896 use any other (already-existing) file to see that the two numbers should normally be the same. Interestingly enough I get exactly the same numbers, both on 32bit and 64bit Cygwin.

Re: Setup and perl

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: Achim, can you please remove the 001001 version? The new mechanism requires a much stricter adherence to ascending version numbers. Done. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ SD adaptations for KORG EX-800 and

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrey Repin anrdaemon at yandex.ru writes: # getent passwd $(id -u) /etc/passwd # mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd # getent group $(id -G) /etc/group # mkgroup -l /etc/group # echo -e #\npasswd: files db\ngroup: files db\n /etc/nsswitch.conf Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports:

Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell

2015-02-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Helmut Karlowski helmut.karlowski at ish.de writes: That was it. All fine now, next I'll write me a cygwin-snapshot-install :-\ Or package it and install via setup.exe. ---Makefile--- .PHONY: both all install clean force-clean clean-install clean-source snapshot source install-snapshot

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Update/Test] perl-5.14.4-2

2015-02-17 Thread Achim Gratz
General --- I'm taking over as Perl maintainer from Reini Urban. Thank you Reini for the past years of maintining Perl. This release updates Perl to version 5.14.4 (the final release of 5.14) and also incorporates a few upstream patches from later Perl versions (most of which were already

Re: Texlive Package Problem

2015-02-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: There's no problem here. /var/lib/texmf/postinstall is used for the new streamlined TeX Live postinstall process. The files in it are markers indicating that something needs to be done, and they are renamed with .done appended when it's done. The same thing is done with

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.3

2015-02-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: And it's fast with other shells? Bash is reading/writing a history file, too, for instance... Yes, that's the puzzling bit; although I don't have nearly the same number of history lines in .bash_history, but the difference still is at least an order of magnitude. I

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: Yup, that looks right. Thanks for explaining. I guess that should help us along. If you check this change in, I will release a new csih version asap. Done. please check again. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.3

2015-02-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: This release introduces a revision of the LDAP calls done to fetch information from the DC. By limiting the search scope, the calls should now be faster even in bigger environments. Please give it a try with activated db settings for passwd and group entries in

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: The old test wrote to /etc/{passwd,group} when use_file!=1, …make that -^!=0 Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Blofeld: http

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: + csih_old_cygwin ; use_file=$? if [ ${use_file} -ne 0 -a -f /etc/nsswitch.conf ] then -grep -Eq ^${file}:[^#]*\db\ /etc/nsswitch.conf || use_file=0 +grep -Eq ^${file}: /etc/nsswitch.conf + grep -Eq ^${file}:[^#]*\db\ /etc/nsswitch.conf || +

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: It's a bit confusing to talk about the Cygwin version when this is only about openssh and the csih package. I'm really busy with other stuff right now. I quickly scanned the ssh-*-config scripts again and they never write a passwd entry so, if anything, it's a

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: + if csih_old_cygwin Missing a then here of course… +if [ $(/usr/bin/id -un) = mkpasswd ] Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ Wavetables for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html

Re: Setup and perl

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Angelo Graziosi writes: Today I run setup to update Cygwin and it wanted to install perl_base as dependency (I don't remember which version). OK. Then I saw that there was a new test release of Cygwin (1.7.35-03) and since I was using 1.7.35-2, I re-run setup to install it. And after

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Re: [Update/Test] perl-5.14.4-3

2015-02-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: The update is expected to be fully binary compatible on both architectures, so modules should need no rebuilding. I've accidentally dropped a patch in the final build that ensures that binary compatibility for i686… The packages have been re-built with that patch

[ATTN Maintainer] netpbm-10.66.02-2

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
I can't find the announcement for this package update, plus there seems to be a packaging bug since pnmtops is missing from both architectures. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ SD adaptations for Waldorf Q V3.00R3 and Q+ V3.54R2:

Re: Although advertised on a different Cygwin mailing list ...

2015-01-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: It has the unfortunate side-effect that downgrading packages is not possible anymore, and worse, the package could be silently removed. That's a teeny little bit more exciting action than I anticipated with my change. With your second

Re: Fork errors in python2.7 on 64-bit Cygwin

2015-02-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Michael Wild writes: * Trying to run a shell command from Python fails 50% of the time with: address space needed by 'cygz.dll' (0x45) is already occupied. Such a low address on 64bit is an indication of an image intercept and/or BLODA in my experience. * rebase -si only shows an

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gmp-6.0.0a-2

2015-02-01 Thread Achim Gratz
GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library = GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is no practical limit to the precision except the ones implied by the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mpfr-3.1.2-2

2015-02-01 Thread Achim Gratz
The MPFR Library The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding (also called correct rounding). It is based on the GMP multiple-precision library. The main goal of MPFR is to provide a library for multiple-precision

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mpclib-1.0.2-2

2015-02-01 Thread Achim Gratz
MPC Multiprecision Library == The GNU MPC library is a C library for multiple-precision complex floating-point computations with exact rounding (also called correct rounding). It is based on the GMP and MPFR multiple-precision libraries. - version 1.0.2-2 -

Re: WinXP Pro Cygwin Digest-MD4-1.9 /bin/sh: gcc-4: command not found

2015-01-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Larry Hall (Cygwin) writes: 1. Create a link to gcc and call it gcc-4. It must actually be gcc.exe linked to gcc-4.exe, due to the way some (but not all) Perl build scripts handle EXEEXT. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ SD adaptations

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the Windows home path in POSIX notation. So, what you should be able to do now is something like: db_home: /%H/cygwin I've used db_home: %H/cygwin instead. That works, sort of. The windows

Re: [RSYNC] bad modify/change time set by rsync ?

2015-01-06 Thread Achim Gratz
LEGOND Fabrice writes: You can see here that: * the Modify/Change time differ from one second. Why ? Reading the man page would tell you why and what to do: --modify-window When comparing two timestamps, rsync treats the timestamps as being equal if they differ by no more than the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: Which means what for the Cygwin DLL? Dropping TMP/TEMP from the merged Windows env? It makes sense, I think. Of course, there will be others... Just for this question: if the Cygwin DLL always handles it no matter what, then I think

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Achim Gratz
[using the 20150113 snapshot already] Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: The leading slash is in integral part of the path scheme, The above is not recognized as valid entry at all. It doesn't work differently now that I've added the slash, though. To solve the problems

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: No. How often do you change such a central setting as the db_home setting for all users? Almost never. But testing gets more involved in this way. I thought it's clear how Cygwin does it. Here it is: Is homeDrive non-empty? If

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: I uploaded a snapshot and I'm going to release another test release. The snapshot and the test release are the same thing at the moment? Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) writes: But I'm just wondering how this failed after I updated - I was using it successfully 30 mins previously. I've had it configured this way for years. Before the update, Cygwin didn't talk to your DC, but it does now. The details are in the announcement for the

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) writes: Well, nsswitch.conf was a good suggestion - I'd left it as the default (which is empty), but I added a 'files' entry and it came good again. Changing the passwd and group entries to 'files db' makes it very slow again. Limit the number of entries that Cygwin

Re: group permissions

2015-02-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: Here's the problem: Windows doesn't support an ACL_MASK entry, nor anything even remotely resembling it. Right. And pretending that it does is doing more harm than good, IMHO. o The other way to emulate writing an ACL_MASK entry would be

Re: Managing packages from command line

2015-02-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Pavel Fedin p.fedin at samsung.com writes: The next step is to install the newly built package. I try to feed my directory with the package to setup.exe in install from local directory mode, but looks like it needs complete repository with setup.ini file, which i obviously don't have. I would

Re: group permissions

2015-02-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: My preference at this time would be option 2 because it’s easier to understand than option 3 (and who cares to preserve entries not set by cygwin but imposed by Windows default ACLs) but maybe option 3 would be more “correct”. Again, if you want POSIX-only directory

Re: 1.7.35 Bash spawned by Perl has DOS-style argv0

2015-02-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: Thanks for the testcase! The problem you're describing is the result of a thinko when I revamped the PATH finding functionality in Cygwin a couple of days ago. I fixed that in CVS. I will upload a new developer snapshot for testing to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.1

2015-02-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: That makes me wonder, if there's a sane way to simulate such login process under cygwin without asking user for name/password? Or unsetting global %HOME% is the only way to go? There's no reason at all to set a global %HOME% variable for Cygwin. The trouble is that

Re: how to determine if a shell is running as Administrator?

2015-02-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: 2. Parse the output of groups or id -G. I can't find any reliable way to do this. For example on my host, when I start a shell with Run as administrator, the new group I get isn't 544 (Administrators). It's 114 (Local account and member of Administrators group).

Re: Possibly wrong Admin group ID in cygwin 1.7.34-003 (x64)

2015-01-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Ilya Dogolazky writes: But if I use the testing cygwin package 1.7.34-003 (available in the installer by clicking on cygwin package), then the group 544 doesn't appear anymore: Plain window: 197121 197610 545 4 66049 11 15 4095 66048 262154 401408 Admin window: 197121 197610 0 545 4 66049 11

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2015-01-07 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: but that would produce some rather unwieldy and long paths for certain users. So, instead of specifying the users' home directory directly I would like to mount or auto-mount /home/≤user to the actual (network) home directory. Hmm.

Re: Problems with perl pakages in TEST

2015-02-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Angelo Graziosi writes: OK, I have reinstalled from scratch […] and things seem to work... :) Thanks for letting us know. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Q+, Q and microQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.14.4-3

2015-03-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Erwin Waterlander writes: cygcheck output, please. pod2man seems ok, but pod2html produces wrong output. $ cygcheck pod2html Found: C:\cygwin\bin\pod2html C:\cygwin\bin\pod2htmlcygcheck: C:\cygwin\bin\pod2html is not a DLL: magic number 2123 (8483) '#!' Yes I know it's a script. I was

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.14.4-3

2015-03-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Erwin Waterlander writes: It looks like this http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/tmp/dos2unix.htm while it should look like http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix/uk/man1/dos2unix.htm It could be a pod2html bug. I know that between perl 5.14.2 and 5.18 the pod2html output changed from plain

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.14.4-3

2015-03-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Erwin Waterlander writes: You are right. When I remove PERL_UNICODE a correct the html is correct. Correct title and correct content, all nicely in UTF-8. Good. I added PERL_UNICODE=SDA, because of perl 5.18 (on Linux). Perl 5.18 pod2html produces a wrong html title (double encoded?) when I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.14.4-3

2015-03-15 Thread Achim Gratz
waterlan writes: I would expect that all browsers support utf8 by now, but OK. When you open such an html file in a text editor to inspect, it is totally unreadable. The remaining problem is web servers that don't produce correct Content-Type headers. I see that all the time even on big media

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: maxima-5.35.1-2

2015-03-15 Thread Achim Gratz
This is a re-build with the new CLisp 2.49+ and a fix of some packaging errors. Maxima - Computer Algebra System Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace

Re: ssmtp stopped working after cygwin 1.7.34-6 was released

2015-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] BBuchbinder at niaid.nih.gov writes: After cygwin was updated to 1.7.34-6, ssmtp stopped working for me. You might want to try 1.7.35 before investigating further. Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: maxima-5.35.1-3

2015-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
This is a re-build with the new CLisp 2.49+ and fixes build errors in the previous release, which has therefore been removed. Maxima - Computer Algebra System Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including

Re: Changes in process spawning break perl system() function

2015-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
LRN lrn1986 at gmail.com writes: This affects 1.7.35. I can confirm this for the latest snapshot also: CYGWIN_NT-6.3 CYGWIN 1.7.36(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-11 12:02 x86_64 Cygwin Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Revoked: maxima-exec-clisp (was: Updated: maxima-5.35.1-3)

2015-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
I've revoked the maxima-exec-clisp sub-package since at the moment it doesn't survive a rebase of the clisp runtime libraries(*). If you have that package already installed please uninstall it manually (this should keep the package maxima installed). For new installations just use maxima as the

Re: Build script using gcc fails - missing ncurses?

2015-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Fergus Daly writes: PS Adding ',ncurses' to {list of packages} has made no difference: still getting error message .. cannot find -lncurses. Yes, as you already wrote yourself when asking your question, you are missing the package libcurses-devel. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12

Re: Changes in process spawning break perl system() function

2015-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: Thanks for the report. I applied a fix for that and uploaded new snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Could you please try them and report back? Fix confirmed. Regards, Achim -- Problem reports:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: The problem is this. How long do you want `ls -l' take? Checking permissions is awkward and lengthy on Windows, unless you have the user's token. The only token that's relevant for the ACL mapping w.r.t. POSIX semantics is that of the current user and Cygwin should

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: Btw., if you generate the permissions under Cygwin, a file with ---rwx--- permissions will have the matching deny ACE to make the permissions the real thing. My problem (as stated before) is specifically with a file system that's been set up so it leaves me the owner

Re: wget 1.16.2-1 does not work

2015-03-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Ulf-Dietrich Braumann writes: Hi, in the meantime I could fix the missing functionality of wget 1.16.2-1 by simply giving a second try to (solely) upgrade wget from 1.16.1-1 to 1.16.2-1. Suddenly a lot of packages wget 1.16.1-1 apparently was not depending on appeared on the resolving

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: maxima-5.35.1-1

2015-03-11 Thread Achim Gratz
TL;DR: Maxima is now available for Cygwin on both architectures. Please install the maxima-exec-clisp package. Many thanks to Ken Brown for providing the clisp packages that were needed for Maxima for Cygwin. Maxima - Computer Algebra System Maxima is a system

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.14.4-3

2015-03-05 Thread Achim Gratz
I've promoted the test release to current. The release notes that accompanied the test release are enclosed below. General --- I'm taking over as Perl maintainer from Reini Urban. Thank you Reini for the past years of maintining Perl. This release updates Perl to version 5.14.4 (the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.22.3-1

2015-03-05 Thread Achim Gratz
GNU troff has been updated to the latest upstream version 1.22.3. In addition to that update, the X11 groff tools which previously were not available on Cygwin are now in the groff-X11 sub-package. This sub-package is semi-experimental and I'd welcome feedback on its usefulness. Regards,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: - Change handling of group permissions if owner SID == group SID. Now the group permissions don't mirror the user permissions anymore, thus leading to less hassle with security-conscious applications. There's another tricky situation

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.14.4-3

2015-03-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Erwin Waterlander writes: There is something wrong with pod2man and pod2html. When I regenerate the dos2unix international man pages from pod, all the non-ascii characters are wrong. This did not happen with the previous perl version. cygcheck output, please. To reproduce: make

Re: octave/gnuplot fails with new cygwin dll.

2015-03-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri at gmail.com writes: but this portion, of my original post, could apply any way if rebase alone doesn't work move away /etc/rebase.db.i386 and rebase again for a full rebase from scratch These days, run $ rebase-trigger fullrebase then just run setup.exe

Re: XFIG not working

2015-03-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Hisham Sueyllam writes: Last time I used xfig was about 10 months ago and it was working fine, when I tried to use it recently I kept getting: can't open display: localhost:0. The xterm is working fine under xwin and I can run emacs fine from there, so I am not sure what the problem is? I am

Re: How Cygwin counters man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks

2015-03-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: That's not what I see at the moment, so you might want to check again: Forget that, I managed to read over that one line… :-P | TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA - strong Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ DIY Stuff: http

Re: How Cygwin counters man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks

2015-03-08 Thread Achim Gratz
David A. Wheeler writes: I checked Cygwin.com's SSL/TLS implementation using Qualsys ( https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ ). Cygwin.com got an overall rating of B (capped because it permits the RC4 cipher). That's not what I see at the moment, so you might want to check again: Starting

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

2015-03-07 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: This may happen on Linux as well. Just tested on a NAS runnig Debian, in a share partition: In that case you've explicitly cleared the filemodes for the owner of the file. I'm talking about a case where the file access is purely based on ACL, there are no ACL for the owner

Re: directories for temporary files

2015-03-07 Thread Achim Gratz
Reinhard Kotucha writes: However, there is a bug in /etc/profile. The variables TMP and TEMP are set to /tmp but they are absolutely useless. These variables are not used by any program. Thus all programs write temporary files to /tmp, regardless of the settings TMP or TEMP. They are used

Re: OK to update cygwin32 cygwin64 simultaneously?

2015-03-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Lester Ingber ingber at alumni.caltech.edu writes: Is it OK to update cygwin32 cygwin64 simultaneously, e.g., without any conflicts from two rebase utilities running at the same time? Different Cygwin installations don't even know of each other, and different architectures don't interoperate

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2015-03-13 Thread Achim Gratz
I've updated some more Perl distributions, most of them formerly maintained by Ken Brown who I'd like to thank for having done this in the past. Package Renames === To conform to the upstream naming, two packages were renamed: perl-Locale-gettext == perl-gettext

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions, formerly in perl_vendor and new ones

2015-03-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Obsoletions === The package perl_vendor is now obsolete (it was only in the x86 distribution). It is replaced by separate Perl distribution packages that were bundled within perl_vendor. Due to some dependency changes this is not exactly the same set of distributions that was in the

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