Re: [Review - Not yet] rdesktop

2003-11-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold L Hunt II wrote: 4) The script builds in the same directory as the source code. I don't like that. I have not yet (I hope) released a package that does this and I don't give good reviews to packages that do it. If the package fails to build out of the source directory, than you can ei

Re: [Review - Not yet] suite3270

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Peter, Peter A. Castro wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: I just reviewed your suite3270 package. Very nice work. See review below. Thanks for taking the time to review it! No problem. Package: suite3270 3.2.20-1 [2003-11-15] Description: 3270 Emulator Suite base package

Re: [Review - Not yet] suite3270

2003-11-26 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Peter, Hi Harold, > I just reviewed your suite3270 package. Very nice work. See review below. Thanks for taking the time to review it! > > Package: suite3270 3.2.20-1 [2003-11-15] > > Description: 3270 Emulator Suite base package > >Propose

Re: [Review - Not yet] libsmi

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Abe, Abe Backus wrote: Thank you Harold, I really appreciate your taking the time to review this package :) Oops, looks like the new file you posted still doesn't contain the original libsmi-0.4.1.tar.gz source file. That explains why you don't have a diff against it. Let me know when you hav

Re: [Review - Not yet] libsmi

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Abe, Abe Backus wrote: Thank you Harold, I really appreciate your taking the time to review this package :) No problem. This is weird: the -src tarball still have the CYGWIN-PATCHES directory in it... usually those files are contained in the source directory and they are created when the patch

Re: HEADSUP: cygserver now has MSG, SEM and SHM support

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:40:25PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: So, there is no "cygserver" package... it will just be part of cygwin1.dll? Is that correct? Excuse me for not following development until now... it really hasn't affected me until today. Right. cygs

Re: libPropList - Package removed long ago, still showing up in setup.ini?

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Ah ha... thanks. I always thought that the setup.ini file was overwritten each time without regard to its previous contents. I guess I was wrong. Harold Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:36:43PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Check this out: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cygwin]$ gr

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group "root"

2003-11-26 Thread Dean Scarff
Corinna Vinschen wrote: The remaining problem is the special handling of root. I guess it's best to create the /etc/group entry already in mkgroup. For mkpasswd it might be best, to add a special handling like this: If a Windows user "root" exists, give it the uid 0. any chance you can poke t

Re: HEADSUP: cygserver now has MSG, SEM and SHM support

2003-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:40:25PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >Corinna, > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>This means, not too far from now, we can drop the cygipc package and >>packages like postgresql can switch to using Cygserver. > >Additionally, most XFree86-* packages and anything that depends

Re: libPropList - Package removed long ago, still showing up in setup.ini?

2003-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:36:43PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >Check this out: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] cygwin]$ grep libPropList setup.ini >@ libPropList >ldesc: "libPropList is required by Window Maker." > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] cygwin]$ find -name "libPropList" >[EMAIL PROTECTED] cygwin]$ > > >lib

Re: HEADSUP: cygserver now has MSG, SEM and SHM support

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: This means, not too far from now, we can drop the cygipc package and packages like postgresql can switch to using Cygserver. Additionally, most XFree86-* packages and anything that depends upon XFree86-bin or XFree86-base (cgoban, emacs-X11, ghostscript-x11, grace

libPropList - Package removed long ago, still showing up in setup.ini?

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Check this out: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cygwin]$ grep libPropList setup.ini @ libPropList ldesc: "libPropList is required by Window Maker." [EMAIL PROTECTED] cygwin]$ find -name "libPropList" [EMAIL PROTECTED] cygwin]$ libPropList is still in setup.ini, but it doesn't appear to be anywhere in the cygwi

Re: HEADSUP: cygserver now has MSG, SEM and SHM support

2003-11-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > This means, not too far from now, we can drop the cygipc package and > packages like postgresql can switch to using Cygserver. Woo Hoo This just MADE my holiday! Thanks, Corinna!! You ROCK! -- Chuck

RE: [Review - Not yet] libsmi

2003-11-26 Thread Abe Backus
Thank you Harold, I really appreciate your taking the time to review this package :) I've updated the package. All files are in the same location. -Original Message- > Package: libsmi 0.4.1-1 [2003-10-11] > Description: Library to access SMI MIB information >Proposer: Abe Backus >

Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
There, now we don't have a single package on the PPL with something to review that has not at least resulted in a chastising from a grumpy programmer that knows very little about packaging :) Lets get those packages fixed, reviewed, and posted! This is fun. Harold

distcc - Awaiting another review, or waiting for fixes from first review?

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
John, Have you, or are you going to, addressed the isses listed in the PPL below for distcc? Once those minor issues have been addressed, I will try to review the package for you. I don't want to review it right now only to report the same problems though. Harold Package: distcc 2.11.1-1 [

[Review - Not yet] libsmi

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Abe, I just reviewed your libsmi package: Package: libsmi 0.4.1-1 [2003-10-11] Description: Library to access SMI MIB information Proposer: Abe Backus Proposal: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://abraham.backus.com/release/libsmi/libsmi-0.4.1-1.tar.bz2 http://abraham

[Review - Not yet] suite3270

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Peter, I just reviewed your suite3270 package. Very nice work. See review below. Package: suite3270 3.2.20-1 [2003-11-15] Description: 3270 Emulator Suite base package Proposer: Peter A. Castro Proposal: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-11/msg00198.html http://www.fruit

Re: [Review - Good to go] tzcode: The time zone package

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I'm not clear on whether you want me to upload as is or not? Harold Dr. Volker Zell wrote: "Harold" == Harold L Hunt, writes: Harold> Volker, Harold> I just reviewed your tzcode package: Thanks Harold> Minor issue: The "install" process complains repeatedly about not Harold>

Re: [Review - Good to go] tzcode: The time zone package

2003-11-26 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> "Harold" == Harold L Hunt, writes: Harold> Volker, Harold> I just reviewed your tzcode package: Thanks Harold> Minor issue: The "install" process complains repeatedly about not Harold> being able to create directories in the .inst tree that already exist. I know ...

[Review - Good to go] tzcode: The time zone package

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Volker, I just reviewed your tzcode package: -- cut here #!/bin/bash wget http://de.geocities.com/vzell1/cygwin/setup.hint.tzcode-2003d-1.zip mv setup.hint.tzcode-2003d-1.zip setup.hint wget http://de.geocities.com/vzell1/cygwin/tzcode

Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26

2003-11-26 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> "Daniel" == Daniel Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> Maintainers of existing packages are eligible to vote on ITPs and new package Daniel> proposals. Once a package has been proposed, a cygwin-apps subscriber must I already voted for the ones below and reviewed them: o htt

Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26

2003-11-26 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> "Christopher" == Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christopher> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:17:55PM +0100, Benjamin Weber wrote: >> >>> Package: joe 2.9.8-1 [2003-11-11] >>> Description: Fast and simple editor which emulates 5 other editors >>> Proposer: Jar

[Review - Not yet] tcm

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Daniel, I just reviewed your tcm package: Package: tcm 2.20-1 [2003-01-27] Description: Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM) Proposer: Daniel Boesswetter Proposal: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-01/msg00299.html http://home.in.tum.de/~boesswet/tcm-2.20-1.tar.bz

[Review - Not yet] ploticus, cabextract, joe, rxp

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jari, I think you have some generic problems with the cygbuild script. There are two or three issues in the two reviews I sent that I would like addressed in the above packages before I will take a look at them. I will review them for you if you get the generic problems addressed. Harold

[Review - Not yet] sgrep

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jari, I just looked at your sgrep package: Package: sgrep 1.99.1-1 [2003-09-15] Description: Search indexed text regions like SGML, XML and HTML files Proposer: Jari Aalto Proposal: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00166.html http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygw

[Review - Not yet] rdesktop

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jari, I just looked at your rdesktop package: Daniel Reed wrote: Package: rdesktop 1.3.0-1 [2003-11-08] Description: client for Windows terminal server. Remote desktop display Proposer: Jari Aalto Proposal: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/rdesktop/r

Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003

2003-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:20:22PM +, David F wrote: >Why overload the shebang when it would be just as simple to choose >something else? Because remembering "Now what was the magic comment field? Aha! It's the same as a shell script!" is easier than "Now what was the magic comment field was

Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003

2003-11-26 Thread David F
>It's a bit contrived, but... A *bit* contrived? Certainly not a byte contrived. A nybble contrived perhaps? >~$ ./setup.hint >bash: ./setup.hint: binary-only: bad interpreter: No such file or directory > >Perhaps the special comment should be something other than the shebang? >Just a thought.

Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26

2003-11-26 Thread Matthew Smith
I'll vote "aye" on sgrep, rdesktop, and of course joe. cheers, -Matt

Re: pre-PPL rundown [tcm]

2003-11-26 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Daniel Reed wrote: > > > Things have been a little hectic lately, and I stopped the automatic PPL > > until I had a chance to review all of its information. I just finished my > > mini-audit and believe the PPL is accurate, though certainly very long.

Re: pre-PPL rundown [tcm]

2003-11-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Daniel Reed wrote: Things have been a little hectic lately, and I stopped the automatic PPL until I had a chance to review all of its information. I just finished my mini-audit and believe the PPL is accurate, though certainly very long. Package tcm (Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling) has been in th

Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26

2003-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:33:17PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: >> >If it is possible to vote for me, I would like to vote for joe... >> >> Only package maintainers get to vote. >> >> Doesn't anyone else want to give this an "aye", even on general >> principle? > >+1 on general principle (that princip

RE: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26

2003-11-26 Thread Robb, Sam
> >If it is possible to vote for me, I would like to vote for joe... > > Only package maintainers get to vote. > > Doesn't anyone else want to give this an "aye", even on general > principle? +1 on general principle (that principle being, of course, "you can *never* have too many editors :-) -S

Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26

2003-11-26 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Daniel Reed wrote: > This is the list of pending packages as of Wednesday, November 26, 2003. > [snip] > > Waiting for vote[s]: ploticus sgrep libsmi rdesktop tzcode cabextract joe rxp > suite3270 (GAP) Some votes may have gotten lost. I believe I voted for sgrep, rdesktop

Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26

2003-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:17:55PM +0100, Benjamin Weber wrote: > >>Package: joe 2.9.8-1 [2003-11-11] >>Description: Fast and simple editor which emulates 5 other editors >> Proposer: Jari Aalto >> Proposal: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/joe/joe-2.9.8-

Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26

2003-11-26 Thread Hack Kampbjorn
Daniel Reed wrote: Package: sgrep 1.99.1-1 [2003-09-15] Description: Search indexed text regions like SGML, XML and HTML files Proposer: Jari Aalto HOLD-UPS: Not enough votes (need 1 more). No "good to go" review. Vote++ Package: tzcode 2003d-1 [2003-11-10] Description: The time zone packa

Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26

2003-11-26 Thread Benjamin Weber
Package: joe 2.9.8-1 [2003-11-11] Description: Fast and simple editor which emulates 5 other editors Proposer: Jari Aalto Proposal: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/joe/joe-2.9.8-1.tar.bz2 http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/joe/joe-2.9.8-1-sr

Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26

2003-11-26 Thread Daniel Reed
This is the list of pending packages as of Wednesday, November 26, 2003. ** PACKAGE PROPOSERS ** Please verify these fields ** Package: The name and version of the package as it will appear in setup. Proposal: Files that will be uploaded to sources.redhat.com unmodified. HOLD-UPS: What you need t

Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003

2003-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:16:38AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:10:51AM +, David F wrote: >> >>) We could decide on a comment convention for setup.hint that could be >> >>) used for some other tool to process: >>

Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:19:12AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> > BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an "up >> > for adoption" (or "orp

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group "root"

2003-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
John, On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:44:44PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:29:08PM -, Morrison, John wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Eh, no. I was thinking about a postinstall script, which checks for > > > Everyone (S-1-0-0) in /etc/passwd and /etc/group an

Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-26 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an "up > > for adoption" (or "orphaned") flag. > Why not make it a setup flag? Make a nasty little pop-up

Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003

2003-11-26 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:10:51AM +, David F wrote: > >>) We could decide on a comment convention for setup.hint that could be > >>) used for some other tool to process: > >>) > >>) #!binary only > >> > >>That works, or maybe even #!binary-only

HEADSUP: cygserver now has MSG, SEM and SHM support

2003-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi, a headsup which affects a few packages and, of course, the developers of Cygwin. Last week I have applied a pretty big patch, which turns Cygserver upside down. It now contains basically the FreeBSD kernel implementation of System V (or, in X/Open / SUSv3 speak) XSI IPC support. This means,

Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-26 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an "up > for adoption" (or "orphaned") flag. Why not make it a setup flag? Make a nasty little pop-up box pop up when you install an orphaned package - something

Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

2003-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an "up > for adoption" (or "orphaned") flag. Cool idea. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer