Re: tar and lzma

2008-02-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 2/28/2008 9:32 PM: | Eric Blake wrote: | |> automake's dist-lzma already functions if you install lzma (I know, |> because I used it when creating m4 1.4.10b); automake uses 'tar | lzma' |> rather than 'tar --lzma'. | | R

Re: tar and lzma

2008-02-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Blake wrote: > automake's dist-lzma already functions if you install lzma (I know, > because I used it when creating m4 1.4.10b); automake uses 'tar | lzma' > rather than 'tar --lzma'. Right; I meant having lzma (vicariously) in Base would also help users of automake. Brian

Re: tar and lzma

2008-02-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 2/28/2008 9:07 PM: |> The --lzma option only works if lzma |> is properly installed. | | This would also allow the new automake dist-lzma to function. automake's dist-lzma already functions if you install lzma (I know, b

Re: tar and lzma

2008-02-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Blake wrote: > Arguments for: it already depends on gzip and bzip2. Also, there was talk > on this list a while ago about switching to lzma, instead of bzip2, for > files installed via setup.exe, since it gives the best compression ratios > to decompression speed tradeoff among all the popul

tar and lzma

2008-02-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm about to upload tar 1.19.90, which adds the --lzma command-line option. Should I make tar depend on the lzma package? Arguments for: it already depends on gzip and bzip2. Also, there was talk on this list a while ago about switching to lzma, in

Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-02-28 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" <> To: Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:34 AM Subject: Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1] | only reason we need another account for those of our services which have | to switch user context w/o password (sshd, in

Re: colordiff installs by default

2008-02-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jerry D. Hedden on 2/26/2008 7:18 AM: | The newly added distribution 'colordiff' is set to install by default | in setup.exe. Please change it such that it needs to be selected to | be installed. Thanks. | I noticed that current setup.

Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 28 11:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Actually it's deprecated to use the SYSTEM account for services unless > the service really needs SYSTEM permissions. In XP Microsoft > started with introducing the "LocalService" (S-1-5-19) and > "NetworkService" (S-1-5-20) accounts which have much less

Re: [ITP] iprint 1.3 -- Command-line integer, hex, octal and ascii print utility

2008-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 27 18:58, Jari Aalto wrote: > http://cygwin.cante.net/iprint/iprint-1.3-1-src.tar.bz2 \ > http://cygwin.cante.net/iprint/iprint-1.3-1.tar.bz2 \ > http://cygwin.cante.net/iprint/setup.hint Uploaded. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regar

Re: [ITP] VOTE: nrss 0.3.9 -- A ncurses-based RSS reader

2008-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 27 13:00, Jari Aalto wrote: > > Included in Debian unstable. Needs votes. > > http://packages.debian.org/nrss > > This is quite nice RSS reader with easy configuration file: > > $ cat ~/.nrss/config > > browser "/usr/bin/lynx" \"%u\"" > columns "2" > add "http://rss.

Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]

2008-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 27 22:22, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> (4a) rewrite syslog-ng-config to use it > > Okay, thanks. Don't get me wrong. I was not suggesting that you should do all these conversions. It would be nice to have one or two template scripts, like iu-config and syslog