Re: fc-cache: failed to write cache

2009-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:47:59AM +0800, Steven Woody wrote: >Hi, > >I removed cygwin1.5 on both of my two computers, one is a laptop and >another is a desktop, they are all Windows XP. ?I then installed >cygwin 1.7 for them, the result is strange. ?The laptop seems okay, >but the desktop, after I

fc-cache: failed to write cache

2009-10-09 Thread Steven Woody
Hi, I removed cygwin1.5 on both of my two computers, one is a laptop and another is a desktop, they are all Windows XP.  I then installed cygwin 1.7 for them, the result is strange.  The laptop seems okay, but the desktop, after I tried re-install many times, still always fail when I execute fa-ca

Re: Customizable cygwin setup.exe

2009-10-09 Thread Miles Gazic
> it probably would have been better to have checked here > first before going to such effort. Sorry, when I investigated this originally, the -p option didn't exist in the mainstream setup.exe. I found a patch that did it, edited it slightly to work with the latest rev of setup.exe (at the time s

Re: Customizable cygwin setup.exe

2009-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:41:42PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: >Miles Gazic wrote: >>I made a local cygwin mirror at my company, but I still had some people >>that got confused when installing cygwin. I've had the same problem at >>previous jobs, where people are confused when installing cygwin, an

Re: Customizable cygwin setup.exe

2009-10-09 Thread Ralph Hempel
Miles Gazic wrote: I made a local cygwin mirror at my company, but I still had some people that got confused when installing cygwin. I've had the same problem at previous jobs, where people are confused when installing cygwin, and it makes them reluctant to do so. I investigated what's required

Customizable cygwin setup.exe

2009-10-09 Thread Miles Gazic
I made a local cygwin mirror at my company, but I still had some people that got confused when installing cygwin.  I've had the same problem at previous jobs, where people are confused when installing cygwin, and it makes them reluctant to do so. I investigated what's required to customize the cyg

Boost packages (libboost, boost-devel, boost)

2009-10-09 Thread Joel Eidsath
Hello, As I was told there is no current maintainer, I am volunteering to maintain the three cygwin boost packages. However, I have a couple of questions: 1) Should I just build the packages for cygwin 1.7, or do they need to be built for 1.5 and 1.7? 2) Does anybody know what problem the two pat

Re: Packaging glitch [1.7] md5sum binutils-2.19.51-1-src.tar.bz2

2009-10-09 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: BTW, before jumping clumsily in with my dirty great size 9s, I did also download the -src tarball with the dubious checksum and verify it (by diffing against a recent cvs checkout) to make sure it hadn't *actually* been tampered with; I didn't spot any suspicious insertions.

Re: Packaging glitch [1.7] md5sum binutils-2.19.51-1-src.tar.bz2

2009-10-09 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > PLEASE don't tinker with the release directories, especially in an > attempt to fix my packages. Understood, sorry, won't do that again. The original md5.sum is in my ~/ if you need it for anything. The time stamp reads "Jul 5 02:01" which I think is the only poss

Re: Packaging glitch [1.7] md5sum binutils-2.19.51-1-src.tar.bz2

2009-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:49:09PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: >> Fergus wrote: >>> Downloaded from two different mirrors this file has md5sum >>> 479d8f95c1306486af1adcb5a2ad54b1 >>> but setup-2.ini gives >>> c3887f0ef36cc78c51c54abca9b4425a >>> The file size 15536137 is correct. >>

Re: Packaging glitch [1.7] md5sum binutils-2.19.51-1-src.tar.bz2

2009-10-09 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: > Fergus wrote: >> Downloaded from two different mirrors this file has md5sum >> 479d8f95c1306486af1adcb5a2ad54b1 >> but setup-2.ini gives >> c3887f0ef36cc78c51c54abca9b4425a >> The file size 15536137 is correct. > > > Yes indeed. Looks like fallout from: > > http://cygwin.co