Re: ITP checkbashisms -- Check for bashisms in /bin/sh scripts

2012-02-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/4/2012 3:55 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: checkbashisms script has been included in Debian since 200x (don't know exatly; its git log starts in 2007). It's part of the devsripts in Debian. To check build: tar -xf check*.bz2 ./check*.sh --color --verbose all We're not debian, and don't

Re: realpath: cygutils or coreutils?

2012-02-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/30/2012 8:50 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: While you're at it, what about ascii(1)? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-10/msg00113.html Nobody ever responded to my comments at the end of that thread, so it kinda went into limbo. Given two +1 votes (your own and Christian Franke's)

Re: Bug in csih

2012-02-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/16/2012 5:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Chuck? Ping? How's this? (BTW, we do similar stuff in csih_create_privileged_user() but I didn't address that). Index: cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh === RCS file:

Re: realpath: cygutils or coreutils?

2012-02-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/30/2012 7:01 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 1/30/2012 3:32 PM, Eric Blake wrote: In particular, it is much more powerful than the realpath(1) currently offered by cygutils. Should I build my next coreutils package with realpath included, and wait to upload it until we can coordinate a build

Re: ITP checkbashisms -- Check for bashisms in /bin/sh scripts

2012-02-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 14:41 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: We're not debian, and don't explicitly exclude the use of bashism in *ALL* [/usr]/bin/*.sh scripts. Even debian doesn't disallow bashisms i *usr*/bin/ scripts -- and as /bin == /usr/bin on cygwin, we can't realy distinguish between

CFA: support Windows 8 in /usr/lib/csih/winProductName.exe

2012-02-05 Thread Charles Wilson
Call for assistance: can somebody with access to Windows 8 provide an appropriate tested patch so that winProductName can recognize Windows 8 (various flavors, including Windows Server 8)? Getting the System Version http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724429%28v=vs.85%29.aspx has not