Re: [ITCM] diffutils findutils

2021-08-04 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin-apps
On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 06:43:25PM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: > Hi folks, > > Eric Blake no longer seems to have free time available for Cygwin package > upgrades, so I would like to offer to co-maintain diffutils and findutils, > and provide upgrades, as they are both five yea

Re: [ITP] wget2 - modern fast parallel file and recursive website downloader

2020-10-30 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin-apps
ner upload as Eric seems > MIA: Yes, my time for cygwin has greatly diminished, so you are welcome to take over wget. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

Re: [PATCH libtirpc] Disable libtirpc's own bindresvport{,_sa}() in favor of Cygwin's

2018-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
e 'diff -u' (what git does by default) or 'diff -c' when generating a patch, so that it has proper context. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org

Re: [ITP] cygregext (formerly cygscript)

2017-04-28 Thread Eric Blake
;> This application is not included in any other distro, so i reckon a vote >>>> must be first passed. >>> >>> +1 At any rate, I'm also +1 for inclusion, whether or not you take my naming suggestion. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc.

Re: [SECURITY] libidn - locale specific error in test suite

2017-01-19 Thread Eric Blake
that now wants to reconstruct what the current locale is. So being able to reconstruct the names of the thread-local locale via gl_locale_name() makes the library less coupled to the main app's setup. In particular, at least gettext wants to use it. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+

Re: [SECURITY] libidn - locale specific error in test suite

2017-01-19 Thread Eric Blake
work >> around the bug. > > Thanks for letting us know! Proposed gnulib patch; can be applied to any project that uses gnulib and wants to avoid the test-localename failure during 'make check'. https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00259.html -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+

Re: [SECURITY] libidn - locale specific error in test suite

2017-01-19 Thread Eric Blake
hich can be used as follows: locale = newlocale(...); uselocale(locale); nl_langinfo_l(NL_LOCALE_NAME(LC_MESSAGES), locale); to recover the name of the LC_MESSAGES portion of the locale object. As Cygwin lacks that macro, there is NO way to access the locale name of what went into constructing a

Re: [SECURITY] libidn - locale specific error in test suite

2017-01-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/18/2017 09:23 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/18/2017 06:12 AM, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > >>>> >>>> The source code can be found in the file (after unpacking of >>>> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.33.tar.gz) >>>> >>>>

Re: [SECURITY] libidn - locale specific error in test suite

2017-01-18 Thread Eric Blake
s/test-localename.c >> >> Do you have a self-contained testcase, by any chance? > > No, just the testcase from the testsuite in libidn. The test comes from gnulib, so I'm familiar with ideas on how to try and whittle it down to a smaller self-contained test. I'll see if I

Re: [PATCH] src_postinst.cygpart: Sanitize binary data in bash command subst

2016-12-16 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/16/2016 02:40 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > bash 4.4 now warns about skipping NUL bytes in $(command), since > command substitution is only well-formed for commands that output > text, but NUL bytes are not text. Silence the warning by removing > NUL bytes from the stream before bash

Re: [PATCH] src_postinst.cygpart: Sanitize binary data in bash command subst

2016-12-16 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/16/2016 02:40 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > bash 4.4 now warns about skipping NUL bytes in $(command), since > command substitution is only well-formed for commands that output > text, but NUL bytes are not text. Silence the warning by removing > NUL bytes from the stream before bash

[PATCH] src_postinst.cygpart: Sanitize binary data in bash command subst

2016-12-16 Thread Eric Blake
bash 4.4 now warns about skipping NUL bytes in $(command), since command substitution is only well-formed for commands that output text, but NUL bytes are not text. Silence the warning by removing NUL bytes from the stream before bash can see them. --- lib/src_postinst.cygpart | 4 ++-- 1 file ch

Re: per-version hints proposal

2016-09-22 Thread Eric Blake
ing else), where the prev, curr, and test parameters are optional according to what is desired (if all three are omitted, push a directive to delete any existing override.hint and fall back to normal version picking). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: per-version hints proposal

2016-06-21 Thread Eric Blake
ng like "prev" at all since the version > number itself is sufficient to specify what's curr and what's old. Except when upstream version numbers go backwards. We'd have to adopt something like Fedora's "epoch" numbering if we want our version numbers to

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] ARCH=noarch uploads with cygport 0.22.0

2016-06-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/07/2016 09:14 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2016-06-07 08:58, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 06/06/2016 04:23 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>> Eric Blakebashdb >> >> I'm still listed as maintainer here? I thought you took over. But yes, >> s

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] ARCH=noarch uploads with cygport 0.22.0

2016-06-07 Thread Eric Blake
ent for >> upset which generates setup.ini), packages marked ARCH=noarch will be >> uploaded once under the /noarch/release hierarchy instead of into each >> of /x86/release and /x86_64/release. This change is intended to save >> disk space and bandwidth for both sourceware and our

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] ARCH=noarch uploads with cygport 0.22.0

2016-05-11 Thread Eric Blake
y bash-completion and cvsutils are the most likely candidates, although I haven't yet fully checked if they are indeed arch-independent. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH setup 0/3] Setup replacement for incver_ifdep

2016-01-28 Thread Eric Blake
m missing something. Oooh, scary. Yeah, it looks like utter nonsense, as that would indeed give the PID of bash followed by a literal f, but who wants to look up info of '1234f'? I wonder if someone writing the script copied incorrectly from a Makefile? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH setup 0/3] Setup replacement for incver_ifdep

2016-01-28 Thread Eric Blake
would it be expected to succeed after the first install-info command > failed? Sadly, I don't know install-info enough to answer that one. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Changing Setup's license to GPLv3+

2016-01-22 Thread Eric Blake
he "or later" clause of all linked-in v2 code), whether or not the individual source files still state v2+. > > I could be wrong, in which case this is another argument against GPLv3. The > thing is viral even to past versions of itself. > > FWIW, I’m no zealot. I’ve got GPL’d and LGPL’d code out in the world. I’m > just pointing out that restrictive licenses (“free,” hah!) bring along a bag > of problems. GPLv3 adds a bunch more restrictions. > -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Uploading packages built against Perl 5.2.2 [

2015-07-28 Thread Eric Blake
r of crawling all directories that have a !perl tag at the trigger point, and adding a !ready to those directories, that seems simple enough to do. I think upset will just ignore !perl, which makes it a nice tag to look for manually. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvir

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated for 32-bit, new for 64-bit: libsigsegv-2.10-2

2015-07-20 Thread Eric Blake
libsigsegv-2.10-2. And if I recompile m4 against cygwin 2.2.0-0.1 headers, I end up with a 32k stack which also works. That means that so far, I have not found any problems with your new smaller stack sizing requirements. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated for 32-bit, new for 64-bit: libsigsegv-2.10-2

2015-07-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/18/2015 02:11 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 18 12:18, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 07/17/2015 05:22 PM, Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: >>> A new release of libsigsegv, 2.10-2, will soon be available for download >>> from your favorite mirror. On 32-bit cy

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated for 32-bit, new for 64-bit: libsigsegv-2.10-2

2015-07-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/17/2015 05:22 PM, Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: > A new release of libsigsegv, 2.10-2, will soon be available for download > from your favorite mirror. On 32-bit cygwin, this leaves 2.10-1 as > previous; on 64-bit cygwin, it is a new port of the package, made > possible for the f

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-06-05 Thread Eric Blake
ame-based filtering still assumes something is executable without checking contents, or that picking a different name makes it trivially easy to bypass such filters. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: setup

2015-06-03 Thread Eric Blake
ith admin rights, I'm not sure. Same key for both personal login and package upload is fine. The only time two keys are needed is if you are granted admin rights as the 'cygwin' user. In that case, package upload and admin login need different keys, but it is then up to you wh

Re: [ITA] perl-Error, perl-Locale-gettext, perl-Win32-GUI, perl-libwin32

2015-03-12 Thread Eric Blake
;m fine letting you take over perl-Error). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH setup 4/4] Silently ignore 'x' and 'g' type tar extended headers

2015-03-05 Thread Eric Blake
needed attributes so far. At any rate, ignoring extensions until we have both a need and the code for honoring the extension makes sense, so my question shouldn't stall your patch. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies [GOLDSTARS]

2015-03-04 Thread Eric Blake
plush hippo is above and beyond the level of effort it took :) [has it really been since 2009 for my last gold star?] -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [setup] Makefile.am patches

2015-02-18 Thread Eric Blake
h master > Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. > nothing to commit, working directory clean git push --tag release_2.870 > > Git is puzzeling... Yeah, it's a hefty learning curve. But once you get past that point, you wonder how you ever survived on CVS. --

Re: [setup] Makefile.am patches

2015-02-16 Thread Eric Blake
ile in git, you don't need gitlog-to-changelog. Basically, it is a choice of which of two alternate methods are easiest for maintaining log history (I'd lean towards the use of gitlog-to-changelog, although I'm used to both approaches in different upstream GNU projects). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [setup] Makefile.am patches

2015-02-16 Thread Eric Blake
intain them as the git commit instead of in a file named ChangeLog, so it's less hassle. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Setup patch to keep test version if test version installed

2015-02-06 Thread Eric Blake
ad time to try it - the difficulties lie more in getting the coreutils Makefile to target the difference in cygwin naming with .dll instead of .so and with .exe suffixes to worry about). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Updated: [32-bit] libreadline7-6.1.2-4, libreadline-devel-6.1.2-4

2015-01-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/27/2015 03:57 PM, Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: > This is a minor rebuild to sort out packaging issues and refresh against > newer cygwin (no source changes). I have renamed the development > package from 'readline' to 'libreadline-devel', to match the naming >

readline package rename question

2015-01-26 Thread Eric Blake
ng my new build to current too soon). What implications does this have to the readline->libreadline-devel rename? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: HEADSUP Maintainers: Stale packages on sourceware

2014-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
otal of over 1.3Gib. > > Do maintainers have any objections to these being removed? No complaints from me (and on seeing this email, I manually removed stale files for packages I maintain, such as dash and diffutils) -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualiz

Re: patch: typo fix in setup.exe

2014-10-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/10/2014 11:28 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 10 10:40, Eric Blake wrote: >> ping >> >> On 09/27/2014 10:27 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >>> Assuming this is the right place for this patch - something I noticed >>> today, when I got an er

Re: patch: typo fix in setup.exe

2014-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
ping On 09/27/2014 10:27 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > Assuming this is the right place for this patch - something I noticed > today, when I got an error message including the word "thelist". > > > 2014-09-27 Eric Blake > > * res.rc: Fix mi

patch: typo fix in setup.exe

2014-09-27 Thread Eric Blake
Assuming this is the right place for this patch - something I noticed today, when I got an error message including the word "thelist". 2014-09-27 Eric Blake * res.rc: Fix missing space. Index: res.rc === RCS

Re: [ITP] libsuexec 1.0

2014-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
ithout the actual source getting patched on a system where >> those assumptions aren't true. Looks like different thing to me and >> giving it a different name surely wouldn't hurt. > fakesu? I like this one. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266

Re: [ITA] Git et al

2014-08-18 Thread Eric Blake
the remaining package wrinkle before actually pushing a package, but even though I had a slight issue in rebuilding the package, I haven't had any problems using the pre-built binaries. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [ITA] Git et al

2014-08-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/13/2014 01:37 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> The packages and setup.hint files are all ready to use and/or upload >> from http://tastycake.net/~adam/cygwin/. Before I can go ahead and >> release, I think I need to be added to cygwin-pkg-maint so I can send in >> an SSH ke

Re: [ITA] Git et al

2014-08-13 Thread Eric Blake
os), I'll update cygwin-pkg-maint to list you as maintainer and reply back. It may be this weekend before I actually get the time to spend on it, though. Thanks again for stepping up and adopting this from me. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [RFU/ITP] hostname 3.13-1

2014-08-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/12/2014 02:00 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/07/2013 02:04 PM, Christian Franke wrote: >> >> This one could be uploaded when a hostname-less coreutils is available >> also for x86 distro: >> >> wget -e robots=off -np -nH --cut-dirs=1 -R'index.html*'

Re: [RFU/ITP] hostname 3.13-1

2014-08-12 Thread Eric Blake
aving the 32-bit coreutils in test until you can repost this package for upload. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Web page describing upload procedure

2014-04-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/15/2014 07:27 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 07:20:38PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 10/23/2013 12:46 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-upload.html >> >> Can we get a link to this page li

SSH key for upload access

2014-04-15 Thread Eric Blake
Name: Eric Blake Package: m4 BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY Comment: "4096-bit RSA, converted by eblake@home from OpenSSH" B3NzaC1yc2EDAQABAAACAQDahsY06ilBIRHkSiXtTxF01fLt6WSaIOL+hNqPLf tAGp8bZ3GyExNlQe1zu2PLPAeZ+idfu/JFxk6eQ3Z/uqTZI7U6IWTiJqutJVoagTmr/ucq

Re: Web page describing upload procedure

2014-04-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/23/2013 12:46 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-upload.html Can we get a link to this page listed on the older contribution guide: cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library h

Re: [ITA] Git et al

2014-01-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/15/2014 04:06 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On 13 January 2014 23:58, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> On 13 January 2014 21:32, Eric Blake wrote: >>> That said, while I don't have as much time for cygwin packaging, I >>> still DO plan on using git on cygwin, so I at le

Re: [ITA] Git et al

2014-01-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/11/2014 01:01 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > Our Git package hasn't been updated in a long time. Although its > maintainer, Eric Blake, has been on the mailing lists, I don't think > he's done any work in keeping Git up-to-date (including replying to a > number of re

Re: SSH key for upload access

2013-10-30 Thread Eric Blake
ecifies this? SMTP (RFC 2821) recommends that clients not send lines longer than 999 bytes; many mailers obey this by using "!\n" as the continuation sequence to break long lines into something that fits SMTP. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualizat

Re: RFU: pristine-tar-1.28-1 (32bit)

2013-09-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/14/2013 10:39 PM, Jari Aalto wrote: > 2013-09-15 05:34 Eric Blake > : > | On 09/11/2013 12:07 PM, Jari Aalto wrote: > | > | > wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \ > | > > http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/pristine-tar/pris

Re: RFU: pristine-tar-1.28-1 (32bit)

2013-09-14 Thread Eric Blake
r.bz2 \ > http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/pristine-tar/setup.hint Jari, can you please chime in on my question about xdelta? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-09/msg00210.html -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org sign

Re: Missing 64 bit packages

2013-09-14 Thread Eric Blake
e can check if some packages are > orphaned, or if you are just busy. > > > Eric Blake > > cppi > patchutils > xdelta cppi is now available, which means I finally have a working 64-bit build environment; hopefully I can get the others up soon, as well as rebuild the

Re: [ITP] asa 1.1

2013-09-11 Thread Eric Blake
of relevance for someone that cares about getting a POSIX environment and uses Fortran, just not enough to make it the Base category. Treat it like cygutils-extra, and put it in the Utils category. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [ITP] hostname 3.12 (Attn: coreutils maintainer)

2013-04-09 Thread Eric Blake
t. I guess that means I really need to make some time to fire up my windows machine and do a new coreutils build. I'll reply again when I have a package ready to go, so that we can coordinate uploads (assuming no one else objects to the plan). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1

Re: 64 bit: build problems

2013-03-29 Thread Eric Blake
ur linkdir is apparently '/'. That's not good here since > it leads to the leading double slash. If you can set your linkdir to '///', then no matter what else happens at least you won't end up trying to access a network path. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat c

Re: request to hold off on uploading new packages

2013-03-26 Thread Eric Blake
Are we all clear to upload now? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: patch for build mc-4.8.7 cygwin 64 bit

2013-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
\ > || (strcmp (Fs_type, "none") == 0\ > && !hasmntopt (Fs_ent, "bind"))) Actually, for any package afflicted by this gnulib bug (coreutils and findutils have also both hit it), I've been applying this upstream gnulib patch: http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.gi

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-21 Thread Eric Blake
which contains > your packages built by someone else? Yes. > > There are probably other considerations that I haven't thought of. Any > insights welcome. > -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Possible changes to setup.exe interface and name

2012-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
these changes my self but I need feed > back and permission from the community. Go for it - this is open source, so you can make the changes for your own use even if the community doesn't like them. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://l

Re: mtr package compilation under cygwin

2012-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/20/2012 08:26 AM, SPC wrote: > Hello again and sorry (Jari mostly) for a previous message with a > wrong subject. I'll repeat. Still the wrong list. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Descripti

Re: O: jikes

2012-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
n't even be bothered to change the subject line. And your question is more appropriate for the main cygwin list, as it has nothing to do with packaging an application for distribution as part of the cygwin project. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualizat

Re: O: jikes

2012-09-19 Thread Eric Blake
ned upstream and has never been > updated to Java 5. Seconded, as the guy who orphaned it upstream when Java 5 came out. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH] setup.exe build instructions outdated; build doesn't bootstrap cleanly

2012-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
since I know that newlib recently enabled a git mirror. And there's ways of using git as your frontend to a CVS (or svn) repository. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [RFU] TeX Live 2012 (texlive-20120628-1, etc.)

2012-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/17/2012 12:18 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > And another one: > > cd TeX/texlive > sed -i -e 's/libpoppler19/libpoppler26/' setup.hint Done. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Descri

Re: future of su

2012-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/29/2012 02:58 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 29.05.2012 17:37, schrieb Eric Blake: >> Upstream coreutils is considering completely dropping su, in favor of >> having util-linux provide su across all GNU/Linux distros. Right now, >> cygwin's su.exe comes from co

future of su

2012-05-29 Thread Eric Blake
ve. Is it better to completely drop su from cygwin, or should I coordinate with the util-linux maintainer to hand control of su out of coreutils and over to util-linux? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc D

Re: RM: spamprobe

2012-03-26 Thread Eric Blake
ernatives > > I created an empty package and moved the category to "_obsolete". Jari, please send an announcement mail declaring that the package is obsolete. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: realpath: cygutils or coreutils?

2012-02-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/09/2012 11:27 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 02:12 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >> On 2/6/2012 11:49 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >>> I've uploaded coreutils-8.15-1 as a test release; I can kick it over to >>> current once you've got a cygu

Re: realpath: cygutils or coreutils?

2012-02-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/05/2012 01:53 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > 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 coreutil

Re: realpath: cygutils or coreutils?

2012-01-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/30/2012 05:01 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 u

realpath: cygutils or coreutils?

2012-01-30 Thread Eric Blake
kage with realpath included, and wait to upload it until we can coordinate a build with cygutils dropping the weaker variant? Or do we want to keep the cygutils variant for a while longer? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH] setup -e, --separate-src-dirs option

2011-12-15 Thread Eric Blake
ls has a bigger up-front cost for the person doing the repacking, but provides a more efficient and instant downstream effect. That, and repacking seems fairly easy to automate. I'm now 75-25 in favor of cgf's proposed approach of repacking things and leaving setup.exe alone. -- Eric

Re: [PATCH] setup -e, --separate-src-dirs option

2011-12-15 Thread Eric Blake
'm wondering if what you did in your patch shouldn't be just the > default behaviour. No -e option. +1 to doing this by default, with no option. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [ITP] win-ssh-agent 1.07

2011-11-04 Thread Eric Blake
s a void for interaction with existing cygwin apps. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: SECURITY: wget

2011-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
ds-up. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: [patch/rebase] Make rebase 64 bit capable (was Re: [patch/rebase] Make imagehelper 64-bit capable)

2011-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
I64x size 0x%08lx\n", > +#endif Do we need the #ifdef, or can we get away with including and doing: printf ("%-47s base 0x%08" PRIx64 " size 0x%08lx\n") and let PRIx64 take care of the ll vs. I64 spelling? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt

Re: [patch/rebase] Add a rebase database to keep track of DLL addresses

2011-07-05 Thread Eric Blake
he > use of strcmp() to compare names? strcmp is immune to locale effects (only strcoll cares about locale, with the two functions being equal in the C locale). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: libsigsegv packaging problem

2011-05-03 Thread Eric Blake
rflow_context_t to void * for applications? > THus we can drop the unfortunate inclusion of windows.h and not clutter > the POSIX namespace with Windows definitions. That's what I argued when I wrote the patch a year ago April. Also, my patch is available at http://repo.or.cz/w/libsigseg

Re: I think there's an error in the boxes postinstall script

2011-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
sly reported, and no action after 2 months :( http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-02/msg00463.html Adding cygwin-apps in cc to see if the maintainer is even listening. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Descript

Re: Problems installing from Cygwinports

2011-03-31 Thread Eric Blake
> since these errors are unreported (see comment in io_stream::copy), we just > stop expanding the archive, leaving an incomplete glxext.h Would returning -EIO be better, since a negative value is a key that something went wrong besides normal end of file? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.co

Re: ITP dos2unix 5.2.1-1

2011-03-15 Thread Eric Blake
art of cygwin. 'cygcheck -p dos2unix' shows that it is part of cygutils, so I see no reason to repackage it as an alternative build. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [ ATTN : bash mantainer ] Request to enable sys-wide conffiles

2010-12-29 Thread Eric Blake
't seem to source ~/.bashrc. > > One related question: if SYS_BASHRC were enabled, would SSH_SOURCE_BASHRC try > to source /etc/bash.bashrc or ~/.bashrc? The coment in config-top.h only > mentions the latter. (This is just curiosity) I'd have to read the source code to sa

Re: [PATCH 5/5] Canonicalize manually added mirror URLs to ensure they end with a '/'

2010-11-10 Thread Eric Blake
t; potentially cause their contents to get downloaded again. Can't we also patch things to look for a trailing %2f, and perform a rename() to strip it, so as to avoid the manual cleanup? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: ITP: autobuild

2010-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
27;m arguing that it is NOT a build requirement for libtool, it means we need a previous distro link or the full 5 votes. We're at 2 now; anyone else want to chime in? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Re: ITP: autobuild

2010-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
.m4 (such as coreutils and m4), but they include it in the tarball rather than expecting it to be pre-installed the way libtool 2.4 appears to be doing things. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

package conflict: cygwin and sunrpc

2010-08-17 Thread Eric Blake
into cygwin proper, is it time to obsolete sunrpc? On the other hand, libvirt wants to #include , which only sunrpc provides; is it time to provide that header as part of base cygwin? https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-August/msg00375.html -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1

Re: gcc4-core PACKAGE BUG

2010-08-14 Thread Eric Blake
hat would probably generate > some confusion. My only worry now is if any mirrors will have a stale checksum that doesn't correspond to the new tarball. But I'm convinced that it's worth trying the silent upgrade, now. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Lib

Re: gcc4-core PACKAGE BUG

2010-08-14 Thread Eric Blake
omparable to yum's presto mode that makes delta downloading easier for simple things like adding an x bit. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH] Rename setup.exe's "Partial" view to "Changing"

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/25/2010 10:58 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> I agree that "Partial" needs renaming but I don't think "Changing" is >> clearer. >> >> How about "Updating"? > > "Changes"? "Modified"? "Pending&qu

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-04-30 Thread Eric Blake
asonable? I would like to add the transition date > to my release announcement. Is there a quick list of all packages that depend on python? I know asciidoc is affected, and I'm working on repackaging it soon, but I'm not sure if any of my other packages might be affected.

Re: [attn: less maintainer] broken dependency

2010-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
gt; Having a maintainer: tag in setup.hint -- even if upset/genini just > ignore it -- would make that a lot easier. Most of my setup.hints have a strategic comment, for that reason: #maintainer: ... -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvir

[attn: less maintainer] broken dependency

2010-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
I just noticed a broken dependency for less. I've updated the setup.hint for less to call out libncurses10, instead of libncurses9. You'll need to do the same in your local copy. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://l

Re: [RFU]: gsl-1.14-2

2010-04-05 Thread Eric Blake
rather than on the packager. For good or bad, it's certainly less time-consuming as a moderator to hit approve than it is to do research. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: R: [ITP] cppi

2010-03-30 Thread Eric Blake
gt;> GTG for me > > Thanks to both of you. Please upload, Eric. Uploaded. Where is the maintainer list located, so I can update that? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[ITP] cppi

2010-03-29 Thread Eric Blake
ent indentation style, and to validate that indentation is correct." category: Devel requires: libgcc1 libintl8 #maintainer: Eric Blake Just accepted into stable Fedora 12 this week: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570627#c15 -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-

Re: Please upload cron 4.1-59

2010-03-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/12/2010 09:14 AM, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> Should I also delete 4.1-6 and 4.1-7? > > Yes, those were for cygwin 1.5 Done. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Please upload cron 4.1-59

2010-03-12 Thread Eric Blake
src.tar.bz2 Done. I also edited your setup.hint to drop the requires: cygwin, as that is now automatic. Should I also delete 4.1-6 and 4.1-7? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Please upload: singular 3.1.1-1 packages

2010-03-01 Thread Eric Blake
According to Frank Seelisch on 3/1/2010 8:32 AM: > Please upload the following package updates for singular: > ... > > Please keep the following versions as previous (same order as above): Done. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization

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