Re: HEADSUP: all maintainers using xmlto (0.0.23)

2011-02-11 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 11.02.2011 12:32, schrieb Jari Aalto: > > The newest version of xmlto (0.0.23) attemps to validate all documents > through open network connection. This affects all Cygwin source builds. The > symptoms: > > I/O error : Attempt to load network entity > http://docbook.sourceforge.net

cygport usability concern/best practices?

2010-12-10 Thread Matthias Andree
time, it's precious. 2. cygport foo-M-N all/almostall should include "test". The instructions that src_test() { :; } should be defined if the package doesn't support it, are there. Thanks. Best regards -- Matthias Andree

Re: Do we need a new maintainer for fetchmail?

2010-11-30 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 30.11.2010 16:12, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > We don't have a problem with maintainance sharing and we already have > packages doing that. The X server is maintained by two guys, for > instance. But it's an item of consent between the sharing maintainers. Sure. This won't work in competition

Re: Do we need a new maintainer for fetchmail?

2010-11-30 Thread Matthias Andree
at least with critical bugs in packages, or establishes the concept of a "shared maintainer" or "also permitted to upload minor updates". Best regards Matthias [1] references: http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/policies.html http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/policies_contributors.html#pr_timeout -- Matthias Andree

Do we need a new maintainer for fetchmail?

2010-11-29 Thread Matthias Andree
hmail maintainer [1] <http://gitorious.org/fetchmail/fetchmail/blobs/master/NEWS#line57> -- Matthias Andree

Re: [ITA] ocaml 3.12.0

2010-09-07 Thread Matthias Andree
7;t been really responsive and I haven't been extremely motivated to push the issue. Insight is dead for all practical purposes, but Tcl/Tk in Cygwin depending on X11 rather than Win32 would be major regression. Not that I'd have time to help though. -- Matthias Andree

Re: NOTICE for all package maintainers with faulty post-install scripts

2010-08-12 Thread Matthias Andree
mp; bar" and (b) "if foo ; then bar ; fi" as synonymous (abusively!) to accomodate their convenience, when in fact the exit semantics are different; "if" eats failures of its immediate condition command, whereas "foo && " will emit the failure status. Note that some older shell implementations (including older Almqvist and BSD shells) got some of these semantics wrong (meaning violating POSIX). -- Matthias Andree

Re: NOTICE for all package maintainers with faulty post-install scripts

2010-08-12 Thread Matthias Andree
will make matters worse and hide the now-noisy-and-formerly-silent failures more deeply in the system so that they're even harder to find, report, and fix. I also urgently seek those with upload privileges to refuse such "fixes". _____ [1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00291.html and references -- Matthias Andree

Re: HEADSUP maintainers: Change in openssl package requires change in setup.hint

2010-06-24 Thread Matthias Andree
Corinna Vinschen wrote on 2010-06-24: On Jun 24 20:13, Matthias Andree wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote on 2010-06-24: >I have no idea about this stuff. I'm maintaining openssl primarily >since it's required for openssh. If there's anything which isn't >fixed up

Re: HEADSUP maintainers: Change in openssl package requires change in setup.hint

2010-06-24 Thread Matthias Andree
Corinna Vinschen wrote on 2010-06-24: On Jun 24 15:55, Matthias Andree wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote on 2010-06-24: >Hi guys, > >according to the discussion starting here >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2010-06/msg00101.html >the layout of the openssl package has changed so t

Re: HEADSUP maintainers: Change in openssl package requires change in setup.hint

2010-06-24 Thread Matthias Andree
below): fixes: <http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2234> compat feature: <http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2272> HTH -- Matthias Andree

Re: PATCH: setup.exe 2.693 installation status incompletely shown in Create Icons/Installation Status screen

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 07.04.2010, 18:33 Uhr, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Apr 7 16:01, Matthias Andree wrote: Greetings, I propose the attached patch to fix the two issues (installation status truncated, copyright outdated) I reported on cygwin@ (see forward below), and a third issue, missing lzma and gcrypt

PATCH: setup.exe 2.693 installation status incompletely shown in Create Icons/Installation Status screen

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Andree
|8 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) The patch is actually against ~2.695 from CVS (already includes Corinna's fix for privileged rename on reboot). HTH --- Forwarded message --- From: "Matthias Andree" Subject: setup.exe 2.693 inst