Christopher Faylor writes:
> You can always download them directly from ftp.cygwin.com but I wouldn't
> advertise that fact too heavily. We have mirrors to keep the load on
> cygwin.com/sourceware.org as light as possible.
Thanks. Being able to use this has alerted me to the fact that I
needed t
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:30:02PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
>> That's very thoughtful of you but I think I'd rather not experiment with
>> version number ordering. I think you should just bump the -N part to
>> the next higher number and let Chuck deal with bumping his
Christopher Faylor writes:
> That's very thoughtful of you but I think I'd rather not experiment with
> version number ordering. I think you should just bump the -N part to
> the next higher number and let Chuck deal with bumping his version number
> twice. I think that will be less confusing to
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:05:39PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
>> Package updates happen every five minutes so you were probably only
>> a minute or so from having inetutils upload privileges.
>
>I've seen that and almost put the update out, but I have one question: I
>gav
Christopher Faylor writes:
> Package updates happen every five minutes so you were probably only
> a minute or so from having inetutils upload privileges.
I've seen that and almost put the update out, but I have one question: I
gave the patched tar file a release number of "1p1" so that Chuck can
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:39:46PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> Done. Achim, if you would be so kind...
>
>I'll do it tomorrow evening as the latest update of the !package file
>hasn't picked it up yet. I have an early morning meeting tomorrow and
>need to fetch some sle
Corinna Vinschen writes:
> Done. Achim, if you would be so kind...
I'll do it tomorrow evening as the latest update of the !package file
hasn't picked it up yet. I have an early morning meeting tomorrow and
need to fetch some sleep, so I don't want to wait another hour… hope
this is OK.
Regard
On Apr 7 15:23, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Apr 7 14:20, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:19:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> >On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:08:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrot
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr 7 14:20, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:19:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:08:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >>On Apr 5 12:20, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> >>>
On Apr 7 14:20, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:19:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:08:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>On Apr 5 12:20, Achim Gratz wrote:
> >>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> >>> > FYI, I contacted Chuck off-list 6 days
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:19:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:08:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>On Apr 5 12:20, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>>> > FYI, I contacted Chuck off-list 6 days ago but he didn't reply yet.
>>>
>>> Same here.
>>>
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:08:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr 5 12:20, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> > FYI, I contacted Chuck off-list 6 days ago but he didn't reply yet.
>>
>> Same here.
>>
>> > I hope Chuck will still reply in the next couple of days, but if not
On Apr 5 12:20, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > FYI, I contacted Chuck off-list 6 days ago but he didn't reply yet.
>
> Same here.
>
> > I hope Chuck will still reply in the next couple of days, but if not, we
> > have to find some solution to be able to go forward.
>
> I am u
Corinna Vinschen writes:
> FYI, I contacted Chuck off-list 6 days ago but he didn't reply yet.
Same here.
> I hope Chuck will still reply in the next couple of days, but if not, we
> have to find some solution to be able to go forward.
I am updating some packages this weekend, so if someone can
On Mar 23 15:04, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Achim Gratz writes:
> >> Other than that, it looks good to me. I'd say, let's go for it when
> >> you're ready.
>
> New version with those changes has been uploaded:
>
> --8<---cut here---start->8---
> wget="wget -rxnH --c
Achim Gratz writes:
>> Other than that, it looks good to me. I'd say, let's go for it when
>> you're ready.
New version with those changes has been uploaded:
--8<---cut here---start->8---
wget="wget -rxnH --cut-dirs=2 http://cygwin.stromeko.net/noarch/release"
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 06:09:22PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> Other than that, it looks good to me. I'd say, let's go for it when
>> you're ready.
>
>I still need to wait for Chuck to create an inetutils package without
>/etc/defaults/etc/shells. Then we'll probably ne
Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> --8<---cut here---start->8---
>> wget="wget -rxnH --cut-dirs=2 http://cygwin.stromeko.net/noarch/release";
>> ${wget}/base-files/base-files/base-files-4.1-3.tar.xz
> ^
> There's one "base-files" too
Hi Achim,
On Mar 15 18:45, Achim Gratz wrote:
>
> Since the current maintainer David Le Sastre Medina seems to have gone
> missing, here's my attempt to wrap up the changes that were implemented
> after the 4.1-2 package was published as experimental (and then never
> released). The pertinent di
Since the current maintainer David Le Sastre Medina seems to have gone
missing, here's my attempt to wrap up the changes that were implemented
after the 4.1-2 package was published as experimental (and then never
released). The pertinent discussions on the Cygwin ML are listed in the
ChangeLog.
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:12:01AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Mar 12 07:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
> >> On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
> >> > Links to base-files-4.0-4:
> >> >
> >> > http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2
> >> > http://crapsteak.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:12:01AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mar 12 07:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
>> > Links to base-files-4.0-4:
>> >
>> > http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2
>> > http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/rel
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:12:01AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 12 07:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
> > Can versions before 3.9-3 be deleted?
If this is a question for me, I think they can be safely deleted now.
> > Keeper of the Gold Stars, plea
On 12 March 2011 09:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 12 07:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
>> > Links to base-files-4.0-4:
>> >
>> > http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2
>> > http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/b
On Mar 12 07:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
> > Links to base-files-4.0-4:
> >
> > http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2
> > http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2.sig
>
> Looks good to me. Uplo
On Mar 12 07:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
> > Links to base-files-4.0-4:
> >
> > http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2
> > http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2.sig
>
> Looks good to me. Uplo
On 11 March 2011 21:26, David Sastre wrote:
> Links to base-files-4.0-4:
>
> http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2
> http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2.sig
Looks good to me. Uploaded and cygwin-pkg-maint updated. Can versions
b
Hello,
Links to base-files-4.0-4:
http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2
http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-4.tar.bz2.sig
Thanks and regards.
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On 7 March 2011 13:05, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 6 March 2011 17:19, David Sastre wrote:
>>> - Not that it makes a great difference, but I think the interactive
>>> checks should be done before sourcing /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc
>>> from /etc/profile and ~/.profile, respectively, rather than doin
On 6 March 2011 17:19, David Sastre > - Not that it makes a great difference, but I think the interactive
>> checks should be done before sourcing /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc
>> from /etc/profile and ~/.profile, respectively, rather than doing it
>> in the rc files. That would save opening the r
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 07:07:18AM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 5 March 2011 17:03, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Actually I had already downloaded this anyway. Looks great, only two
> suggestions:
>
> - Not that it makes a great difference, but I think the interactive
> checks should be done before sourci
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 05:03:37PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> The problem appears to be back:
> Sorry for not getting round to this sooner.
Hello Andy,
It should be alive again. Thanks for checking.
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On 5 March 2011 17:03, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> Weird. I checked it out early this morning. Sometimes it doesn't work
>> for me either due to dyndns (or my router's ddclient client, I can't
>> tell for sure) not refreshing properly.
>>
>> (...calls home and requests a whatsmyip query...)
>>
>> OK. I've
On 24 February 2011 10:14, David Sastre wrote:
> 2011/2/24, Corinna Vinschen:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> On Feb 23 19:02, David Sastre wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I think the links to the latest revision got lost in the replies to
>>> my question about privileged users.
>>> In the meantime, the domain I was
> New discussion or subject: new thread. Please.
Has anyone ever tried to port KDE to Cygwin?
(ducks)
I have a request, David.
Next time you have a new version of base-files to upload, please start a
NEW thread. And give it a title like [RFU] base-files or something.
The current thread started in Sept2010, with new threads (which were
inexplicably simply started as replies to the final message i
On Feb 24 11:14, David Sastre wrote:
> 2011/2/24, Corinna Vinschen:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > On Feb 23 19:02, David Sastre wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I think the links to the latest revision got lost in the replies to
> >> my question about privileged users.
> >> In the meantime, the domain I was us
2011/2/24, Corinna Vinschen:
> Hi David,
>
> On Feb 23 19:02, David Sastre wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I think the links to the latest revision got lost in the replies to
>> my question about privileged users.
>> In the meantime, the domain I was using expired. These are the
>> valid links now:
>>
>> ht
Hi David,
On Feb 23 19:02, David Sastre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think the links to the latest revision got lost in the replies to
> my question about privileged users.
> In the meantime, the domain I was using expired. These are the
> valid links now:
>
> http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-
Hello,
I think the links to the latest revision got lost in the replies to
my question about privileged users.
In the meantime, the domain I was using expired. These are the
valid links now:
http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-3.tar.bz2
http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/relea
On Feb 9 10:42, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 2/6/2011 4:40 PM, David Sastre wrote:
> > I have a question yet: is there a consistent way of knowing
> > the GID of users with administrative privileges (from a windows
> > perspective) so that could be used to add /usr/sbin to their paths?
>
> AFAIK,
On 2/6/2011 4:40 PM, David Sastre wrote:
> I have a question yet: is there a consistent way of knowing
> the GID of users with administrative privileges (from a windows
> perspective) so that could be used to add /usr/sbin to their paths?
AFAIK, this requires Win32 C code. Take a look at the cod
Hello,
I have corrected some stuff in the /etc/profile reported offlist by
Cyrille Lefevre and a pair of little annoyances (e.g. hostname
was not referenced by its full path).
I have a question yet: is there a consistent way of knowing
the GID of users with administrative privileges (from a wind
On Jan 12 08:06, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 11 January 2011 12:01, David Sastre wrote:
> >>> Also, I'd appreciate opinions regarding the guard-like tests in some
> >>> config files, namely /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile
> >>> and ~/.bashrc. I'm not very convinced about including them.
On 11 January 2011 12:01, David Sastre wrote:
>>> Also, I'd appreciate opinions regarding the guard-like tests in some
>>> config files, namely /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile
>>> and ~/.bashrc. I'm not very convinced about including them.
>>
>> Why do we need them? I don't see equ
2011/1/11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 10 19:40, David Sastre wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 06:08:06PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > On Jan 6 17:04, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> > > > New package available at:
>> > > http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-2.t
On Jan 10 19:40, David Sastre wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 06:08:06PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jan 6 17:04, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > > New package available at:
> > > http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-2.tar.bz2
> > > http://www.eco-lution.tv/cyg
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 06:08:06PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 6 17:04, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > New package available at:
> > http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-2.tar.bz2
> > http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-2.tar.bz2
On Jan 6 17:04, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > New package available at:
> >
> > http://www-eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-file-4.0-2.tar.bz2
> > http://www-eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-file-4.0-2.tar.bz2.sig
>
> http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-f
> New package available at:
>
> http://www-eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-file-4.0-2.tar.bz2
> http://www-eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-file-4.0-2.tar.bz2.sig
http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-2.tar.bz2
http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/r
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 05:20:14PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 14 December 2010 20:41, David Sastre wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:50:32AM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > I'll try selective sourcing from /etc/profile e.g. bash sources
> > *sh, and not *.zsh, and viceversa.
Done.
> On a rela
On 14 December 2010 20:41, David Sastre wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:50:32AM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> Speaking of /etc/profile.d, it seems wrong to do that from
>> /etc/bash.bashrc. The name of the directory suggests that its content
>> is for login shells only.
>
> Absolutely. I'll try s
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:50:32AM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 10 December 2010 00:05, David Sastre wrote:
>
> Speaking of /etc/profile.d, it seems wrong to do that from
> /etc/bash.bashrc. The name of the directory suggests that its content
> is for login shells only.
Absolutely. I'll try sele
On 10 December 2010 00:05, David Sastre wrote:
> I fail to see how any customised setup would end up broken.
> The skeletal files are copied to the user's $HOME only if $HOME
> doesn't exist and they are never overwritten nor updated; the installation of
> a new base-files package places its defaul
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 01:05:44AM +0100, David Sastre wrote:
> And given that critical files will be detected as modified (even if
> they are not) because of the cmp line in preremove, existing files
> remain untouched and new files end up in /etc/default/etc.
Scratch that. Preremove can't do tha
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:59:32AM -0800, Karl M wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:04:39 +
> > From: andy
> > On 9 December 2010 06:29, David Sastre wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:21:38PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > >> On 8 December 2010 21:22, David Sastre wrote:
> > >> > I have de
Hi All...
> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:04:39 +
> Subject: Re: [ITA] - base-files
> From: andy
> On 9 December 2010 06:29, David Sastre wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:21:38PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> >> On 8 December 2010 21:22, David Sastre wrote:
> >
On 9 December 2010 06:29, David Sastre wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:21:38PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 8 December 2010 21:22, David Sastre wrote:
>> > I have decided to pull out of /etc/profile the case switch that tries
>> > to detect the shell and sets PS1 (and HOSTNAME) accordingly.
>
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:21:38PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 8 December 2010 21:22, David Sastre wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a base-files-4.0-1 package ready to receive testing. You can fetch it
> > from this URL:
> >
> I'm afraid there's a syntax error in /etc/profile though:
>
> elif [
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:21:38PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 8 December 2010 21:22, David Sastre wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a base-files-4.0-1 package ready to receive testing. You can fetch it
>
> I'm afraid there's a syntax error in /etc/profile though:
>
> elif [ ! -O "$HOME" -a "${H
On 8 December 2010 21:22, David Sastre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a base-files-4.0-1 package ready to receive testing. You can fetch it
> from this URL:
>
> http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-1.tar.bz2
> http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.
Hi David,
I've not had chance to install this but I have pulled and taken a look.
May I be (amongst) the first to thank you for the work you've put into
this.
Regards,
John.
Hello,
I have a base-files-4.0-1 package ready to receive testing. You can fetch it
from this URL:
http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-1.tar.bz2
http://www.eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-1.tar.bz2.sig
md5sums:
ff8000e0c128c9a7732d17c5eaace129
On 17 September 2010 21:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 17 21:23, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 17 September 2010 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >> 5 As stated in the referenced thread, there is no way to prevent attackers
>> >> to create a user's home dir before she/he logins the first time othe
On Sep 17 21:23, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 17 September 2010 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> 5 As stated in the referenced thread, there is no way to prevent attackers
> >> to create a user's home dir before she/he logins the first time other than
> >> disallowing anyone but the Administrator to d
On 17 September 2010 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> 5 As stated in the referenced thread, there is no way to prevent attackers
>> to create a user's home dir before she/he logins the first time other than
>> disallowing anyone but the Administrator to do that.
>> If the proposed workaround (issu
On Sep 17 18:47, David Sastre wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:50:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > What's wrong with the proposed patch? The only problem I have with it
> > is the fact that it uses tr and sed to find out what shell it's running
> > in. There is probably a way to do this
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:50:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 17 13:59, David Sastre wrote:
> >
> > Regarding the ITA of these packages, and the proposed patches, I have
> > some thoughts to share and discuss before I repackage them.
> >
> > 2 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg0
On Sep 17 13:59, David Sastre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Regarding the ITA of these packages, and the proposed patches, I have
> some thoughts to share and discuss before I repackage them.
>
> 1 http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00521.html
> case sensitivity of system32 dir (win7 and vista)
>
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:59:32PM +0200, David Sastre wrote:
>4 Can we consider this? what are the circular dependencies in that scenario?
>AFAICT, including base-passwd in base-files, and afterwards dropping
>base-passwd dependencies anywhere else should be harmless.
Unless Corinna disagrees, I'
Hello,
Regarding the ITA of these packages, and the proposed patches, I have
some thoughts to share and discuss before I repackage them.
1 http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00521.html
case sensitivity of system32 dir (win7 and vista)
2 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00503.html
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