Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Adam Dinwoodie writes: >> No debuginfo package seems to be generated, but otherwise looks good. > > I was mildly surprised by that, too. I'm used to cygport just magically > making that work, and I'm not sure where to even begin looking at > resolving the lack of debuginfo. You'll usually find so

Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-22 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Monday 20 November 2017 at 05:19 pm +, Jon Turney wrote: > On 15/11/2017 13:10, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > >I'm looking to package moreutils, a collection of small Linux utilities. > >It is already included in Debian and Ubuntu (amongst others), and is > >released under GPLv2. > > > >Proposed C

Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-20 Thread Jon Turney
On 16/11/2017 15:08, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 08:52 pm +, Tony Kelman wrote: -   parallel: run multiple jobs at once I'm guessing setup-*.exe doesn't have the ability to detect and handle this sort of conflict, but I can see a bunch of alternative options: -

Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-20 Thread Jon Turney
On 15/11/2017 13:10, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: I'm looking to package moreutils, a collection of small Linux utilities. It is already included in Debian and Ubuntu (amongst others), and is released under GPLv2. Proposed Cygwin packaging: https://tastycake.net/~adam/cygwin/ No debuginfo package seem

Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-16 Thread Achim Gratz
David Stacey writes: >> It looks like both OS X's Homebrew and Debian's Apt deal with this by >> just having the packages conflict. > > Several other distros do likewise: Fedora / CentOS, openSUSE, > Slackware, Ubuntu. These all have package managers that will tell you about the conflict when you

Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: > last time I looked on building GNU parallel for cygwin > I was not impressed, so an ITP seems to me unlikely It would already be in Cygwin if it didn't need a patch that is unlikely to be accepted upstream in order to deal with file systems that don't correctly show the numb

Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Adam Dinwoodie writes: > I'm guessing setup-*.exe doesn't have the ability to detect and handle > this sort of conflict, but I can see a bunch of alternative options: It does not, at least nor currently. > - Rename moreutils parallel (e.g. `mparallel`) so it doesn't conflict. I'd rename it "mu

Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-16 Thread David Stacey
On 16/11/17 15:08, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 08:52 pm +, Tony Kelman wrote: -   parallel: run multiple jobs at once I'd be hesitatnt to package that since it directly clashes with GNU parallel (not available on Cygwin yet). Hmm.  I wasn't aware of GNU parallel,

Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-16 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 16/11/2017 16:08, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 08:52 pm +, Tony Kelman wrote: -   parallel: run multiple jobs at once I'd be hesitatnt to package that since it directly clashes with GNU parallel (not available on Cygwin yet). - Do nothing for now and de

Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-16 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 08:52 pm +, Tony Kelman wrote: > >> >> -   parallel: run multiple jobs at once > >> > >> I'd be hesitatnt to package that since it directly clashes with GNU > >> parallel (not available on Cygwin yet). > > > > Hmm.  I wasn't aware of GNU parallel, and I'm not su

Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-15 Thread Tony Kelman
>> >> -   parallel: run multiple jobs at once >> >> I'd be hesitatnt to package that since it directly clashes with GNU >> parallel (not available on Cygwin yet). > > Hmm.  I wasn't aware of GNU parallel, and I'm not sure how that sort of > problem is generally handled.  Possibly that could be brok

Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-15 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 07:31 pm +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: > Adam Dinwoodie writes: > > I'm looking to package moreutils, a collection of small Linux utilities. > > It is already included in Debian and Ubuntu (amongst others), and is > > released under GPLv2. > > This looks like a really

Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Adam Dinwoodie writes: > I'm looking to package moreutils, a collection of small Linux utilities. > It is already included in Debian and Ubuntu (amongst others), and is > released under GPLv2. This looks like a really mixed bag… Is there some more documentation somewhere on the web? >> - parall

[ITP] moreutils 0.61

2017-11-15 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
I'm looking to package moreutils, a collection of small Linux utilities. It is already included in Debian and Ubuntu (amongst others), and is released under GPLv2. Homepage: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ Debian package: https://packages.debian.org/sid/utils/moreutils Ubuntu package: https://p