> -Original Message-
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:58 AM
> >Well it shouldn't. There is definitely something wrong with
> setup and
> >downloads at the moment, but I haven't tracked it down yet.
>
> What about the "this pa
Robert Collins wrote:
> sitecopy is worth a look as a mirroring tool..
Sitecopy is intended for keeping a remote site in sync with the local
master version (e.g. uploading your personal website to a server on
which you have ftp access). It's isn't great for keeping a local mirror
of a remot
sitecopy is worth a look as a mirroring tool..
Rob
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:42:04PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Oooo, NOW I get it. I didn't understand that "verpat:" was a new
>field in setup.hint, PARSED by upset. It's perfectly clear in hindsight.
That's probably because, on rereading, my description didn't make that
clear.
>Neverm
Oooo, NOW I get it. I didn't understand that "verpat:" was a new
field in setup.hint, PARSED by upset. It's perfectly clear in hindsight.
Nevermind my earlier comments. Time for some sleep.
--Chuck
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:24:18PM -0400, Charles Wilson wr
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:24:18PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>Btw, I'm adding a new feature to upset:
>>
>>verpat: (.*-\d+dpi)(.*)(\.tar.bz2)
>> ^^ ^^ ^
>> $1 $2 $3
>>
>>$1 = prefix
>>$2 = version
>>$3 = suffix
>>
>>That won't help setup.ini-less in
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:01:30PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>>Okay -- I'll upload it once I get home. (Especially as Chris is
>>advocating that the xfree folks use '_' in the names of their font
>>packages, as a NONseparator --- it's that '_' which causes the
> -Original Message-
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:13 PM
>
> That won't help setup.ini-less installs much but, er...
... who cares?
Lol,
Rob
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:13:33PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>>From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>I also have a friend who's working on and off on a web based
>>install, fwiw.
>
>Is this to supplant/work with setup.exe, or is it unrelated?
It's unrelated. It was an exerci
> -Original Message-
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:44 AM
> I also have a friend who's working on and off on a web based
> install, fwiw.
Is this to supplant/work with setup.exe, or is it unrelated? I'd look at
wrapping setu
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:01:30PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Okay -- I'll upload it once I get home. (Especially as Chris is
>advocating that the xfree folks use '_' in the names of their font
>packages, as a NONseparator --- it's that '_' which causes the
>incompatibility with the old set
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:53:17PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>Once that box is deployed we should have some excess capacity for things
>>like rsync and maybe we can even allow downloads from
>>sources.redhat.com again.
>
>But I thought the problem with sourceware has been (a) processing load
Robert Collins wrote:
>2) update bzip2 to the latest release -- which involves the grand
>library split thing (bzip2 -> bzip2 + libbz2_0).
>
>>However, the name
>>
>"libbz2_0" is incompatible with the old setup, and even
>
>>'cygcheck -c'
>>
>gets confused prior to t
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>Regardless, I'm with Robert. setup was never designed to be a mirroring
>>>tool or a site deployment tool. If people are relying on a particular
>>>directory arrangement then, er, tough...
>>>
>>Agreed. I have a pretty clever (IMHO; although, being based on wget it
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:40:06PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >Ooh, that's kinda cool. The "C" kinda looks like a staple though, maybe a
> >little less pointiness.
>
> Do you want to edit it? I doubt that the author (artist?) would mind.
>
> Maybe rounding the corners would help.
Well
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:40:06PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>Ooh, that's kinda cool. The "C" kinda looks like a staple though, maybe a
>little less pointiness.
Do you want to edit it? I doubt that the author (artist?) would mind.
Maybe rounding the corners would help.
cgf
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:31:17PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>The only thing I can think of to do is to get rid of latest/contrib and
>>move to something else, like 'release', with all of the current
>>directories located underneath.
>
>You mean like:
> cygwin/lates
>>Could you maybe put it back and just randomly display it? I kind of
> >>like the whimsy of such a thing.
> >
> >Whaddaya think's going in the big white box?
>
> Some part of this:
>
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/logo-ideas/mclean-20020221-0940.png
>
> maybe?
>
> I like the cygwin C > par
>>Could you maybe put it back and just randomly display it? I kind of
>>like the whimsy of such a thing.
>
>Whaddaya think's going in the big white box?
Some part of this:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/logo-ideas/mclean-20020221-0940.png
maybe?
I like the cygwin C > part.
cgf
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:05:19AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>>>But those are social problems, not technical ones.
>>>
>>And ones I have little sympathy for. Setup is a technical tool, not a
>>social one. It's not aimed at being the best downloader, only the best
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:16:32PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >>>Well it shouldn't. There is definitely something wrong with setup and
> >>>downloads at the moment, but I haven't tracked it down yet.
> >>
> >>What about the "this page intentionally left blank" report? Is that on
> >>yo
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:16:32PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>>Well it shouldn't. There is definitely something wrong with setup and
>>>downloads at the moment, but I haven't tracked it down yet.
>>
>>What about the "this page intentionally left blank" report? Is that on
>>your list?
>
>
> >Well it shouldn't. There is definitely something wrong with setup and
> >downloads at the moment, but I haven't tracked it down yet.
>
> What about the "this page intentionally left blank" report? Is that
> on your list?
>
My patch of ~ a week ago puts that one out of our misery permanently
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:53:28AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:10 AM
>
>> The only thing I can think of to do is to get rid of
>> latest/contrib and move to something else,
> -Original Message-
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:10 AM
> The only thing I can think of to do is to get rid of
> latest/contrib and move to something else, like 'release',
> with all of the current directories located unde
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:05:19AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> But those are social problems, not technical ones.
>
>And ones I have little sympathy for. Setup is a technical tool, not a
>social one. It's not aimed at being the best downloader, only the best
>installer. Mirroring that handles
> Okay, it's been a week -- and nobody seems to have noticed. That's
> promising. So, I'll go out on a limb here, and predict that cgf's
> massive reorg of the sourceware/cygwin dir structure won't
> upset setup
> (no pun intended).
Urrgh.
> However, it may upset people who are anal
> a
Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> 1) move gettext from the contrib directory to the latest directory --
>>> and see if anybody barfs.
>
> I did this. It's been many moons and many point releases (and a major
> release) since the last time we moved a package directory (ncurses, I
> think) from contr
For lack of any response,
Charles Wilson wrote:
> Okay, how about now?
>
> --Chuck
>
>
> Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> there were two things I was going to do:
>>
>> 1) move gettext from the contrib directory to the latest directory --
>> and see if anybody barfs.
I did this. It's been many
Okay, how about now?
--Chuck
Charles Wilson wrote:
> there were two things I was going to do:
>
> 1) move gettext from the contrib directory to the latest directory --
> and see if anybody barfs.
>
> 2) update bzip2 to the latest release -- which involves the grand
> library split thing (b
Robert Collins wrote:
> Holdoff please Chuck,
> cgf's forwarded post here indicates that there is still at least
> one serious bug in 2.194...
Holding off...Roger Wilco.
--Chuck
Holdoff please Chuck,
cgf's forwarded post here indicates that there is still at least
one serious bug in 2.194...
Rob
> -Original Message-
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:03 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Now that the n
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