Re: pdfseparate does nothing for me?

2016-11-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-11-15 13:21, Ian Lambert wrote: I try to stay up to date, but it is difficult because setup would not accept network proxy settings the last time I tried, so I'm using apt-cyg download and setup local installs as a workaround, and this does not always get me the latest versions of packag

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-11-17 23:10, OwN-3m-All wrote: See, this happens with the mirror I've provided in the setup (only sometimes... sometimes it works): https://s17.postimg.org/6xuvfaljz/setup_issue.png The setup log only contains this: Starting cygwin install, version 2.876 User has backup/restore rights

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, OwN-3m-All! > See, this happens with the mirror I've provided in the setup (only > sometimes... sometimes it works): > https://s17.postimg.org/6xuvfaljz/setup_issue.png > The setup log only contains this: > Starting cygwin install, version 2.876 > User has backup/restore rights > io_

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, OwN-3m-All! >> Setup gets its list from: https://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst > Thanks. > I'm guessing the installer only shows a few of them though instead of > all of them? It shows all of them. It's not like there's millions of them. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, Novembe

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, OwN-3m-All! >> Just specify the mirror by hands. >> If it doesn't work for some reason, find that reason and eliminate it. > That's really not a good solution. I don't have control over the > mirrors or would know why one isn't working. But you have control over the script that worki

[ANNOUNCEMENT] taglib 1.11.1-1

2016-11-17 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libtag1-1.11.1-1 * libtag-devel-1.11.1-1 * libtag_c0-1.11.1-1 * libtag_c-devel-1.11.1-1 * mingw64-i686-taglib-1.11.1-1 * mingw64-x86_64-taglib-1.11.1-1 TagLib is a library for reading and editing the meta-data of several pop

[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygport 0.23.0-1

2016-11-17 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cygport-0.23.0-1 cygport is the standard method for building and maintaining packages for the Cygwin distribution. Changes in this release: Jon Turney (1): Write and upload pvr.hint rather than setup.hint Ken Brown

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread OwN-3m-All
See, this happens with the mirror I've provided in the setup (only sometimes... sometimes it works): https://s17.postimg.org/6xuvfaljz/setup_issue.png The setup log only contains this: Starting cygwin install, version 2.876 User has backup/restore rights io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/setup

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread OwN-3m-All
> Setup gets its list from: https://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst Thanks. I'm guessing the installer only shows a few of them though instead of all of them? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-11-17 21:06, OwN-3m-All wrote: Just specify the mirror by hands. If it doesn't work for some reason, find that reason and eliminate it. That's really not a good solution. I don't have control over the mirrors or would know why one isn't working. I think a new command-line argument sho

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread OwN-3m-All
> Just specify the mirror by hands. > If it doesn't work for some reason, find that reason and eliminate it. That's really not a good solution. I don't have control over the mirrors or would know why one isn't working. I think a new command-line argument should be added that makes Cygwin setup p

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Various background wallpapers

2016-11-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-11-17 20:25, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2016-11-17 01:10, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: Setup on W10 + AU + last Patch Tuesday updates and Canadian English locale, for Cygwin64 latest with locale en_CA.UTF-8. Three problems

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Various background wallpapers

2016-11-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-11-17 01:10, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: Setup on W10 + AU + last Patch Tuesday updates and Canadian English locale, for Cygwin64 latest with locale en_CA.UTF-8. Three problems with one set of wallpaper symlinks in each

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, OwN-3m-All! > I'm trying to automate this as best as possible, and the only way to > do so right now is to specify the mirror the setup utility uses by > using something similar to: > setup-x86_64.exe --site "http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/"; > --quiet-mode --root "C:\dir" --local-p

Re: Issue with 'cpan' program

2016-11-17 Thread David Christensen
On 11/17/2016 11:53 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > David Christensen writes: >> Today, I did a fresh install of Cygwin 64-bit on a recently built (and >> fully updated) Windows 7 Professional 64-bit computer. ... >> When I run the command: >> >> cpan local::lib >> >> One core goes to 100% and the pro

Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread OwN-3m-All
Hi All, Is there a way to have the Cygwin setup utility pick a valid mirror automatically from the list it downloads if the setup is run with the following options: setup-x86_64.exe --quiet-mode --root "C:\dir" --local-package-dir "C:\dir\cygTemp" --packages "apache2" If I run the setup utility

Re: CYGWIN_NOWINPATH (was Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH)

2016-11-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Francis Litterio! >>> I set CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 in my user environment variables, i.e. in >>> registry, not in a cmd shell. I expect it needs to be seen when the >>> first cygwin1.dll instance starts, so you would need to stop all >>> cygwin processes and servers, just like you do when y

Re: Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me?

2016-11-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Ian Lambert writes: > Of course that has been tried and it does not work. It eventually pops > up "unable to get setup from [ok]". So does "use HTTP/FTP > Proxy" (with only host and port entry available), and "Direct > Connection". Well, if you're connected through a proxy, then of course "direct

Re: Issue with 'cpan' program

2016-11-17 Thread Achim Gratz
David Christensen writes: > Today, I did a fresh install of Cygwin 64-bit on a recently built (and > fully updated) Windows 7 Professional 64-bit computer. Sorry for the late answer. > When I run the command: > > cpan local::lib > > One core goes to 100% and the program hangs indefinitely. >

Re: CYGWIN_NOWINPATH (was Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH)

2016-11-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 12:11, Vince Rice wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Francis Litterio wrote: > > > > On 9/8/2016 8:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Sep 5 10:36, Doug Henderson wrote: > > > >>> I set CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 in my user environment variables, i.e. in > >>> registry, not in a cmd

Re: CYGWIN_NOWINPATH (was Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH)

2016-11-17 Thread Vince Rice
> On Nov 17, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Francis Litterio wrote: > > On 9/8/2016 8:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Sep 5 10:36, Doug Henderson wrote: > >>> I set CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 in my user environment variables, i.e. in >>> registry, not in a cmd shell. I expect it needs to be seen when the >>>

Re: CYGWIN_NOWINPATH (was Re: /etc/profile: avoid multiple /usr/bin in PATH)

2016-11-17 Thread Francis Litterio
On 9/8/2016 8:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 5 10:36, Doug Henderson wrote: I set CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 in my user environment variables, i.e. in registry, not in a cmd shell. I expect it needs to be seen when the first cygwin1.dll instance starts, so you would need to stop all cygwin pro

Re: Retrieving per-process environment block?

2016-11-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 14:30, Erik Bray wrote: > Hi all, > > For a quick bit of background, I'm working on porting the highly > useful psutil [1] Python library to Cygwin. This has proved an > interesting exercise, as much of the functionality of psutil works on > Cygwin through existing POSIX interfaces, and

Retrieving per-process environment block?

2016-11-17 Thread Erik Bray
Hi all, For a quick bit of background, I'm working on porting the highly useful psutil [1] Python library to Cygwin. This has proved an interesting exercise, as much of the functionality of psutil works on Cygwin through existing POSIX interfaces, and a handful of Linux-specific interfaces as wel

Re: TortoiseGit + Cygwin git: unified diff fails (cygheap read copy failed)

2016-11-17 Thread Gene Pavlovsky
>> I'm using TortoiseGit with Cygwin git (Cygwin workarounds enabled in >> advanced TortoiseGit settings). For the most part, everything works >> correctly. > > Although this is probably unrelated, I've had problems with > TortoiseSVN and Cygwin's svn (not Git), because Tortoise uses DOS line > end

Re: TortoiseGit + Cygwin git: unified diff fails (cygheap read copy failed)

2016-11-17 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi Gene, On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:42 AM, Gene Pavlovsky wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I'm using TortoiseGit with Cygwin git (Cygwin workarounds enabled in > advanced TortoiseGit settings). For the most part, everything works > correctly. Although this is probably unrelated, I've had problems with

[ANNOUNCEMENT] overpass-fonts 3.0-1

2016-11-17 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * overpass-fonts-3.0-1 Free and open source typeface based on the U.S. interstate highway road signage type system. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Various background wallpapers

2016-11-17 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * beefy-miracle-backgrounds-16.91.0-1 * constantine-backgrounds-12.1.1-1 * constantine-backgrounds-extras-12.1.1-1 * desktop-backgrounds-basic-15-1 * desktop-backgrounds-waves-0.1.2-1 * f21-backgrounds-21.1.0-1 * f21-background