Re: Cygwin installation issues with Powerbroker

2017-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Akshay Belle writes: > I am trying to use cygwin on my office laptop, which as a software > called powerbroker that provide admin privileges for installation of > third party software like cygwin. Powerbroker has worked well with all > other software installations, however cygwin is not installing

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] mpfr-3.1.5-1p2

2017-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
The MPFR Library The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding (also called correct rounding). It is based on the GMP multiple-precision library. The main goal of MPFR is to provide a library for multiple-precision floatin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated/New] Perl distributions

2017-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have either been updated to their latest version available from CPAN or added to Cygwin as a build or runtime dependency for other Perl distributions: x86/x86_64 -- perl-Clone-0.39-1 perl-List-MoreUtils-0.419-1 perl-Sub-Identify-0.13-1 perl-YAML-LibYAML-0.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Test] perl-5.24.1-1

2017-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
A test version of Perl version 5.24.1-1 is available on Cygwin. This is the first upstream maintenance release for Perl 5.24. Note This release is intended primarily for Cygwin package maintainers to check compatibility and eventually build package updates in preparation of a general releas

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] _autorebase-001005-1

2017-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
The _autorebase package has been updated to avoid rebasing flexdll libraries for OCaml that are not rebaseable. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: flex-2.6.3-1

2017-04-08 Thread Steven Penny
On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 19:25:05, Marco Atzeri wrote: Version 2.6.3-1 of flex for cygwin 32bit and 64bit have been uploaded. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00081.html This new version is causing some problems: http://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1386 Rolling back to 2.6.1 fixes

Re: how to make sshd start a shell other than bash when I log in?

2017-04-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 2017-04-06 20:08, L A Walsh wrote: > > Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> But when I log into that same host by sshd, bash starts... > > Have you tried changing your shell > > (chsh if it is on your system, otherwise edit /etc/passwd > > and change the shell for your username). > > andrews:x:1001:545

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: flex-2.6.3-1

2017-04-08 Thread Steven Penny
On Sat, 08 Apr 2017 15:01:57, Steven Penny wrote: This new version is causing some problems: http://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1386 Looks like this will be fixed with 2.6.4: http://github.com/westes/flex/issues/162 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: how to make sshd start a shell other than bash when I log in?

2017-04-08 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-04-08 17:22, Andrew Schulman wrote: > It turns out that setting SHELL in ~/.ssh/environment doesn't work, > nor does setting it in the key command. But setting > command="/usr/bin/fish --login" ssh-rsa ... > in authorized_keys does work. Thanks for figuring this out -- it's a keeper! --