Re: setup.exe crashes on cygwin package upgrade

2008-08-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
> setup.exe crashes when I try to upgrade cygwin to the newest version. > > When I try to run setup.exe, it verifies no newer version exists, downloads > the > list of mirrors, and lets me choose packages, automatically marking those with > newer versions available for an upgrade. So far, so good

Re: lftp missing dependency?

2008-08-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'm fiddling with some stuff that needs Cygwin for a customer on a > fairly pristine system, and thought I'd try to use lftp instead of being > stuck with 'doze ftp, however it gives error 128 when run. According to > cygcheck, it's missing libexpat, which seems to not be installed when > ins

Re: lftp missing dependency?

2008-09-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > Matthew Woehlke writes: > > > Cool, thanks! If we're lucky I'll even remember to check this some > > time :-) (it's on a VM that I only use for a particular project, > > besides that I hardly use Windows any more except for one or two apps > > that I need for work, so Cygwi

Re: New install of SSH on Windows XP. Inconsistent connectivity

2008-09-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> How can I view why the session is being rejected? I know that one. ssh -v ssh -vv ssh -vvv ... Keep adding -v's until you see the information you're looking for. A. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docum

Re: [1.7.0-29] can't create master tty

2008-09-11 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:55:54PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >I've recompiled screen for Cygwin 1.7. It runs fine until I do the > >following: > > > >* Open a cmd console and run c:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --login . > >* Start a new screen session (s

Re: [1.7] cygcheck totally broken

2008-09-11 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-29. cygcheck gives no useful output at all: > > $ cygcheck -srv > > Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics > Current System Time: Wed Aug 27 20:00:55 2008 > > > Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics > Current System Time: Wed Aug 27 20:00:55 2008 > > > Cygwin Configuration Di

Re: [1.7] cygcheck totally broken

2008-09-11 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Actually cygcheck from the 2008-09-11 snapshot reports: > > c:\>cygcheck --version > cygcheck version 1.104 > System Checker for Cygwin > Copyright (C) 1998 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc. > Compiled on Sep 11 2008 OK, sorry. I had a little mount confusion there. $ cygcheck --version cygcheck

Re: [1.7] cygcheck totally broken

2008-09-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Is it exactly 6 times? Yes, just as I posted it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

[1.7] bzr no work

2008-09-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
In Cygwin 1.7: $ bzr whoami Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/bzr", line 64, in import bzrlib File "__init__.py", line 25, in File "osutils.py", line 319, in File "lazy_import.py", line 106, in __getattribute__ File "lazy_import.py", line 89, in _replace File "la

Re: [1.7] cygcheck totally broken

2008-09-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-29. cygcheck gives no useful output at all: Fixed in 2008-09-12 snapshot. Thanks, Andrew. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp-3.7.3-2

2008-09-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp is available in the Cygwin distribution. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http client. It supports multiple network protocols, offers tab completion, command history, job control, and bookmarks, can mirror sites and transfer multiple files in parallel, a

Re: [1.7] bzr no work

2008-09-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> In Cygwin 1.7: > > $ bzr whoami > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/bzr", line 64, in > import bzrlib > File "__init__.py", line 25, in > File "osutils.py", line 319, in > File "lazy_import.py", line 106, in __getattribute__ > File "lazy_import.py", line 89, in

Re: [OT] polite response to polite response - Brian...

2008-09-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I was merely pointing out (subtly and repetitively) that > cygwin is an application layer on top of Windows. WOW! Are you sure? Wait a minute, let me check this out... OK, HE'S RIGHT! Christopher and Corinna, can we please bring this guy on as some kind of paid consultant? I think you migh

bzr throws IOError in randpool.py

2008-09-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
bzr 1.6.1-1, with Cygwin 1.5.25-15. $ bzr -Derror checkout sftp://... bzr: ERROR: exceptions.IOError: [Errno 0] Error Traceback (most recent call last): File "commands.py", line 857, in run_bzr_catch_errors File "commands.py", line 797, in run_bzr File "commands.py", line 499, in run_argv_a

Re: bzr throws IOError in randpool.py

2008-09-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Andrew Schulman wrote on 26 September 2008 17:17: > > > bzr 1.6.1-1, with Cygwin 1.5.25-15. > > > Since I'm not able to check out files, bzr is mainly broken for me at > > present. Any help would be appreciated, and I'll be glad to help > > troublesho

Re: bzr throws IOError in randpool.py - cygcheck-svr.out (0/1)

2008-09-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
Thought I'd attached this the first time. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bzr 1.7.1-1 -- Python based distributed version control

2008-10-28 Thread Andrew Schulman
Jari, bzr 1.7.1-1 in Cygwin 1.7 is still completely broken for me here: $ bzr whoami Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/bzr", line 93, in import bzrlib File "__init__.py", line 25, in File "osutils.py", line 319, in File "lazy_import.py", line 106, in __getattribute__

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bzr 1.7.1-1 -- Python based distributed version control

2008-11-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Jari, bzr 1.7.1-1 in Cygwin 1.7 is still completely broken for me here: > > $ bzr whoami > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/bzr", line 93, in > import bzrlib > File "__init__.py", line 25, in > File "osutils.py", line 319, in > File "lazy_import.py", line 106, i

Re: SSH dropping out

2008-11-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Is there a way, from within the same batch script used to make the SSH > connection, to send a packet of data, or something similar, every minute > so that the connection will be kept alive? Have a look at autossh, which does this and also restarts any ssh connection which is still alive but h

Re: Screen Documenation

2014-09-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
> David Eisner gmail.com> writes: > > Is this intentional, or am I missing something? Thanks. > > Looks like a packaging error for x86 (the x86_64 package is OK). Hm, sure enough. Sorry about that. Not sure what went wrong, but I'll get a new release out with the documentation. Andrew -- Pr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen 4.2.1-3 (x86 only)

2014-09-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of screen, 4.2.1-3, is available in Cygwin x86. This is a Cygwin-only release that reinstates the documentation files, including man and info pages, that somehow got left out of the previous release. Thanks to David Eisner for reporting the missing docs. screen is a full-screen win

Re: Screen Documenation

2014-09-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> By the way, the update also fixed a problem I was having (which was > why I wanted to RTFM): In the previous release (on x86, at least), the > info and window list output ("C-a i" and "C-a w" respectively) would > appear at the bottom of my mintty window, rather than in the title > bar. With 4.2.

emacs hangs on "Loading vc-git...done" (0/1)

2014-09-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
Cygwin 1.7.32-1, git 2.1.0-1, emacs 24.3-2. New problem, never seen before: I start emacs, press C-x C-f to load a file, enter the file name, press enter. Emacs hangs, and never returns. The status bar says: Loading vc-git...done I verified this in x86 and x86_64, and also with git 2.0.4-1.

emacs hangs on "Loading vc-git...done" (1/1)

2014-09-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
.emacs. Description: Binary data Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Sep 05 21:37:16 2014 Windows 7 Professional Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 Path: C:\Users\andrex\Home\usr\win\bin C:\Users\andrex\Home\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin64\usr\local\bin

Re: emacs hangs on "Loading vc-git...done" (0/1)

2014-09-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 09/05/2014 03:18 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Cygwin 1.7.32-1, git 2.1.0-1, emacs 24.3-2. New problem, never seen > > before: > > > > I start emacs, press C-x C-f to load a file, enter the file name, press > > enter. Emacs hangs, and ne

Re: Problems with lftp exclude

2014-09-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I’m running lftp (4.4.4) under cygwin on my Windows 8 machine. I’ve created > an lftptest directory on my server with two subdirs, dir1 and dir2, with a > file in each.  No matter what I try, I can't exclude "dir1" with an lftp > script that contains this exclude – I get the directory and all of

Re: Problems with lftp exclude

2014-09-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Sorry, no. This seems unlikely to be a Cygwin-specific problem, so I think > you're most likely to find the answer on the lftp mailing list. Alexander > Lukyanov, the developer of lftp, often answers questions there. Andrew See http://lftp.yar.ru/list.html, or gmane.network.lftp.user on gmane

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel-5.03-1

2014-09-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 5.03-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with assorted minor updates and bug fixes. You can read the upstream changelog at https://www.stunnel.org/sdf_ChangeLog.html. stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP con

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autossh 1.4d-1

2014-09-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of autossh, 1.4d-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with bug fixes: * Fixes file descriptor issues when started without standard input available (for example, in system initialization scripts) autossh is a program to start an instance of ssh

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp 4.5.5-1

2014-09-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 4.5.5-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with bug fixes. Please see http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html for the list of changes. This release removes the dependency of lftp on perl. lftp comes with a few sample scripts that are written in

Re: Packages up for adoption [GOLD STAR]

2014-09-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 13:44 -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > > I haven't used Cygwin for quite some time and unfortunately I don't > > think I'll have the time to maintain the packages that I currently > > look after. As such I'm looking for any volunteers to take over > > maintainership of the f

fish PATH problem

2014-10-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
When I try to start fish directly from the Windows shell instead of from bash, I get a boatload of errors, like this: === /usr/share/fish/functions/type.fish (line 14): if not getopt -T > /dev/null ^ in function 'type', called

fish prompt oddity

2014-10-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
In fish, I like to set the prompt to print a blank line before the prompt text. No problem: I just add an "echo" statement at the beginning of the fish_prompt function. In fish in Linux that works fine: === andrex@helium ~> pwd /home/andrex andrex@helium ~> === But in Cygwin, it has a stran

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Wednesday, October 08, 2014 05:13:54 AM Andrew Schulman wrote: > > When I try to start fish directly from the Windows shell instead of from > > bash, I get a boatload of errors, like this: > > I suggest you to read fish manual page, and find how to invoke fish as login

Re: fish prompt oddity

2014-10-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> In fish, I like to set the prompt to print a blank line before the prompt > text. No > problem: I just add an "echo" statement at the beginning of the fish_prompt > function. In fish in Linux that works fine: > > === > andrex@helium ~> pwd > /home/andrex > > andrex@helium ~> > === > > But

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 08/10/2014 18:36, Alive4Ever wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 08, 2014 11:08:43 AM you wrote: > >> Does that work. It seemed to have the same issue as noted in the > >> following thread https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00111.html > >> > > It should work, although I don't recommend runni

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Greetings, Andrew Schulman! > > >> Andrew: appreciated if you can confirm whether simply invoking as a > >> login shell works for you. > > > It sort of works. When I change my shell to /usr/bin/fish in /etc/passwd > > and run > > > C:\cygwin

Re: fish PATH problem [ping Konrad]

2014-10-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> So I just re-tested starting a fish login shell after updating cygwin64. > As I suspected, fish has not been updated since the thread I quoted (Apr > 2014), and the issue remains (with my install). Google doesn't show the > maintainer on list since the announcement (Oct 2013), and his e-mail

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 09/10/2014 18:26, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Andrew Schulman! > > > >> Bad news: the PATH problem is back. When I run > >> C:\cygwin64\bin\fish.exe -l > >> I get the same error messages as before on startup, and PATH doesn't > >

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 08/10/2014 17:08, Dave Kilroy wrote: > > On 08/10/2014 10:57, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >>> On Wednesday, October 08, 2014 05:13:54 AM Andrew Schulman wrote: > >>>> When I try to start fish directly from the Windows shell instead of > >>>>

Re: Running a program in Cygwin that was compiled in Linux

2014-10-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I have installed Cygwin 1.7 on my Win 7 machine. > I have a set of programs that were compiled > on a Linux machine using the G77 fortran compiler. > These programs will not compile with the > Gfortran compiler that comes with Cygwin 1.7. > Can I just copy the compiled objects over to my

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp 4.5.6-1

2014-10-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 4.5.6-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release with bug fixes. The full changelog is at http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http/bittorrent client. It supports multiple network protocols. It

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel 5.06-1 [SECURITY]

2014-10-18 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 5.06-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release. This is a security update of stunnel, mainly AFAICT because it now disables SSLv2 and SSLv3 by default. Please read the annnouncement at http://www.stunnel.org/sdf_ChangeLog.html. Note thou

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fish-2.1.1-3 [SECURITY]

2014-10-18 Thread Andrew Schulman
The fish package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. New in this release: * Multiple security fixes. See the release notes for version 2.1.1 at http://fishshell.com/release_notes.html . * Add system directories to PATH. fish now runs correctly as the user's default login shell. * Sour

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bc-1.06.95-2

2014-10-18 Thread Andrew Schulman
The bc package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. This is a minor update, a Cygwin point release, that includes the latest patches from upstream, "latest" meaning mostly 3 years ago or more. bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. Syntax is similar to C, but differs in

Re: cygcheck -s segfaults in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Instead, I found that COMSPEC needs to be set in the environment or I get a > segfault as shown in my previous email below. I don't know why that is, > but I can easily demonstrate it. Confirmed here. I had actually already seen this segfault too, but I hadn't figured out it was caused by em

Re: Fwd: keychain 2.7.1 and fish-2.1.1-3 incompatibility

2014-10-22 Thread Andrew Schulman
> The current Cygwin version of keychain (2.7.1) apparently requires a > patch to use alongside newer versions of the FISH shell. > > This was already fixed upstream: > > https://github.com/funtoo/keychain/commit/b73fc50ba27fb5f62864ee097f9d118ac6e0fba6 > > This patch was included in the keychai

Re: run.exe flashes non-hidden console window in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > Have you tried changing the shortcut to cause it to open the window > > minimized? I vaguely remember doing something like that with the > > cygwin.bat clone I used to start a (non-X windows) rxvt window. > > That may at least alleviate the window flashing in the face of a user. Yeah, that do

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: windows-default-manifest-6.4-1

2014-10-25 Thread Andrew Schulman
> This package contains nothing but a default application compatibility > manifest, which gets linked in by GCC by default, and which is supposed > to claim compatibility with the latest Windows versions available at the > time. > > Adding such a manifest got necessary due to a change in Windows 8

Re: Fish 2.1.0 aborted

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Sorry, I tried but I couldn't repeat this crash of fish, when I tried it > today for the first time. But the diagnostic output from fish was > reasonable, so it may help. Thanks for reporting. fish 2.1.1 is available in setup, and I recommend that you upgrade. It has about a year of bug f

Re: [GOLDSTARS] Re: Threads

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Absolutely. Since that's a serious but very subtil error, and you all > were very resourceful and diligent helping to fix it, I buy us all a > round of goldstars. Whew. http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#KB http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#KT http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#EZ http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fish-2.1.1-4

2014-10-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
The fish package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. Changes in this release: * Set BROWSER to cygstart. This allows the fish_config command to open its page in the default browser in Windows. For most users I think this is going to be the sensible default, but if you prefer to use an

Re: terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo requirement

2014-10-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I have found that terminfo is built such that it requires /usr/share > to be available but /usr/share isn't mounted by default. This causes > unexpected side effects of the terminal not responding properly > especially noticed when using the Backspace key. In my opinion either > terminfo needs

Re: terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo requirement

2014-10-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Andrew Schulman > wrote: > >> I have found that terminfo is built such that it requires /usr/share > >> to be available but /usr/share isn't mounted by default. This causes > >> unexpected side effects of the terminal n

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: discus 0.2.9-1

2014-11-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
The discus package is new in the Cygwin distribution. discus is a pretty version of the df(1) command. It adds features such as color, graphs, and smart formatting of numbers (automatically choosing the most suitable size from kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, or terabytes). If you don't want disc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: time 1.7-4

2014-11-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
The time package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. This is a Cygwin-only update, with a new maintainer and build script. The upstream time program hasn't changed since 1996. The 'time' command runs another program, then displays information about the resources used by that program, co

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: sitecopy 0.16.6-1

2014-11-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
The sitecopy package is new in the Cygwin distribution. sitecopy is for easily maintaining remote web sites. The program will upload files to the server which have changed locally, and delete files from the server which have been removed locally, to keep the remote site synchronized with the local

Re: terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo requirement

2014-11-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > Nope. The problem you're encountering is homemade. /usr/share is a > > normal directory just like /usr. There's no reason at all to mount > > anything there. If your installation doesn't have /usr/share, your > > installation

Re: [Packaging error] sitecopy-0.16.6-1; 32 and 64bit

2014-11-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Files from /usr/doc/sitecopy should be installed under > /usr/share/doc/sitecopy Well I'll be... thanks for spotting that. Not sure how I missed it. Corinna missed it too though so I'm thinking it's her fault. I'll fix that and upload a new package. Andrew -- Problem reports: http://c

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sitecopy 0.16.6-2

2014-11-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
An update of the sitecopy package is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a Cygwin-only update, that puts documentation files in the right locations. Thanks to Volker Zell for reporting the problem in the previous release. sitecopy is for easily maintaining remote web sites. The program

Re: version of stunnel and SMTP with STARTTLS

2014-11-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> what version of stunnel is this > http://johnny.chadda.se/article/add-proper-ssltls-support-for-all-applications-using-stunnel/ > > I notice that webpage has stunnel using SMTP..with STARTTLS > > What command would do that with the stunnel that comes with cygwin? I haven't tried his commands,

Re: Pin package version

2014-11-18 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I could not find an answer to this: is it possible to pin a package > version with the Cygwin installer? Switching manually to "keep" on > every update is error prone. +1 (for all that's worth) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fish-2.1.1-5

2014-12-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
The fish package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. Changes in this release: * Don't set GREP_OPTIONS. Use a grep function instead. With the recent update to grep 2.21 in Cygwin, setting GREP_OPTIONS makes grep issue a warning each time it's run, which is a lot. This fixes the warning.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel 5.07-2

2014-12-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 5.07-2, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with minor improvements and bug fixes. Note for x86_64 only: Cygwin release 5.07-1 was briefly available, for x86_64 only. That release was the same as 5.07-2, except that it included a fal

Re: OpenSSL as Base package

2014-12-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > These Perl scripts are nonessential for OpenSSL functionality, and not > > required to be used, unless you have very specific needs. > > Fair enough. In that case, the correct solution is to create a separate > openssl-perl package with those (like Fedora does), and leave those > outside of

ssh ControlMaster still broken?

2015-01-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
Hi. Back in 2008 someone asked if ssh shared connections via ControlMaster worked in Cygwin, and the answer was no: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-06/msg00280.html I'm just checking in to see, has there been any change in the situation since then? I've been trying to use ControlMaster tod

Re: ssh ControlMaster still broken?

2015-01-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Jan 2 10:51, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Hi. Back in 2008 someone asked if ssh shared connections via ControlMaster > > worked in Cygwin, and the answer was no: > > > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-06/msg00280.html > > > > I'm just chec

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel 5.09-1

2015-01-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 5.09-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with minor improvements and bug fixes. stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside TLS (Transport Layer Security, formerly known as Secure Sockets Layer (

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp 4.6.1-1

2015-01-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 4.6.1-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release with bug fixes. The full changelog is at http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http/bittorrent client. It supports multiple network protocols. It

Re: xz update 5.2.0 is available upstream - package maintainer?

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > From: mappu > > > > P.S. please CC, i'm not subscribed to list > > > > So subscribe already. Or, read the list on the web at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/current/threads.html. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentat

Re: Although advertised on a different Cygwin mailing list ...

2015-01-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > One detail bugging me (and probably others as well) in Setup is this. > > If I chose to install a test version of a package, and then start Setup > > again, Setup will default to the current version of the package again. > > If I'm just a bit careless, I'll overwrite my test version with the cu

regtool load gives access denied

2015-02-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
I want to back up and restore some of my registry settings. I start a shell with "Run as administrator", and regtool save seems to work fine for saving: $ regtool save /HKCU/Software/SimonTatham/PuTTY/Sessions PuTTY.reg $ However when I try to reload the saved settings, I get access denied: $

Re: Argonne (cygwin) software mirror will no longer be available as of February 1, 2015

2015-02-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
> So this is why update didn't work today... Your tax dollars no longer at > work, for you... Boo :( -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

Re: regtool load gives access denied

2015-02-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I just implemented a restore operation in regtool. Please note the -f > option, it's really necessary sometimes (but you should always ask > yourself what process might have an open handle). > > I created a new snapshot for testing and uploaded it to > https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > Please

how to determine if a shell is running as Administrator?

2015-02-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
What's a reliable and efficient way to determine programmatically if the shell that's running has elevated privileges? Or if you prefer, how can I tell if the shell was started with "Run as administrator"? I'm looking for a solution that's reliable across installations and OS versions. I want it

Re: how to determine if a shell is running as Administrator?

2015-02-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Feb 5 12:08, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > >> 2. Parse the output of groups or id -G. I can't find any reliable way > > >> to do > > >> this. For example on my host, when I start a shell with "Run as > > >> administrator", > > >> the new group I get isn't 544 (Admini

Re: how to determine if a shell is running as Administrator?

2015-02-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > > Andrew Schulman wrote: > > What's a reliable and efficient way to determine programmatically if the > > shell> that's running has elevated privileges? > > > Or if you prefer, how can I tell if the shell was started with "Run as > >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fish-2.1.1-6

2015-02-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
The fish package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. This release has a few Cygwin-only improvements: * sudo function: Alias for 'cygstart --action=runas', which runs a command as Administrator after prompting for approval by UAC. This is the Cygwin analog of sudo in Linux. For exampl

why does libpng16 require libpng-doc?

2015-02-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
As of now, libpng16 requires libpng-doc. Is this a mistake? It seems to defeat the purpose of splitting the docs into a separate package, since we have to install both. And for those of us who are only getting libpng16 because it's required by another package, we're forced to install libpng-doc

Re: why does libpng16 require libpng-doc?

2015-02-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Sun, 2015-02-08 at 15:08 -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > As of now, libpng16 requires libpng-doc. Is this a mistake? It seems to > > defeat > > the purpose of splitting the docs into a separate package, since we have to > > install both. And for those of us wh

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: orpie 1.5.2-2

2015-02-11 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of orpie, 1.5.2-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a Cygwin-only update. orpie has been rebuilt against the shiny new libncursesw10, leaving behind crufty old libncurses10, for your premium calculating experience. Orpie is a fullscreen RPN calculator for the consol

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated, new for x86_64: ploticus 2.42-1

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of ploticus, 2.42-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is an update for i686, and a new package for x86_64. Ploticus is a utility that can produce various types of plots and graphs. Data input is usually csv files or text files such as used with sort, awk, etc. Output op

Re: wish: setup.exe should remember the desktop icon setting

2015-02-22 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Hi, > > when I run setup.exe for the first time, it shows a checkbox somewhere > at the end of the wizard, allowing me to create a Cygwin icon on the > desktop. > > I don’t want this icon, so I uncheck that box. But when I later run > setup.exe again, the checkbox is checked again, and I have t

Re: wish: setup.exe should remember the desktop icon setting

2015-02-22 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Am 22.02.2015 um 21:53 schrieb Andrew Schulman: > >> Hi, > >> > >> when I run setup.exe for the first time, it shows a checkbox somewhere > >> at the end of the wizard, allowing me to create a Cygwin icon on the > >> desktop. > >> >

Re: Questions about creating a package or not

2015-03-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Hello, > > I have compiled monit in cygwin but some of the functionalities are not aware. > I don't have the necessary programming experience to provide them. > > The binary is usable, and I supply the unaware features with some > wrapper scripts that "do same job". > > After talking with the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [SECURITY] Updated: lftp 4.6.1-2

2015-03-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 4.6.1-2, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a security update. It fixes a bug in which lftp would by default save the key fingerprint of unverified hosts in the ssh known_hosts file (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180209). The patched version a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [SECURITY] Updated: socat 1.7.3.0-2, 2.0.0-b7-2

2015-03-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
Two new versions of socat are available in the Cygwin distribution: 1.7.3.0-2 - current 2.0.0-b7-2 - test Version 1.7.3.0-2 is a new upstream release, with several security fixes. Please see the full changelog at http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/CHANGES. All users of socat 1.x are urged

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autossh 1.4e-1

2015-03-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new release of autossh is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with a small adjustment to how poll times are chosen. See http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/CHANGES for a full list of changes. autossh is a program to start an instance of ssh and monitor it, rest

Re: Fish Shell Speed?

2015-05-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
> David Frascone wrote: > > 1) Has anyone seen this behavior before? If so, do you remember which > > functions may be causing it (hg vs git speed under cygwin maybe?) > > > > 2) Any thoughts on trying to profile a prompt and/or shell script, if > > I pull it out of the prompt function > > Anyti

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel 5.17-1

2015-05-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 5.17-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a minor upstream release. See http://www.stunnel.org/sdf_ChangeLog.html for the list of changes since the previous release, version 5.09. stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp 4.6.2-1

2015-05-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 4.6.2-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a minor upstream release. See http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html for the list of changes. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http/bittorrent client. It supports multiple network protocols. It uses the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [SECURITY] Updated: socat 2.0.0-b8-1

2015-05-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of socat, 2.0.0-b8-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This release fixes a possible denial of service attack, so if you are currently using an earlier 2.0.0-* release, you are urged to upgrade. See http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ for the full list of changes. The 2.0.0-*

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lilypond-2.19.18-2 [GOLDSTAR]

2015-05-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 06:13 +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > Versions 2.19.18-2 of > > lilypond > > lilypond-doc > > > > for cygwin are now available: > > > > CYGWIN CHANGES > > Both architecture are now available using latest development > > (but more cygwin 32bit robust) rele

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: unison2.48

2015-06-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
The unison2.48 package is now available in the Cygwin distribution. Unison is a file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or on different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: unison2.40-2.40.63-1

2012-01-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
The unison2.40 package for Cygwin has been updated. This is a new upstream release. About Unison Unison is a file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or on different disks on the same ho

1.7.10: cygpath -p "wide char path lists not yet supported" - cygcheck.out (0/1)

2012-02-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
$ cygpath -u 'C:\WINDOWS' /win/c/WINDOWS $ cygpath -pu 'C:\WINDOWS' 15 [main] cygpath 5076 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe: *** fatal error - wide char path lists not yet supported Hangup -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docu

Re: 1.7.10: cygpath -p "wide char path lists not yet supported" - cygcheck.out (0/1)

2012-02-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Feb 8 12:22, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > $ cygpath -u 'C:\WINDOWS' > > /win/c/WINDOWS > > > > $ cygpath -pu 'C:\WINDOWS' > > 15 [main] cygpath 5076 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe: *** fatal error - > > wide char path lists not &g

1.7.10: ipconfig opens a new console

2012-02-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
It used to be that when I ran ipconfig from bash, it would print output on stdout as usual. But for some time now, when I run ipconfig it opens a new console window, which then immediately closes again, making it impossible for me to read the output. At the same time, back in bash I see $ ipc

Re: 1.7.10: cygpath -p "wide char path lists not yet supported" - cygcheck.out (0/1)

2012-02-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
> THe fact that you have a .new file shows that setup tried to replace > the file after reboot. However, the Win32 functionality, MoveFileEx > with MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT | MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING flags > apparently doesn't work under all circumstances. See, for instance, > http://social.m

Re: 1.7.10: ipconfig opens a new console

2012-02-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:41 PM, René Berber wrote: > > On 2/8/2012 12:25 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > >> It used to be that when I ran ipconfig from bash, it would print > >> output on stdout as usual.  But for some time now, when I run > >> ipconfig

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