Cygwin package manager

2009-10-18 Thread Chris Cormie
Hi, I am working on a Cygwin package manager with an interface resembling apt-get. It's still a work in progress, but functional (commands below.) http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/ It would be great if some folks tried out the initial release and provided me with some feedback. Cheers, Chri

Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty

2009-10-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
FYI: I'm making my work on this subject available to any one who want to download my work. At http://pmcferrin.homedns.org/lman2.cpio.gz is a copy of the Linux/BSD manual pages of Section 2 of the man directory. If these man pages symbols are NOT in cygwin1.dll file, the files has b

Re: Version error from set-1.7.exe

2009-10-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: What exactly is: "local package directory". It's the directory where setup.exe keeps local copies of all the packages it installs, which you select on the fourth screen of setup.exe. My directory (/updates) is void of any *.ini files and

Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty

2009-10-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
I already found a source: http://www.bigbiz.com/cgi-bin/listman?2 which contains ascii formatted man pages for Linux. I used curl(1) to download the man pages, converted back to man(1) format, and installed them. I'm sure there are other pages besides the syscall version. At least I have a m

Re: Version error from set-1.7.exe

2009-10-18 Thread Robert Pendell
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > Paul McFerrin wrote: >> What exactly is: "local package directory". > >  It's the directory where setup.exe keeps local copies of all the packages it > installs, which you select on the fourth screen of setup.exe. > >>   My directory (/updates) i

Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty

2009-10-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Andy Koppe wrote: > However, looking at my Debian system after installing the > 'manpages-dev' package, 'man 2' is actually taken to mean 'library > system calls', i.e. it contains all the C-level wrappers around the > actual syscalls. Those include many standard POSIX functions that > Cygwin does

RE: howto schtasks without being within administrator group

2009-10-18 Thread Egerton, Jim
I had a similar requirement to give a non administrator user read access to the task scheduler and accomplished this with: setfacl -m default:user:test:r-x,user:test:r-x /windows/tasks setfacl -m default:user:test:r-x,user:test:r-x /windows/tasks/* This was for read access only, but you c