[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grep-2.21-1

2014-11-26 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of grep, 2.21-1, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 2.20-1. NEWS: = This represents a new upstream release. For more details on the upstream changes, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/grep/. DESCRIPTION: G

Re: Cygwin AD schema and configuration extensions (was Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory)

2014-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 26 22:28, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Ok, so we have a cygwin schema extension now. The file is called > > cygwin.ldif and is in the Cygwin CVS repo. It gets installed to > > /usr/share/cygwin. The schema extension consists of two auxiliary > > classes: > […] > > Do

Re: Cygwin AD schema and configuration extensions (was Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory)

2014-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 26 21:44, Habermann, David (D) wrote: > > In the long run I'm also planning to allow replacing /etc/fstab and > > /etc/nsswitch.conf with a Cygwin-specific AD configuration extension. > > While I can see how this might be attractive for some, I see it as > something that must be an optional

RE: Cygwin AD schema and configuration extensions (was Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory)

2014-11-26 Thread Habermann, David (D)
> In the long run I'm also planning to allow replacing /etc/fstab and > /etc/nsswitch.conf with a Cygwin-specific AD configuration extension. While I can see how this might be attractive for some, I see it as something that must be an optional replacement of the /etc/fstab and /etc/nsswitch.conf

Re: Cygwin AD schema and configuration extensions (was Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory)

2014-11-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > Ok, so we have a cygwin schema extension now. The file is called > cygwin.ldif and is in the Cygwin CVS repo. It gets installed to > /usr/share/cygwin. The schema extension consists of two auxiliary > classes: […] > Do you think this makes sense? Would you actually us

Re: occasional failure to look up

2014-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 25 20:22, Habermann, David (D) wrote: > > Thanks. Unfortunately it's not useful, because the actual problem > > occurred inside Cygserver. What I need would be the problem captured > > by running cygserver from the command line like this: > > > $ strace -o cygserver.trace /usr/sbin/cygse

Cygwin AD schema and configuration extensions (was Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory)

2014-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 26 21:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Cygwin schema extension? :) > > I just created a patch and a matching snapshot on > https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Ok, so we have a cygwin schema extension now. The file is called cygwin.ldif and is in the Cygwin CVS repo. It gets installed to /usr/sh

Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory

2014-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 11 12:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 11 11:05, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > 1. Add a setting to /etc/nsswitch.conf which allows to specify one of > > > the above: > > > > > > home: [unix|win|home]... > > > > > >- "unix" means, set pw_di

Re: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

2014-11-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
You could also try a little script I wrote: http://home.arcor.de/zabruder/cygwin/cygdesc It needs files created by cygcheck-dep. Docs inside. -Helmut -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Re: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

2014-11-26 Thread Keith Christian
Hi Arthur, Two ways that I know of (besides Steven Penny's "apt-cyg" method.) 1 The fastest way to get the whole catalog is to run the setup program, but stop before installing any software (unless that is your ultimate goal.) Open a browser and download the setup program (http://cygwi

RE: man2html alternative?

2014-11-26 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
> From: Christian Franke > Chris J. Breisch wrote: > > At Thursday, July 3, 2014, 12:43:55 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > > >> In Fedora, man2html is provided as a separate package based on the > >> man-1.6g sources: > >> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/man2html.git/tree/man2html.spec > > Well,