Re: A problem using "dd" on Cygwin

2015-03-01 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Angelo Graziosi! > I was playing with "dd" command to "install" an ISO image on an USB key > (to make it bootable). The USB key has size 8 GiB and I did this (as > Administrator): >$ dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M > (image.iso has a size of 1.6 GiB). After this the USB key has

Re: A problem using "dd" on Cygwin

2015-03-01 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 01:52 +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > 2. To recreate the partitions table: > >$ cfdisk /dev/sdb (???) >$ mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sdb1 >$ dosfslabel /dev/sdb1 USB_STICK > > but on Cygwin it seems that mkfs.vfat does not exist (in /usr/sbin I > find cfdis

A problem using "dd" on Cygwin

2015-03-01 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Just an exercise... I was playing with "dd" command to "install" an ISO image on an USB key (to make it bootable). The USB key has size 8 GiB and I did this (as Administrator): $ dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M (image.iso has a size of 1.6 GiB). After this the USB key has a size (partit

Re: Too Many Permissions Stripped In 1.7.35?

2015-03-01 Thread random user
Thanks for the reply. Seems we've maybe miscommunicated a bit tho. So not meaning to argue, just to try to clarify, let me try again: None of my concern, none of my examples, were intended to involve any ACLs other than those created by Cygwin touch, chgrp, chmod, and setfacl. (setfacl only used

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mpclib-1.0.3-1

2015-03-01 Thread Achim Gratz
MPC Multiprecision Library == The GNU MPC library is a C library for multiple-precision complex floating-point computations with exact rounding (also called correct rounding). It is based on the GMP and MPFR multiple-precision libraries. - version 1.0.3-1 - upstrea

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnupg-1.4.19-2

2015-03-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
New version 1.4.19-2 of gnupg is available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES This release mitigates two new side channel attacks. Updating any GnuPG 1.4 version to 1.4.19 is suggested! http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q1/000363.html CYGWIN CHANGES Added libusb in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated : netcdf 4.3.3.1-1

2015-03-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
Versions 4.3.3.1-1 of libnetcdf-devel libnetcdf7 netcdf are available in the Cygwin distribution. CHANGES New upstream version of netcdf https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/releases DESCRIPTION NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data for

Re: gnupg packaging bug?

2015-03-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 3/1/2015 3:48 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 12:31 +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote: So it seems that gnupg 1.4x is looking for the deprecated 0.1 API, not sure it is really worth. Even on Fedora, there are still a number of packages which have yet to be ported to the 1.0 API

Re: gnupg packaging bug?

2015-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 12:31, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 3/1/2015 11:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Mar 1 11:00, Marco Atzeri wrote: > >>On 2/28/2015 9:26 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > >>>gnupg-1.4.19-1 depends on libusb0 (64-bit only). I assume that happened > >>>by accident. > >>> > >>>Ken > > >> > >>So the q

Re: gnupg packaging bug?

2015-03-01 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 12:31 +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote: > further checking I found that gnupg requires > libusb-config but this seems present only in the > > libusb-devel-1.2.6.0-2 - libusb-devel: USB library (deprecated 0.1 API) > (installed binaries and support files) > > and not in the new API

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: task-2.4.1-1

2015-03-01 Thread Federico Hernandez
The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * task-2.4.1-1 (both for 32- and 64-bit) Task is a command-line to do list manager. It has support for GTD functionality and includes the following features: tags, colorful tabular output, reports and graphs, lots of manipulation

Re: gnupg packaging bug?

2015-03-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 3/1/2015 11:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 1 11:00, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 2/28/2015 9:26 PM, Ken Brown wrote: gnupg-1.4.19-1 depends on libusb0 (64-bit only). I assume that happened by accident. Ken So the question is: - enable for both or disable for both ? I'd vote for ena

Re: gnupg packaging bug?

2015-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 11:00, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 2/28/2015 9:26 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > >gnupg-1.4.19-1 depends on libusb0 (64-bit only). I assume that happened > >by accident. > > > >Ken > > In reality, it is by accident that the 32 bit don't have it > > The configure allows it: > > # libusb allows us

Re: gnupg packaging bug?

2015-03-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 2/28/2015 9:26 PM, Ken Brown wrote: gnupg-1.4.19-1 depends on libusb0 (64-bit only). I assume that happened by accident. Ken In reality, it is by accident that the 32 bit don't have it The configure allows it: # libusb allows us to use the integrated CCID smartcard reader driver. # We do

Re: Too Many Permissions Stripped In 1.7.35?

2015-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 28 17:04, random user wrote: > Re the user SID != group SID, chmod -x case: Thanks, sorry to have > wasted your time. It does seem the same on Linux, and chmod ug-x does > appear to work correctly. My bad. > > Re the user SID = group SID case: > > I'm not offhand spotting how to use chmod