Re: Updated: hwloc 1.11.6-1

On 25/02/2017 23:07, Andy Moreton wrote: On Sat 25 Feb 2017, Marco Atzeri wrote: Version 1.11.6-1 of packages hwloc libhwloc-devel libhwloc5 are available in the Cygwin distribution: This appears not to contain the hwloc(7) man page, mentioned in lstopo(1). Can this be added ? A

Re: cygpath (reprised)

Greetings, cyg Simple! > Also a : isn't a valid character for a name in Windows. Cygwin uses > some magic to represent it in UNICODE format though. It isn't a valid file "name" character, yes, but it is still a meaningful character in pathname under windows. Just the meaning of it is far from re

Re: Permissions need reordering and are strange

Greetings, lostbits! > I think that you have addressed reordered permission message in windows > before and have said to not reorder the permissions. But, I seem unable > to do security operations without reordering (such as change permissions > or ownership using the Windows Explorer). Do I ha

Re: Updated: hwloc 1.11.6-1

On Sat 25 Feb 2017, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Version 1.11.6-1 of packages > > hwloc > libhwloc-devel > libhwloc5 > > are available in the Cygwin distribution: This appears not to contain the hwloc(7) man page, mentioned in lstopo(1). Can this be added ? AndyM -- Problem reports:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: hwloc 1.11.6-1

Version 1.11.6-1 of packages hwloc libhwloc-devel libhwloc5 are available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES Upstream bugfix release Full upstream changes: https://mail-archive.com/hwloc-announce@lists.open-mpi.org/msg00095.html DESCRIPTION The Portable Hardware Locality (hwloc) softw

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mutt-1.8.0-1

New versions 1.8.0-1 of mutt is available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES Last upstream release. Full details on: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/UPDATING http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/ChangeLog DESCRIPTION The Mutt E-Mail Client "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." Mutt is

Permissions need reordering and are strange

I think that you have addressed reordered permission message in windows before and have said to not reorder the permissions. But, I seem unable to do security operations without reordering (such as change permissions or ownership using the Windows Explorer). Do I have to use cygwin in Admin mod

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:46:08, cyg Simple wrote: If *your* script has a dependency to run using *dash* instead of *sh* then you _must_ use #!/bin/dash anyway. I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Dash is. Dash is a minimal shell, similar to the "sh" defined by POSIX: http://p

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:43:30, Eric Blake wrote: But we are severely limited in volunteer manpower compared to Debian, and I suspect that 1) there won't be enough testers (we won't know the real impact until it is no longer experimental, but that is too late), and 2) even if testers are diligent,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

On 2/23/2017 2:46 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 20:38:08, Andrey Repin wrote: >> $ cat /etc/postinstall/zp_dash-as-bin-sh.dash >> #!/bin/dash > >> test ! -h /bin/sh.exe && { >> _f="$(mktemp /bin/sh.XX)" >> { >> mv /bin/sh.exe "$_f" >> ln -s /bin/dash.exe /bin/sh.exe

Re: cygpath (reprised)

On 2/21/2017 1:22 PM, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: > From: Andrey Repin >>> But, consider the following: >> >>> $ cygpath -w a:b | od -An -tx1c >>> 41 3a 62 0a >>>A : b \n >>> $ >> >>> Instead of the special character colon (:), shouldn't cygpath be showing >>> something in the

XFIG uses wrong fonts. Solved

Hi, I am currently installing a new 64bits distribution of cygwin and an UBUNTU 16.04 in another machine. In both cases xfig does not find the ghostscript fonts and all the texts in the drawings appear with the same default font, making the application practically useless. The reason is the same: