Re: setup.exe: Improvements of DPI handling

2024-07-21 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
On 07/07/2024 03:46, Yang Yu Lin via Cygwin wrote: When running setup on my device (Windows 11, connected with 2 screens which use different DPI revolutions), the setup appears bluury on my secondary screen (not on the primary screen). Because current setup.exe.manifest just set the dpiAware ele

RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Setup.exe suggestions

2024-02-29 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
Thank you for your response about the shortcuts... And double-clicks (which can be a ton when installing anew, as I figured). > Doubleclick in "New" column toggles between "Skip" or "Keep" and the > "preferred version". Ctrl+I selects the latter.and moves to the next row. What if I don't need t

Re: Setup.exe suggestions

2024-02-28 Thread Christian Franke via Cygwin
Hi, Lavrentiev, Anton wrote ... For new installations, it'd be great to have the most suitable (in most cases, the most recent) version shown as the first selection in all those pulldown version lists in the "New" columns. The logical order would be "the preferred (latest) version", "the vers

Re: setup.exe corruption

2020-12-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, o lu! Please don't top-post on this list. >>> >>> > It worked, but I dont understand on Windows >>> >>> If you have downloaded it into a directory mounted with "acl" option, >>> POSIX behavior apply. >> How does the acl option work? I ran it on a regular Windows directory (to >> my kn

Re: setup.exe corruption

2020-12-05 Thread o lu via Cygwin
How does this acl option work? Im on Win 10 Home. On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:10 AM o lu wrote: > How does the acl option work? I ran it on a regular Windows directory (to > my knowledge). > > Your english is fine. > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 4:20 AM Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Greetings, o lu! >>

Re: setup.exe corruption

2020-04-16 Thread o lu via Cygwin
How does the acl option work? I ran it on a regular Windows directory (to my knowledge). Your english is fine. On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 4:20 AM Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, o lu! > > > It worked, but I dont understand on Windows > > If you have downloaded it into a directory mounted with "ac

Re: setup.exe corruption

2020-04-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, o lu! > It worked, but I dont understand on Windows If you have downloaded it into a directory mounted with "acl" option, POSIX behavior apply. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, April 16, 2020 11:06:22 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cy

Re: setup.exe corruption

2020-04-14 Thread o lu via Cygwin
It worked, but I dont understand on Windows -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: setup.exe corruption

2020-04-14 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-14 04:43, o lu via Cygwin wrote: > When downloaded with cygwin wget > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:34 AM o lu wrote: >> Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file... >> with latest setup.exe Which: https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe or https://cygwin.com/s

Re: setup.exe corruption

2020-04-14 Thread o lu via Cygwin
When downloaded with cygwin wget On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:34 AM o lu wrote: > Windows cannot access the specified device... > > Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file with > latest setup.exe > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

2019-06-12 Thread Keith Christian
Brian, All-volunteer. I understand that well, and have been using Cygwin for a long long time. The volunteers love what they do, and I try to be as respectful as possible when suggesting changes, changes mean more work for them. I'm satisfied with this thread. Thanks Achim, Jon, and to any oth

Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

2019-06-12 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-06-11 14:52, Keith Christian wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:39 PM Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2019-06-11 11:19, Achim Gratz wrote: >>> Keith Christian writes: Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to consider an option box log errors to the setup.log file and "Skip no

Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

2019-06-11 Thread Keith Christian
Thanks for the feedback. Even if a file were missing that might cause issues in a few dependency chains, why not allow the install to continue? Suppose a file was missing halfway through? Why stop the whole install for the sake of a few missing files? Let the install continue for those packages

Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

2019-06-11 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-06-11 11:19, Achim Gratz wrote: > Keith Christian writes: >> Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to consider an option >> box log errors to the setup.log file and "Skip non-fatal errors and >> continue?" > > You'd first have to teach setup to distinguish between fatal and > non

Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

2019-06-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Keith Christian writes: > Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to consider an option > box log errors to the setup.log file and "Skip non-fatal errors and > continue?" You'd first have to teach setup to distinguish between fatal and non-fatal errors. A missing package archive is always

Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

2019-06-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Keith Christian! > Today I am reinstalling Cygwin to fix a DLL package, taking awhile but > worth the wait (-: (-: > Setup paused with a dialog to report a missing .xz file. I saw the > error a half hour later. > Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to consider an option

Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

2019-06-11 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-06-11 05:27, Keith Christian wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:03 AM Henning wrote: >> On 10/06/2019 23:41, Keith Christian wrote: >>> Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to consider an option box >>> log errors to the setup.log file and "Skip non-fatal errors and >>> continue

Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

2019-06-11 Thread Keith Christian
And if this option is deemed worthy of implementation, add a command line option for those who skip the GUI. Thanks again. On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:03 AM Henning wrote: > > On 10/06/2019 23:41, Keith Christian wrote: > > > > Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to consider an option

Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log

2019-06-11 Thread Henning
On 10/06/2019 23:41, Keith Christian wrote: Would the maintainers (Achim? Jon?) be willing to consider an option box log errors to the setup.log file and "Skip non-fatal errors and continue?" either this, or a prompt asking if the user wants to continue or abort. Henning -- Problem reports:

Re: Setup.exe: solution to misbehaviour

2019-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 09:19, Houder wrote: > L.S., > > Setup.exe writes "user defaults" to /etc/setup/setup.rc in the root > directory. Among these user defaults (which should override program > defaults) are "last-action" and "last-cache". > > last-cache is an alias for the Local Package Directory (abbrevia

Re: setup.exe: How do I download sources for just ONE package when using setup-x86 from the command-line?

2018-11-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 01.11.2018 um 17:37 schrieb John Doucette: Hi all, My current setup-x86 is version 2.893. Cygwin is not installed yet, so I am running setup-x86.exe from within PowerShell on Win7. PS C:\> .\setup-x86.exe -V PS C:\ > Cygwin setup 2.893 First I run setup to download all things Devel using:

Re: setup.exe: How do I download sources for just ONE package when using setup-x86 from the command-line?

2018-11-01 Thread cyg Simple
On 11/1/2018 12:37 PM, John Doucette wrote: > Hi all, > > My current setup-x86 is version 2.893. > Cygwin is not installed yet, so I am running setup-x86.exe from within > PowerShell on Win7. > > PS C:\> .\setup-x86.exe -V > PS C:\ > Cygwin setup 2.893 > > First I run setup to download all thi

Re: setup.exe problem in wine

2017-07-03 Thread Richard Z
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 07:45:34AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > > Well, shoot. So I tried again with WINEDEBUG=+relay to get a log of > system calls, > Wading through the noise, I saw two interesting things: > > 0030:Starting process L"C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\bash.exe" (entryproc=0x100401000) > ... > 00

Re: setup.exe problem in wine

2017-07-01 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Richard Z wrote: > strangely WINEDEBUG does nothing for me. Did you remember to export it? - Dan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: setup.exe problem in wine

2017-07-01 Thread Richard Z
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 07:45:34AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: thanks for the tipps and trying.. > There were lots of complaints from setup.exe (not wine) of the sort > AddAccessAllowedAceEx(C:\cygwin64/etc/setup, group) failed: 1337 > but those can probably be ignored. same here. > Default install

Re: setup.exe problem in wine

2017-06-30 Thread Dan Kegel
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 5:44 AM, Richard Z wrote: >> read in various places that it should work, but I get >> "Cygwin is not supported on this Windows version" running >> from both wineconsole or bash. > > got somewhat farther with "--allow-unsupported-windows" > and also need "--site" because mir

Re: setup.exe problem in wine

2017-06-30 Thread Richard Z
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 01:26:19PM +0200, Richard Z wrote: > Hi, > > read in various places that it should work, but I get > "Cygwin is not supported on this Windows version" running > from both wineconsole or bash. got somewhat farther with "--allow-unsupported-windows" and also need "--site" be

Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ?

2016-10-01 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jérôme Bouat! >> If you can't access the internet, how would you download anything >> to your system? > My organisation forbids the use of IE. The corporate web browser is Firefox. Doesn't change the fact proxy settings are available in control panel. >> What makes you think it i

Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ?

2016-09-30 Thread Jérôme Bouat
thinking, so allow me a crazy thought. AFAIK, Cygwin's setup can't use a HTTPS mirror [1]. Given the desire to move more and more web traffic onto HTTPS, would an option to download through IE be a cheap way to add HTTPS support to setup? Would probably be easier to replace the existing plumbing

Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ?

2016-09-30 Thread Jérôme Bouat
If you can't access the internet, how would you download anything to your system? My organisation forbids the use of IE. The corporate web browser is Firefox. What makes you think it is using IE's cache? I just performed this simple test : 1. clear the IE disk cache 2. use Setup.exe in

Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ?

2016-09-27 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-09-27 12:29, David Stacey wrote: On 27/09/16 03:24, Linda Walsh wrote: What makes you think it is downloaded into the IE disk cache? I don't think it should be -- as AFAIK, it doesn't use IE to download anything setup using IE to do its downloading is a bad idea. But, that got me thinki

Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ?

2016-09-27 Thread David Stacey
On 27/09/16 03:24, Linda Walsh wrote: What makes you think it is downloaded into the IE disk cache? I don't think it should be -- as AFAIK, it doesn't use IE to download anything setup using IE to do its downloading is a bad idea. But, that got me thinking, so allow me a crazy thought. AFAIK,

Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ?

2016-09-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Jérôme Bouat wrote: Hello, I'm using cygwin on a thin desktop computer which has limited disk storage. The network configuration of setup.exe relies on the proxy auto-configuration script of IE. --- Actually, it doesn't "rely" on it, it offers to use whatever "IE" is set to instead of

Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ?

2016-09-26 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-09-26 13:35, Jérôme Bouat wrote: I'm using cygwin on a thin desktop computer which has limited disk storage. The network configuration of setup.exe relies on the proxy auto-configuration script of IE. To see your proxy config, try running: $ wget -q -O - `ipconfig | \ sed '/^\s\+Connec

Re: setup.exe to have Install button

2016-09-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 08/09/16 22:59, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: Just in case anyone's collecting change requests against Setup.exe, here's a simple one that I'd like to see: All screens until the final screen display a "Next>" button. Typically, after launching, I just click this button until I get to the list o

Re: setup.exe to have Install button

2016-09-08 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-09-08 08:47, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2016-09-08 06:59, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: Just in case anyone's collecting change requests against Setup.exe, here's a simple one that I'd like to see: All screens until the final screen display a "Next>" button. Typically, after launching, I just clic

Re: setup.exe to have Install button

2016-09-08 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-09-08 06:59, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: Just in case anyone's collecting change requests against Setup.exe, here's a simple one that I'd like to see: All screens until the final screen display a "Next>" button. Typically, after launching, I just click this button until I get to the list of p

Re: setup.exe with packages specified downloads multiple versions [?]

2015-10-29 Thread Roger Pack
On 10/29/15, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > > On 29/10/2015 20:53, Roger Pack wrote: >> As a note, running this: >> >> >> setup-x86.exe ^ >> --quiet-mode ^ >> --no-admin ^ >> --no-startmenu ^ >> --no-shortcuts ^ >> --no-desktop ^ >> --site http://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/ ^ >> --root %cd% ^ >> --packa

Re: setup.exe with packages specified downloads multiple versions [?]

2015-10-29 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 29/10/2015 20:53, Roger Pack wrote: As a note, running this: setup-x86.exe ^ --quiet-mode ^ --no-admin ^ --no-startmenu ^ --no-shortcuts ^ --no-desktop ^ --site http://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/ ^ --root %cd% ^ --packages ^ ed,curl,wget,subversion,texinfo,gcc-g++,bison,flex,cvs,yasm,auto

Re: setup.exe a mystery -SOLVED

2015-10-23 Thread Tom Axehult
Following your suggestion solved my problems On 22.10.2015 14:37, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/22/2015 6:28 AM, Tom Axehult wrote: I lost bash weeks ago and hence cygwin which I used to start from Cywin.bat as administrator, by the well known bash --login -i For reasons beyond me, I can run Xemacs

Re: setup.exe a mystery

2015-10-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/22/2015 6:28 AM, Tom Axehult wrote: I lost bash weeks ago and hence cygwin which I used to start from Cywin.bat as administrator, by the well known bash --login -i For reasons beyond me, I can run Xemacs and reach bash functionality from (Tools/shell command) and thus produce cygcheck. Usin

Re: setup.exe version 2.872 (32 bit) breaks vim on winxp

2015-10-15 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 17:04 -0600, om...@sdf.org wrote: > Vim won't start after perfomring an update with the latest setup.exe. I do > echo $? and it shows it exited with 127. For future reference: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > This person > https://superuser.com/questions/859379/exit-code

RE: setup.exe -s site option not working for me

2015-08-28 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Jon TURNEY > > It seems you are not using the right URL. Try > > -s "http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/cygwin/cygwin/"; > > This is what the link on https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html points to. Hey, Jon, thanx! I'm in business. Not sure if/where that was documented. FWIW, it appears that the w

Re: setup.exe -s site option not working for me

2015-08-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Nellis, Kenneth xerox.com> writes: > I currently run setup through a Windows shortcut that adds options > -d -N to the standard command line. Being exposed recently to > cygwinports, I was attempting to have separate shortcuts, one for > regular cygwin and one for cygwinports. No, if you use c

Re: setup.exe -s site option not working for me

2015-08-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 28/08/2015 15:42, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: I appreciate the response and the provided script, but the question remains whether I am doing something wrong (and what!) or if setup.exe just isn't working as expected (bug?). Specifically, in the Target field of my shortcut's properties, I have: C:

RE: setup.exe -s site option not working for me

2015-08-28 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
I appreciate the response and the provided script, but the question remains whether I am doing something wrong (and what!) or if setup.exe just isn't working as expected (bug?). Specifically, in the Target field of my shortcut's properties, I have: C:\Users\knellis\Installers\Cygwin\setup-x86_64.

Re: setup.exe -s site option not working for me

2015-08-28 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Nellis, Kenneth! > Dear Cygwin Users: > I currently run setup through a Windows shortcut that adds options > -d -N to the standard command line. Being exposed recently to > cygwinports, I was attempting to have separate shortcuts, Wasted effort. > one for regular cygwin and one for

Re: setup.exe 2.852 size ballooned

2014-10-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 30 17:46, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Not stripped before compressing, actually. Fixed now. > > I once offered a Makefile patch to add a target to make stripped and > compressed binaries. Cristopher didn't like it, but I could offer it > again since I've kept it on a

Re: setup.exe 2.852 size ballooned

2014-10-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > Not stripped before compressing, actually. Fixed now. I once offered a Makefile patch to add a target to make stripped and compressed binaries. Cristopher didn't like it, but I could offer it again since I've kept it on a local branch. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matri

Re: setup.exe 2.852 size ballooned

2014-10-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 28 09:12, Achim Gratz wrote: > Am 27.10.2014 um 23:40 schrieb Warren Young: > >Why did setup.exe just get 7x larger, relative to 2.850? > > Not compressed by UPX, I suppose. Not stripped before compressing, actually. Fixed now. Thanks for the report, Warren. Corinna -- Corinna Vinsch

Re: setup.exe 2.852 size ballooned

2014-10-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 27.10.2014 um 23:40 schrieb Warren Young: Why did setup.exe just get 7x larger, relative to 2.850? Not compressed by UPX, I suppose. -- Achim. (on the road :-) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> > So, if anybody wants to take a stab at setup and revamp it, feel free. >> > The only requirements are, it should still be able to utilize the >> > setup.ini file created on cygwin.com, it should still be able to work >> > the mirror list provided by cygwin.com, an

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 26 13:53, Andrey Repin wrote: > > So, if anybody wants to take a stab at setup and revamp it, feel free. > > The only requirements are, it should still be able to utilize the > > setup.ini file created on cygwin.com, it should still be able to work > > the mirror list provided by cygwin.com,

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> If you ask me, Setup is long overdue for a complete replacement. >> It "don't have" so many things other package managers allow, that I don't >> even >> know, where to start. Meta dependencies? Suggestions? Virtual packages? > The problem is not that we don't know

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 26 05:35, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Bjorn Kautler! > > > But first things first, it is Bjorn or Bjoern, not Bjorn. :-) > > Apology. My current locale does not include western diacritics. > > > Now I only wanted to update the git packages, so I selected "Keep" in > > the upper right

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bjorn Kautler! > But first things first, it is Bjorn or Bjoern, not Bjorn. :-) Apology. My current locale does not include western diacritics. > Now I only wanted to update the git packages, so I selected "Keep" in > the upper right corner, That's the worst thing you could possible d

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-25 Thread Björn Kautler
Hm, now that's interesting. But first things first, it is Björn or Bjoern, not Bjorn. :-) Now to the interesting part. If I call setup.exe like the following: setup-cygwin.exe --site ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwinports/ --site ftp://ftp.hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de/cygwin/ --only-site -

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bjorn Kautler! > I usually start setup.exe like "setup.exe -K > http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg"; and select the cygwinports mirror > and a "normal" mirror in the mirror selection page to have the > packages from both mirrors readily available, selectable and > updatable. > Unfortunat

Re: setup.exe handles same packages in multiple mirrors badly

2014-08-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/25/2014 01:33 PM, Björn Kautler wrote: Hi, I usually start setup.exe like "setup.exe -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg"; and select the cygwinports mirror and a "normal" mirror in the mirror selection page to have the packages from both mirrors readily available, selectable and updatable

Re: setup.exe version 2.844 (32 bit): "No packages found."

2014-04-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/5/2014 9:25 PM, Matthew Langston wrote: The "Select Pacakge" window shows "No packages found." when I run setup.exe version 2.844 (32 bit) and choose the option to “Install from Local Directory" even though there are 167 .tar.bz2 files in my local directory. These are the options I choose

Re: setup.exe bad signatures?

2014-02-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Michael Ryan writes: > I'm trying to verify the signatures on the latest setup.exe files and I'm > finding that they don't match: > > $ gpg --verify setup-x86.exe.sig > gpg: Signature made Fri 13 Dec 2013 17:24:37 GMT using DSA key ID 676041BA > gpg: BAD signature from "Cygwin " > $ gpg --verify s

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-02-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 28/01/2014 19:19, Chris J. Breisch wrote: BGINFO4X wrote: Hello everybody, What is the recommende way to install ONLY one pakcage(bash for example) with the GUI? What I do is: All -> Uninstall , then check for the package that I want: Base -> Bash -> Install If I do in this manner, I

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/29/2014 1:10 PM, BGINFO4X wrote: It seems like "base category" is "like a dependency" of bash ... , which can be bypassed with the setupGUI. Close but not quite. "Base" is a category containing packages, including bash, that is installed by default. -- Larry _

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread BGINFO4X
> On 1/29/2014 11:24 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> >> Chris J. Breisch breisch.org> writes: >>> >>> No, I don't agree with that statement. I'd be more inclined to believe >>> that it's a bug in the command-line interface that doesn't allow you to >>> do what the GUI does. >> >> >> You can disagree all

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/29/2014 11:24 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Chris J. Breisch breisch.org> writes: No, I don't agree with that statement. I'd be more inclined to believe that it's a bug in the command-line interface that doesn't allow you to do what the GUI does. You can disagree all you want, the source of set

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Chris J. Breisch breisch.org> writes: > No, I don't agree with that statement. I'd be more inclined to believe > that it's a bug in the command-line interface that doesn't allow you to > do what the GUI does. You can disagree all you want, the source of setup makes it pretty clear that all pack

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Achim Gratz wrote: They are, if you don't fiddle with a checkbox that you shouldn't be able to toggle in the first place. In other words it's a bug in the GUI that you are able to bypass the install of some Base packages. No, I don't agree with that statement. I'd be more inclined to believe

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Achim Gratz
BGINFO4X kztsoftware.com> writes: > On my humble opinion, If I check ONLY bash with GUI, and I use the > command-line "setup-x86.exe -g -o --no-desktop --no-shortcuts > --no-startmenu --local-install %CYGWINALOCALPACKAGES% --quiet-mode > --root %CYGWINADMINDIR% --packages bash" both results should

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread BGINFO4X
2014-01-29 Chris J. Breisch : > BGINFO4X wrote: >> >> On my humble opinion, If I check ONLY bash with GUI, and I use the >> command-line "setup-x86.exe -g -o --no-desktop --no-shortcuts >> --no-startmenu --local-install %CYGWINALOCALPACKAGES% --quiet-mode >> --root %CYGWINADMINDIR% --packages bash"

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Chris J. Breisch
BGINFO4X wrote: On my humble opinion, If I check ONLY bash with GUI, and I use the command-line "setup-x86.exe -g -o --no-desktop --no-shortcuts --no-startmenu --local-install %CYGWINALOCALPACKAGES% --quiet-mode --root %CYGWINADMINDIR% --packages bash" both results should be the same. No. You

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread BGINFO4X
> BGINFO4X writes: >> I did it, and the results are diferent. > > Because you made it so. > >> I attach on the email both setup results: with commandline and with GUI. > > So you managed to trick setup into not installing some Base packages in > the GUI. If you wouldn't have done that, you'd hav

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-28 Thread Achim Gratz
BGINFO4X writes: > I did it, and the results are diferent. Because you made it so. > I attach on the email both setup results: with commandline and with GUI. So you managed to trick setup into not installing some Base packages in the GUI. If you wouldn't have done that, you'd have installed t

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-28 Thread Chris J. Breisch
BGINFO4X wrote: Hello everybody, What is the recommende way to install ONLY one pakcage(bash for example) with the GUI? What I do is: All -> Uninstall , then check for the package that I want: Base -> Bash -> Install If I do in this manner, I obtain less packages than installing bash from t

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 28/01/2014 15:41, BGINFO4X wrote: Hello everybody, What is the recommende way to install ONLY one pakcage(bash for example) with the GUI? What I do is: All -> Uninstall , then check for the package that I want: Base -> Bash -> Install better to test from scratch in an empty directory, to

Re: setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab

2013-10-04 Thread James R. Phillips
>I notice that every time I run setup.exe, my soft link gets removed and a new >profile is created for me the next time I open a Cygwin terminal. I can confirm a similar issue in setup-x86_64. However, the soft link for /home is not actually removed - it remains side-by-side with the new /home d

Re: setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab

2013-09-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! >>> My current solution is to just mount it in fstab with the following line: >>> >>>c:/Users /home ntfs binary,posix=0,nouser >> >> Alternatively, you can set HOME in your >> Windows environment to point to the directory you want as your home. > Or, change the second

Re: setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab

2013-09-19 Thread Warren Young
On 9/19/2013 19:15, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 9/19/2013 12:16 PM, Rob Siklos wrote: My current solution is to just mount it in fstab with the following line: c:/Users /home ntfs binary,posix=0,nouser Alternatively, you can set HOME in your Windows environment to point to the directory

Re: setup.exe and mounting home directory in fstab

2013-09-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/19/2013 12:16 PM, Rob Siklos wrote: Background: I wanted my /home directory to point to c:\Users rather than the out-of-the-box home directory created by cygwin. In order to accomplish this, I deleted the existing home folder and created a soft link mapping /home to /cygdrive/c/Users. Thi

Re: Setup.exe crashes before opening the servers window on Windows XP

2013-07-05 Thread gialloporpora
RiOk, thanks Marco (grazie :-)) Now I have solved. I have removed (renamed) the file setup.rc in /etc/setup and it works again. Sandro -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html U

Re: Setup.exe crashes before opening the servers window on Windows XP

2013-07-05 Thread gialloporpora
Risposta al messaggio di marco atzeri : have you downloaded the latest setup or you are using an old copy ? I have the latest version, I have downloaded it yesterday: C:\cygwin>Starting cygwin install, version 2.774 and it worked fine until I have uninstalled some packages and rebooted my

Re: Setup.exe crashes before opening the servers window on Windows XP

2013-07-05 Thread marco atzeri
Il 7/5/2013 9:25 PM, gialloporpora ha scritto: Dear all, I have the same problem reported in this topic: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-03/msg00259.html any time I start setup.exe (I need to update some packages) I have this error message: > > Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library > Runtim

RE: Setup.exe won't run from Bash on Windows 8

2013-06-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) sent the following at Monday, June 17, 2013 7:17 PM >On 2013-06-17 18:13, Chloe wrote: >> But it will run if I double click it from Explorer. I have >> execute permissions. What is wrong? > >Due to UAC Installer Detection, setup.exe requires Admin permissions >in order to run, b

Re: Setup.exe won't run from Bash on Windows 8

2013-06-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2013-06-17 18:13, Chloe wrote: But it will run if I double click it from Explorer. I have execute permissions. What is wrong? Due to UAC Installer Detection, setup.exe requires Admin permissions in order to run, but bash doesn't know that. Use cygstart /path/to/setup.exe to work around th

Re: Setup.exe won't run from Bash on Windows 8

2013-06-17 Thread Dan Kegel
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Chloe wrote: > But it will run if I double click it from Explorer. I have execute > permissions. What is wrong? Does cmd /c setup.exe work? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Setup.exe - pending view does not show all pending packages

2013-05-17 Thread Andy Koppe
On 17 May 2013 14:10, David Balažic wrote: > Hi! > > If I start Setup.exe v2.774 on a PC where cygwin is already installed > and I select to install new package (not yet installed), then the > Pending view only shows this selected package and misses all the other > pending packages (they would be u

Re: setup.exe and cntlm proxy

2012-08-11 Thread Pawel Jasinski
hi, patch attached. What are the chances to get it into official setup release? Cheers, Pawel On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Pawel Jasinski wrote: > hi, > > does anybody use cntlm proxy with cygwin setup.exe? > I have tried it and looks a bit strange. > First of all, cntlm proxy with browser w

Re: setup.exe fails on Windows 7 - please help

2012-07-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 20 08:53, Paul Maier wrote: > Hi, > > setup.exe brings hundreds of identical popups with error message: > > bash.exe: > The application could not be started (0xc00d). *) > > All the .exe files are there in the bin folder, but when I double click on > bash.exe or any other .exe, > I

Re: setup.exe, dependencies, and 'keep' mode

2011-11-10 Thread szgyg
On 11/9/2011 11:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, There's a somewhat annoying behavior in setup.exe when installing packages in 'keep' mode: all dependencies selected by things which would have been installed in 'Curr' mode still try to download. Often I can tell that they're spurious and just

Re: setup.exe, dependencies, and 'keep' mode

2011-11-10 Thread szgyg
On 11/9/2011 11:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, There's a somewhat annoying behavior in setup.exe when installing packages in 'keep' mode: all dependencies selected by things which would have been installed in 'Curr' mode still try to download. Often I can tell that they're spurious and just

Re: setup.exe, dependencies, and 'keep' mode

2011-11-09 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/9/2011 5:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: There's a somewhat annoying behavior in setup.exe when installing packages in 'keep' mode: all dependencies selected by things which would have been installed in 'Curr' mode still try to download. Often I can It's a setup.hint "bug". While setup.exe do

RE: setup.exe: force installation of specific package versions?

2011-10-05 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Andrew Schulman sent the following at Wednesday, October 05, 2011 12:01 PM >I run setup unattended as e.g. > >setup.exe --quiet-mode --packages aria2,atool,autoconf,... > >This works great, except for one thing: There are some packages for >which the "current" versions are broken, at least for me,

Re: setup.exe: force installation of specific package versions?

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> >There are some packages for which > >the "current" versions are broken, at least for me, so I want to keep the > >"prev" or some other already-installed version of the package. Is there a > >way to specify in the setup invocation that I want a particular version of > >a particular package? > >

Re: setup.exe: force installation of specific package versions?

2011-10-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 12:00:43PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >I run setup unattended as e.g. > >setup.exe --quiet-mode --packages aria2,atool,autoconf,... > >This works great, except for one thing: There are some packages for which >the "current" versions are broken, at least for me, so I want

Re: setup.exe considerations (was: Doubtful about unison)

2011-03-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I think it would be entirely reasonable to record the version you > built against as the minimum requirement, as you couldn't be expected > to test against older libraries as well. Wanting to use latest Unison > with an old Cygwin DLL is a case of having your cake and eating it, > it's just that

Re: setup.exe considerations (was: Doubtful about unison)

2011-03-02 Thread Andy Koppe
On 1 March 2011 14:04, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> >> Which is the problem: the unison command was compiled against a newer >> >> cygwin1.dll than yours. >> > >> > To be fair, setup.exe ought to be able to resolve or warn about such >> > version dependencies. Unfortunately the infrastructure for that

Re: setup.exe considerations

2011-03-01 Thread Olivier Lefevre
On 3/1/2011 1:46 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: Good idea, although that would entail unnecessary (and unwanted) updates, for example, the Cygwin DLL would get updated whatever package you installed, even if the package was built years ago. Indeed and upgrading Cygwin itself is the very thing I was tryi

Re: setup.exe considerations (was: Doubtful about unison)

2011-03-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
> >> Which is the problem: the unison command was compiled against a newer > >> cygwin1.dll than yours. > > > > To be fair, setup.exe ought to be able to resolve or warn about such > > version dependencies. Unfortunately the infrastructure for that isn't > > in place, as it would require version r

Re: setup.exe considerations (was: Doubtful about unison)

2011-03-01 Thread Andy Koppe
On 1 March 2011 10:57, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 01.03.2011 08:20, schrieb Andy Koppe: >> On 28 February 2011 19:52, Matthias Andree wrote: > >>> Which is the problem: the unison command was compiled against a newer >>> cygwin1.dll than yours. >> >> To be fair, setup.exe ought to be able to resol

Re: setup.exe thinks it has no internet

2010-11-20 Thread covici
* From: Greg Chicares * To: cygwin at cygwin dot com * Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:23:02 + * Subject: Re: setup.exe thinks it has no internet * References: <01cb8898$8735d610$95a182...@covici.

Re: setup.exe thinks it has no internet

2010-11-20 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2010-11-20 09:51Z, John Covici wrote: > Hi. I am trying to install Cygwin on a vmware fusion virtual machine and > unlike any other program on the vm the setup.exe thinks it has no internet, > so it won't download the mirrors list nor if I type in one by hand will it > get any information. htt

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