Re: [patch/rebase] Improve peflags

2011-06-21 Thread Chris January
- fprintf (f, "Copyright (c) 2009 Charles Wilson, Dave Korn, Jason Tishler\n"); + fprintf (f, "Copyright (c) 2009, 2011 Charles Wilson, Dave Korn, Jason Tishler\n"); May I suggest if you are updating the copyright notice you also add "et al." to the list of names (since you are now a contri

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-23 Thread Chris January
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:45:07 -0400, ABCD wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Also, as far as I can tell, there is no remembering of anything going on >> now. The buttons are off by default. Is that right or am I missing >> something

Re: [Preliminary Patch] setup.exe size/position restore on startup

2009-05-15 Thread Chris January
Hello Jonathon, On Wed, 13 May 2009 21:59:38 -0400, Jonathon Merz wrote: > Hello, > > Per Dave Korn's suggestion in: >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00208.html >- If setup.exe exits while in a maximized state, it will be > maximized on next startup, and recall it's la

New procps-3.2.7 for upload

2007-01-07 Thread Chris January
Hello, I have finally packaged a new version of procps that fixes the incorrect page size bug. http://www.avocado.plus.com/procps-3.2.7/procps-3.2.7-1-bin.tar.bz2 http://www.avocado.plus.com/procps-3.2.7/procps-3.2.7-1-src.tar.bz2 Cheers, Chris

Re: New procps 3.2.6 release

2006-04-04 Thread Chris January
> On Apr 4 13:56, Chris January wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have packaged a new version of procps that fixes the bug that > > Corinna found in top and also tracks the latest upstream version. I > > have tweaked setup.hint slightly to have a shorter

New procps 3.2.6 release

2006-04-04 Thread Chris January
Hello, I have packaged a new version of procps that fixes the bug that Corinna found in top and also tracks the latest upstream version. I have tweaked setup.hint slightly to have a shorter 'long' description. http://www.avocado.plus.com/procps-3.2.6/ Cheers, Chris

Re: 'top' command always reports 0.0% cpu usage

2006-02-17 Thread Chris January
On 17/02/06, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Feb 16 15:56, Manuel Gonzalez Montoya wrote: > > All, > > > > I just installed the lastest cygwin version on an XP Professional > > SP2 machine and noticed the output of the top command always reports > > wrong info (0.

Re: 1st summary (was Re: [HEADSUP] ALL Maintainers, please reply.)

2005-09-21 Thread Chris January
> procps I'm still maintaining this. (I've been having problems sending to the list.) Chris

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-28 Thread Chris January
Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Chris January Sent: 28 June 2005 12:06 You can use AttachConsole (ATTACH_PARENT_PROCESS) to attach to the parent process console. If the parent process does not have a console the call will fail and you can popup a message box instead. IMHO

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-28 Thread Chris January
Brian Dessent wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Oh, that reminds me, --no-md5 is broken, I just noticed the other day - gotta look at that too. It's not broken, it doesn't exist any more. Hehe. While we're at it, would you like to make setup print out a list of its command-line options,

FW: new setup for testing

2005-05-23 Thread Chris January
Oops - wrong list. > Brian Dessent wrote: > > "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > > > > > >>>The column headers disappear partially when switching back from full > >>>screen view to normal view, see attached screenshot. > >> > >>It works at first, breaks after using the radio buttons one time, e.g. > >>swi

RE: New procps release

2005-02-26 Thread Chris January
> On Feb 21 21:21, Chris January wrote: > > I've finally found time to update the procps package. The > new version > > is based off procps 3.2.5 from procps.sourceforge.net. > > > > Download links: > > http://www.atomice.com/downloads/procps-3.2.5

New procps release

2005-02-21 Thread Chris January
I've finally found time to update the procps package. The new version is based off procps 3.2.5 from procps.sourceforge.net. Download links: http://www.atomice.com/downloads/procps-3.2.5-1-bin.tar.bz2 http://www.atomice.com/downloads/procps-3.2.5-1-src.tar.bz2 The only Cygwin specific change in t

RE: cygwin 1.5.10: ImageMagick 6.0.3 binaries fail

2004-08-11 Thread Chris January
> Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > > Okay, it is fixed now. There is a 6.0.4 version that is > posted. The > > release notes explain the source of the problem (read: me). > > > > In addition, I installed jasper, lcms, and libfpx so > support for these > > was compiled in. ImageMagick doesn't seem

RE: cygwin 1.5.10: ImageMagick 6.0.3 binaries fail

2004-08-10 Thread Chris January
> I just updated my cygwin and related apps to the latest > versions using the setup.exe tool. Things seemed to be > working fine before the update, but now I have trouble > running any ImageMagick tools. > > For example, the following command and resulting error: > $ convert a.jpg b.png > >

RE: A new method of storing package data base information, proposing packages, and announcing updates

2004-05-04 Thread Chris January
> Anyway, is this crackrock? Good stuff? Suggest any tweaks? This looks great. It would be good if the site could subscribe to the cygwin-apps mailing list and parse replies to the initial announcement so they also got included on the website. Chris

RE: ANNOUNCE: cygbug - generic bug reporting tool (like Debian reportbug)

2004-03-25 Thread Chris January
> * Tue 2004-03-23 Christopher Faylor > > public.gmane.org> > * > | On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:10:03PM +0200, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: > | > | >It can be used to deliver messages to upstream developers concerning > | >cygwin related bugs. It can also be used to send patches to other > | >Cugw

Problem uninstalling XFree86-bin-icons

2003-10-02 Thread Chris January
Setup (2.415) hangs when uninstalling XFree86-bin-icons. What can I do to find out why? Chris -- http://www.atomice.com

RE: GIFs in the tcm binary package

2003-09-29 Thread Chris January
> > Where does this patent apply? The relevant patent expired in the US and > > software patents are not (yet) valid in member countries in the EU. > > It's still valid in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. > According to their site, at least. > > I don't think you are infringing

RE: Setup uninstall order

2003-09-29 Thread Chris January
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Chris January wrote: > > > AFAICT uninstall of existing packages in Setup is done in an > arbitrary (or > > possible alphabetical) order. Uninstall needs to be done in the reverse > > order of package dependancies (if that makes sense) if it is

RE: GIFs in the tcm binary package

2003-09-29 Thread Chris January
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:31:23PM +0200, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote: > > Hi Ronald, > > > > Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just downloaded the binary package and found a lot of GIF files in > > > them. I was wondering whether they were LZW-compressed: `file' > > > do

Setup uninstall order

2003-09-29 Thread Chris January
AFAICT uninstall of existing packages in Setup is done in an arbitrary (or possible alphabetical) order. Uninstall needs to be done in the reverse order of package dependancies (if that makes sense) if it is to succeed. i.e. if you build a dependancy graph/tree of all the packages, then the leaves

RE: Two versions of uptime, one in procps-010801-2 and one in sh-utils-2.0-3

2003-01-08 Thread Chris January
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 01:00:55AM -0000, Chris January wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:56:49AM +0100, Volker Zell wrote: > >The original binary (from sh-utils-2.0.15-1) failed on my machine, > > There is no uptime.exe in sh-utils-2.0.15-1. > > >but w

RE: Two versions of uptime, one in procps-010801-2 and one in sh-utils-2.0-3

2003-01-04 Thread Chris January
sion of sh-utils based on the port available > at alpha.gnu.org. It removes uptime.exe but that means that uptime.exe > will be completely gone from your system after updating to this version > of sh-utils. > > I wonder if Chris January would mind either making a new release of >

RE: [list] Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload. (fwd)

2002-11-09 Thread Chris January
> > I'm too lazy to send 2 URLs:-) > > I suppose because of the overwealmingly positive response we > can make an exception... > > > > > While I really like the idea of having an init running, I don't > > > > think that simply selecting the package should make it install as a > > > > service with t

qt package for Cygwin [was RE: Doxygen]

2002-10-05 Thread Chris January
> Cygwin has qt 2.3 package? > I can't see qt2.3 in the list of setup.exe. http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net Chris

RE: Doxygen

2002-10-05 Thread Chris January
> Do you have a reason to avoid a patch like this ? > > Then again - you do not define D_WIN32 only for qtools subdir, but also > for the src subdir. This means that anycode in the main doxygen > body which > has #ifdef _WIN32 clause in it will choose to use the "wrong" branch. > > Or if you real

procps packages not showing up in Setup

2002-09-26 Thread Chris January
The procps packages that were uploaded to sourceware don't seem to be showing up in Cygwin Setup. I've verified the packages are actually there on sources.redhat.com and they have also shown up on the mirrors. However they are not available to select in Cygwin Setup and Setup doesn't download them

RE: Package review status

2002-09-25 Thread Chris January
> >>>*Updated* packages are trusted by default. They can be uploaded w/o > >>>review. > >>> > >>> > >Not being funny, but this probably shouldn't be the case. I could easily > >spoof some mail headers and get a compromised binary uploaded. > > > Then I suggest you (and other that find in this a s

RE: Package review status

2002-09-25 Thread Chris January
> > *Updated* packages are trusted by default. They can be uploaded w/o > > review. Not being funny, but this probably shouldn't be the case. I could easily spoof some mail headers and get a compromised binary uploaded. I think there should probably be a more thorough review process than there i

RE: updated procps package

2002-09-21 Thread Chris January
> > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/procps-010801/procps-010801-2.tar.bz2 > > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/procps-010801/procps-010801-2-src.tar.bz2 > > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/procps-010801/setup.hint > > Uploaded. Please drop the version field in setup.hint. I changed > that on sourcew

updated procps package

2002-09-20 Thread Chris January
I've updated the procps package. This includes a one-line fix that takes into account the fact that the major device number of ttys on Cygwin is 5, as opposed to 4 on Linux. Along with a patch currently in the pipeline for the Cygwin /proc stuff, this should mean that ps reports the correct tty fo

RE: procps

2002-09-18 Thread Chris January
> > > I'm submitting this again with the changes suggested by > Nicholas. Note the > > > problems Nicholas encountered where because he ran the utilities > > > on Windows > > > ME - the /proc stuff doesn't fully work on Windows 95/98/Me. > (That's the > > > /proc implementation, not these utiltiie

RE: FW: top and other /proc utilities available for Cygwin

2002-09-11 Thread Chris January
> [snip] > > > If the values you are seeing in the procps utilities don't look like the > > ones on your Linux box, this is probably an indication of a bug and > > should be reported to the cygwin-apps mailing list. > > Chris, I've reported this to the cygwin-apps list but got no response at > a

RE: procps

2002-09-09 Thread Chris January
> I'm submitting this again with the changes suggested by Nicholas. Note the > problems Nicholas encountered where because he ran the utilities > on Windows > ME - the /proc stuff doesn't fully work on Windows 95/98/Me. (That's the > /proc implementation, not these utiltiies, which should work if

procps

2002-08-31 Thread Chris January
I'm submitting this again with the changes suggested by Nicholas. Note the problems Nicholas encountered where because he ran the utilities on Windows ME - the /proc stuff doesn't fully work on Windows 95/98/Me. (That's the /proc implementation, not these utiltiies, which should work if the /proc

RE: procps-010801 package

2002-08-27 Thread Chris January
> >Ok, anybody looked into this and/or votes for inclusion? > > > >Corinna > > > > I've checked it out, and it installs fine. I'd be wary about using a > lowercase "c" in /usr/doc/cygwin [should be /usr/doc/Cygwin], but I > think someone already mentioned this. After installing, I tried some of

procps-010801 package

2002-08-26 Thread Chris January
I'm resubmitting this because AFAIK I've resolved all outstanding issues with the package and nothing's happened since then. --- .tar.bz2's and setup.hint can be found here: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/procps-010801/ setup.hint: sdesc: "Utilities for monitoring your system and processes on yo

procps

2002-08-20 Thread Chris January
Are there any outstanding issues with the procps package that are preventing it from being included in the net release? Chris

Re: vmstat

2002-07-04 Thread Chris January
> >Hello Chris, > > > >Wednesday, July 03, 2002, 12:21:42 AM, you wrote: > > > >CJ> Will this package actually appear on the mirrors in future or are there > > > >CJ> issues I am not aware of preventing this from happening? > > > >Have you tried running the proc

Re: Re[2]: vmstat

2002-07-04 Thread Chris January
> >>> Hello Chris, > >>> > >>> Wednesday, July 03, 2002, 12:21:42 AM, you wrote: > >>> > >>> CJ> Will this package actually appear on the mirrors in future or are > >>there > >>> CJ> issues I am not aware of preventing this from happening? > >>> > >>> Have you tried running the procps tools on cur

Re: Re[6]: vmstat

2002-07-04 Thread Chris January
> CJ> uptime reads the /proc files regardless of what options you pass. > > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { > if(argc == 1) print_uptime(); > if((argc == 2) && (!strcmp(argv[1], "-V"))) display_version(); > return 0; > } > > How ? Try re-compiling with print_uptime commented out. Notice h

Re: Re[4]: vmstat

2002-07-04 Thread Chris January
> Hello Chris, > > Thursday, July 04, 2002, 2:52:59 PM, you wrote: > > CJ> This is caused by the default alignment changing from 4 bytes to 8 bytes, as > CJ> far as i can tell. Basically the size of structure passed to the NT system > CJ> calls is not the size of structure the call expects, so it

Re: Re[2]: vmstat

2002-07-04 Thread Chris January
> Hello Chris, > > Wednesday, July 03, 2002, 12:21:42 AM, you wrote: > > CJ> Will this package actually appear on the mirrors in future or are there > CJ> issues I am not aware of preventing this from happening? > > Have you tried running the procps tools on current stock dll > (1.3.12-1) ? For me

Re: Re[2]: vmstat

2002-07-04 Thread Chris January
> Hello Chris, > > Wednesday, July 03, 2002, 12:21:42 AM, you wrote: > > CJ> Will this package actually appear on the mirrors in future or are there > CJ> issues I am not aware of preventing this from happening? > > Have you tried running the procps tools on current stock dll > (1.3.12-1) ? For me

Re: vmstat

2002-07-02 Thread Chris January
> > Ok. Do you have any thoughts on where I should put ps.exe and kill.exe? > > > I ended up renaming 'clear.exe' from the ncurses dist to 'clearn.exe' to > avoid conflicts with the 'clear' package. (In ncurses, 'clear.exe' is > not a 'test' program, so it didn't go into bin/ncurses-test-*/; it w

Re: vmstat

2002-06-27 Thread Chris January
> > Ok. Do you have any thoughts on where I should put ps.exe and kill.exe? > > > I ended up renaming 'clear.exe' from the ncurses dist to 'clearn.exe' to > avoid conflicts with the 'clear' package. (In ncurses, 'clear.exe' is > not a 'test' program, so it didn't go into bin/ncurses-test-*/; it w

Re: vmstat

2002-06-27 Thread Chris January
> >>PLEASE do not differentiate between /bin and /usr/bin. This caused no > >>end of trouble during the early days of setup.exe when setup didn't > >>*always* follow the mounts. Granted, setup is much better about that > >>sort of thing now, but don't tempt fate. > >> > >>There's no need for sep

Re: vmstat

2002-06-27 Thread Chris January
> > If it overwrites it, then I have packaged it wrongly. It should put ps.exe > > and kill.exe into separate subdirectories, i.e. /bin/procps/ps.exe and > > /usr/bin/procps/kill.exe. > > > PLEASE do not differentiate between /bin and /usr/bin. This caused no > end of trouble during the early day

procps

2002-06-26 Thread Chris January
Following the recent introduction of /proc to Cygwin, I have ported the Linux procps utilities to Cygwin. This is my first package submission, so please don't flame me too hotly if I've done something wrong. .tar.bz2's and setup.hint can be found here: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/procps-010801