Re: Up for adoption: ctags and expat

2016-08-12 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 12, 2016, at 7:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Cool! If you want to take over ctags and test universal ctags for > Cygwin, feel free if Warren agrees. I'll change over maintainership > then. > > Warren, does that sound good to you? > > Doug, I hope you don't feel overlooked. Exp

Up for adoption: ctags and expat

2016-08-11 Thread Warren Young
I’m the current maintainer of these two packages. As it happens, I have never seriously used either under Cygwin. I only adopted ctags because it was abandoned in 2003 and was in danger of being removed from the distribution after repeated attempts to contact its maintainer in 2005 failed. Since

Re: [RFC] Removing .la files from x86

2016-08-02 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 2, 2016, at 9:09 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > Any objections? This script would need to consult the same package database cygcheck uses to find out if an installed Cygwin package owns each *.la file it proposes to remove. It should not remove any other *.la file just because it happ

Re: [ITP] words - Dictionary file

2016-07-14 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 14, 2016, at 10:23 AM, David Stacey wrote: > >> the words package is more likely to be useful for any modern purpose. > > So are you happy for me to upload the 'words' package as it is at the moment? To the extent that I am a gatekeeper, sure. I think the real question is whether anyone

Re: [ITP] words - Dictionary file

2016-07-14 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 13, 2016, at 7:30 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > >> This needs to be coordinated with Warren's proposal: >> >> https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-07/msg00015.html >> > the two packages seem to provide different word lists. Yes. The ‘words’ package’s source is the Moby Project, relea

Re: ITA: GNU miscfiles

2016-07-14 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 13, 2016, at 7:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > when using dodoc it should better point to the source file The problem is that the GNU-manifesto file is installed, but in the wrong location, IMHO. I was hoping that dodoc would be smart enough to realize that I’m asking it to relocate

Re: ITA: GNU miscfiles

2016-07-14 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 13, 2016, at 6:58 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > > On 7/13/2016 7:05 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jul 12 11:06, Warren Young wrote: >>> CATEGORY=Misc > > This is not a legal category. Sorry, I used it because setup.exe shows that as a category here. But on

Re: ITA: GNU miscfiles

2016-07-12 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 12, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > NAME=miscfiles > VERSION=1.5 > RELEASE=1 Late addition: ARCH=noarch

ITA: GNU miscfiles

2016-07-12 Thread Warren Young
Per https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00160.html …I would like to adopt the GNU miscfiles package. I have constructed the following cygport file, which seems to do the trick: NAME=miscfiles VERSION=1.5 RELEASE=1 SUMMARY="Miscellaneous data files" HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/m

Bug in fontconfig postinstall script: spaces in *.ttf

2016-06-09 Thread Warren Young
The zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh postinstall script links all *.ttf fonts in $(cygpath -W)/Fonts that contain “Microsoft Corp” into /usr/share/fonts/microsoft. This script creates broken links when such a font contains a space in its filename, as happens with SketchFlow\ Print.ttf on my system. T

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] ARCH=noarch uploads with cygport 0.22.0

2016-06-06 Thread Warren Young
On Jun 6, 2016, at 4:23 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > So far we have managed to reduce the download area by 20% (16.8 GiB) Nice! > which is great progress The next step, of course, is allowing multi-arch packages, so you can upload the -doc subpackage as noarch and the binary subpackages as

Re: [RFC] /etc/shells management (fish, mksh, posh, tcsh, zsh)

2016-05-12 Thread Warren Young
On May 12, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > What are the consequences of having shells listed in /etc/shells which aren't > on the system? That file is a security feature, but the typical way Cygwin works — i.e. that normal users are allowed to install software, modify /etc/*, and

Re: [ITP] cloudabi-toolchain, cloudab-binutils-*

2016-03-29 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 29, 2016, at 12:35 PM, Maurice Bos wrote: > > The setup.hint files: > > category: Devel > requires: clang cloudabi-binutils-aarch64 cloudabi-binutils-x86_64 > sdesc: "Toolchain targetting CloudABI" > ldesc: "Toolchain targetting CloudABI” Why does this package depend on both architectur

Re: [SECURITY] cygwin32-expat, mingw64-$arch-expat, etc.

2016-03-19 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 16, 2016, at 2:32 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On 2016-03-16 14:28, Warren Young wrote: >> expat 2.1.1 fixes MEDIUM-rated CVE-2015-1283. I’ve uploaded the regular >> expat 2.1.1 packages, but the cross-development packages maintained by >> Yaakov are all at 2.1

Re: [ITP] procps-ng

2016-03-19 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 16, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Wayne Porter wrote: > > It contains free, kill, pkill, pgrep, pmap, ps, pwdx, slabtop, sysctl, > tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch” Is the intention for this to replace the current procps package, or to be an alternative? If the latter, that leaves us wantin

[SECURITY] cygwin32-expat, mingw64-$arch-expat, etc.

2016-03-18 Thread Warren Young
expat 2.1.1 fixes MEDIUM-rated CVE-2015-1283. I’ve uploaded the regular expat 2.1.1 packages, but the cross-development packages maintained by Yaakov are all at 2.1.0. Some appear to have 2.1.1 alternate versions available

Re: [ITP] libSBML-5.12.0-core and moose-3.0.2

2016-03-07 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 5, 2016, at 6:22 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen writes: >> More important to me is that the maintainer-to-be subscribes to the >> cygwin user mailing list as well as the cygwin-apps maintainer mailing >> list and promises to scna the list for user problems with his/her >> pack

Re: [ITP] The Silver Searcher / Ag

2016-02-23 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 23, 2016, at 7:42 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > I'm looking at packaging The Silver Searcher, aka Ag. That would be lovely! I’ve been building it from source since I discovered it, about a year ago. (Anyone still using grep -R on a source tree really should switch to ag!)

Re: Changing Setup's license to GPLv3+

2016-01-22 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 22, 2016, at 9:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 21 15:55, Warren Young wrote: >> On Jan 21, 2016, at 3:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen >> wrote: >>> >>> does anything speak against switching Setup's license to GPLv3+? >>> If

Re: Changing Setup's license to GPLv3+

2016-01-21 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 21, 2016, at 3:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > does anything speak against switching Setup's license to GPLv3+? > If nobody complains, I'll bump to v3+ in a week or so. Can you actually do that, legally? I thought the copyright assignments only applied to the DLL, not to setup.exe, s

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

2015-10-23 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 23, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On Linux, 'man readdir' gets you readdir(2) (the kernel system call), > which promptly states: > >This is not the function you are interested in. Look at readdir(3) >for the POSIX conforming C library interface. Interesting, but i

Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

2015-10-22 Thread Warren Young
Several gawk module manual pages (fnmatch, fork, readdir, and time(3am)) currently shadow pages of the same name in section 3p, owned by man-pages-posix. These are currently dumped into the generic man3 directory, which causes them to take precedence over 3p because of this line in /etc/man_db

Re: setup.exe not logging on Windows 10 with MS accounts

2015-10-16 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 15, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > Achim Gratz noted that my default permissions may be weird because I am > running with a Microsoft Account rather than a local one. I just poked a hole in that theory last night: I have a Windows 8 VM at home that also uses a M

setup.exe not logging on Windows 10 with MS accounts

2015-10-15 Thread Warren Young
In another thread [1] I discovered that setup.exe hasn’t logged anything to /var/log/setup.log since November 2014, despite running it occasionally during that time. I have ruled out permission problems, since I can write to that file as both a normal user and from an admin shell. The latter s

Re: setup

2015-08-11 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 11, 2015, at 1:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 10 09:02, Warren Young wrote: > >> If you mean that it always copies itself to some kind of temp space >> and execs it from there, that feels kind of wasteful > > ...the restart part is done alread

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 10, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > >> There have been a bunch of attempts in the past at replacing >> setup.exe. At least 3, that I can think of. All have fizzled. > > These were? The Debian and Red Hat packaging systems have both been ported to Cygwin. Those could be used alo

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 10, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Warren Young writes: >> Isn’t the whole point of this discussion that setup.exe already knows >> all the tricks it needs to in order to do what we want here, except >> for the “replace setup.exe in place” issue I’

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 10, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Warren Young writes: > >> In that sense, setup.exe is already bootstrapped: it has everything >> within itself to be able to replace itself. > > I do like the concept of a self-contained executable, but teachin

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Warren Young
> On Aug 7 15:05, Warren Young wrote: >> >> You’d have to couple this either with a MoveFileEx(…, >> MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT) call or a background task that replaces >> /bin/setup.exe with %LOCALAPPDATA%/Temp/setup-v$next.exe. > > Why? I was assuming a wo

Re: setup

2015-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 7, 2015, at 11:22 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > > a minimal Cygwin install system w/ busybox Busybox isn’t going to be usable in its normal sense without cygwin1.dll to map symlinks to argv[0] so that Busybox can tell how it was called, and thus which function to provide. But that’s a side

Re: setup

2015-08-07 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 7, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 6 17:57, Achim Gratz wrote: >> >> I would consider this a release candidate. Some more testing with >> interactive and ad-hoc installs would be useful, though. > > I have a vague idea that setup should ideally be part of the Cygwi

Re: missing 64bit ports

2015-07-15 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 15, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > - Shall we remove all 32b-bit only orphaned packages for which we don't > get a maintainer until, say, end of August? If a package is available only for 32-bit, there should be a place to learn that prior to running setup.exe. The fac

Re: missing 64bit ports

2015-07-15 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 15, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Marcos Vives Del Sol wrote: > > Reason I didn't port libnfc was because I lost my SSH key due to a > hard drive crash. Any procedure on how to get a new one so I can > compile and upload it? $ ssh-keygen I assume those in charge of maintaining the list of allowed k

Re: missing 64bit ports

2015-07-15 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 15, 2015, at 8:24 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > I spent a bit of time checking the real situation of the packages > still missing as 64 bit port. Thank you for doing this research. > ...we are down to ~44. > ...half of them are dead upstream so we can directly > obsolete and don't worry an

Re: [HEADSUP] Dropping libopenssl098 from distro

2015-04-20 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 20, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote: > > the machine I had access to disappeared a month ago and I've been scrambling > to get another one. VirtualBox and the Windows 10 Technical Preview are free, and they run Cygwin just fine. :)

Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies [GOLDSTARS]

2015-03-04 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 03/04/2015 02:41 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >>> Huh? The plush hippos are always pink! >> >> Awarded! http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#CV > > Should I get anything for taking the orphaned > grep/gperf/bison/diffutils/gzip when cgf left? Yes

Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies [GOLDSTARS]

2015-03-03 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 3, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 3 13:23, Warren Young wrote: >> On Mar 3, 2015, at 2:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen >> wrote: >>> >>> Now that we have so many goldstars in circulation, maybe we can >>> finally use it as n

Re: HEADSUP: Packages with obsolete dependencies [GOLDSTARS]

2015-03-03 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 3, 2015, at 2:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Now that we have so many goldstars in circulation, maybe we can > finally use it as new currency? > > Hey, shall we move from goldstars to plush hippos? The standard solution is higher denominations. So, we need platinum, rhodium, and ur

Re: [HEADSUP] Moving setup sources to git

2015-02-09 Thread Warren Young
> On Feb 9, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > I just created a git repo for setup: About blinkin’ time. But it should have been Fossil. ;)

Re: cmake update needed

2015-02-04 Thread Warren Young
> On Feb 4, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Tony Kelman wrote: > >> Happy to adopt it. > > BASEURL=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8244638/cygwin-cmake By “adopt,” you are offering to participate in the package contribution system, which involves a bit more than just putting tarballs in a shared Dropbo

Re: User manual cleanup

2014-12-11 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 11, 2014, at 3:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 10 16:34, Warren Young wrote: >> I kind of thought I’d been kicked off that project, after leaving the >> autodep stuff hanging. :) > > I'd never have kicked you out. Contrary to that, I was disappoi

Re: [HEADSUP] Base category

2014-12-10 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 10, 2014, at 4:05 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> It boggles my mind how much is in the Cygwin package repository, and >> then how much more is in Ports. To some extent, this has to be a >> reflection of Sturgeon’s Law. [2] > > Isn't that the same for all distros? Cygwin has just a few t

Re: [HEADSUP] Base category

2014-12-09 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 9, 2014, at 3:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 8 15:28, Warren Young wrote: >> >> I’ve got in mind the 2-3 times in my memory where Perl has crept into >> the minimal install set via some indirect dependency. > > I still don't grok why everybo

Re: [HEADSUP] Base category

2014-12-08 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 6, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Also, can we automate this? If you’re suggesting an automatic promotion of package to Base, I’d argue for the opposite: automatic detection of dependency creep. I’ve got in mind the 2-3 times in my memory where Perl has crept into the mini

apache2 package should depend on libapr1-devel and libaprutil1-devel

2014-05-07 Thread Warren Young
I know it sounds strange, but the httpd2-config script that comes with Cygwin's apache2 package calls apr-1-config and apu-1-config, which live in the -devel packages, being pkg-config type tools. Another solution would be to extract these *-config scripts into separate packages, and make them

Re: Package categorization inconsistencies

2014-01-24 Thread Warren Young
On 1/24/2014 02:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Nothing to worry about I guess. I posted mainly for the maintainers, who may want to change their setup.hint files before their next upload.

Package categorization inconsistencies

2014-01-21 Thread Warren Young
While doing my "how big is a full Cygwin installation" research[*], I came across some inconsistencies in package categorization: perl_debuginfo: Not in the Debug category. It is also the only package named *_debuginfo instead of *-debuginfo cdrkit-doc, fftw33-doc, flac-docs, gsl-doc, gtk-d

Re: [ITA] tcl-sqlite3

2014-01-14 Thread Warren Young
On 1/13/2014 03:57, Jan Nijtmans wrote: I assume someone (other than Warren Young) uploaded it as part of the Cygwin64 bootstrap process. Yep, not me. Probably Yaakov. I'm not sure if a GTG is needed from another package maintainer, If you've written a new .cygport file, I

Re: [ITA] tcl-sqlite3

2014-01-14 Thread Warren Young
On 1/14/2014 05:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Also, even if sqlite3.8.2 and sqlite382.dll works, it's kind of puzzeling. Are you saying using sqlite3 and libtclsqlite3.so on Fedora is wrong, not following TEA? It's much easier to grok and doesn't wrongly imply it only works on a specificx sqlite

Re: [ITA] sqlite3

2013-11-15 Thread Warren Young
On 11/15/2013 06:38, Warren Young wrote: On 11/14/2013 12:27, Christopher Faylor wrote: Jan, if you can send the information at the above link now, you'll be GTG for uploading as soon as the package has been pronounced GTG by Warrent. GTG. I tested by unpacking the 3 main packages (exe

Re: [ITA] sqlite3

2013-11-15 Thread Warren Young
On 11/14/2013 12:27, Christopher Faylor wrote: Jan, if you can send the information at the above link now, you'll be GTG for uploading as soon as the package has been pronounced GTG by Warrent. Jan sent me a link to his proposed packages, which I looked at briefly, but they've disappeared. W

Re: [ITA] sqlite3

2013-11-13 Thread Warren Young
On 11/13/2013 08:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 04:03:40PM +0100, Jan Nijtmans wrote: I would like to adopt sqlite3. I've packaged the latest release. I don't think the package is in need of adoption. Warren Young is still around and active, AFAICT. Jan ha

Re: libtool ../bin hack for cyg*.dll not working

2013-10-14 Thread Warren Young
On 10/14/2013 01:47, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2013-10-11 23:52, Warren Young wrote: $ make libsqlite3.la $ ./libtool --mode=install install libsqlite3.la /usr/local/lib Works just fine for me. Thanks for testing. It turned out to be something screwed up in the local build system. A

SSH key for upload access

2013-10-14 Thread Warren Young
Name: Warren Young Package: sqlite3 SSHkey: ssh-rsa B3NzaC1yc2EBIwAAAQEAqBYtYozG/QWEHiPmTjomT2Q6gTf5mqCxonE5JoG7HJljb4dGColaOhv1rgDjctARI5ESkXOHhhcAHt25S/gZM21+MrBYjqar9eUm3q6yXlc+XLQiNrMpfOduFuKQAWMm4d6wE0KH3iU8DUfSxXc3n8tHIYhdJc7/x3qEwS59PqhOe9hA6OV+8Sf

libtool ../bin hack for cyg*.dll not working

2013-10-11 Thread Warren Young
libtool has long had a hack that causes it to install cyg*.dll into bindir instead of libdir by appending "/../bin" to the end of the installation directory. While trying to get SQLite 3.8.1 working on Cygwin, I've found that this isn't working any more. (It did work in SQLite 3.7.17.) I've

Re: libevent-2.0.21

2013-10-04 Thread Warren Young
On 10/4/2013 10:12, Chris Olin wrote: On 04/10/13 at 09:15am, Warren Young wrote: libevent is in Cygwin Ports to satisfy cyphertite, ocaml-libevent, and transmission. So, before adopting it, think about whether you want to place yourself in a blocking position for those packages, To clarify

Re: libevent-2.0.21

2013-10-04 Thread Warren Young
On 10/4/2013 09:07, Chris Olin wrote: is there a process to have it brought into Cygwin so then all that I really need to do is package tmux and send out an ITP? You can adopt the libevent package yourself, which relieves Yaakov -- who maintains Cygwin Ports -- of the burden of maintaining it.

Re: questions on using cygport, first steps

2013-09-11 Thread Warren Young
On 9/11/2013 10:01, Yue Ren wrote: $ cygport Singular-4-0-0.cygport compile Why did you start with 'compile'? I mean, what documentation did you read that lead you to believe that's the correct starting point? (I'm assuming you *did* RTFM: /usr/share/doc/cygport/manual.html.) The correct

Re: sqlite3

2013-08-23 Thread Warren Young
On 8/22/2013 23:54, Michael DeByl wrote: Sorry to be a pain Well, here's your pain returned: This should be on the main Cygwin mailing list, not the -apps list. :) (This list is for discussing the *packaging* of the Cygwin apps you use, not for discussing the use of them.) But since I dis

[RFU] expat-2.1.0-3

2013-07-31 Thread Warren Young
This release simply fixes the libexpat${abi}-devel naming problem brought up by Yaakov, using the new PKG_OBSOLETES feature of cygport. It includes no upstream release changes, because there haven't been any. From within x86/release/expat: wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=3 -np -nH -A'*2.1.0-3*'

Re: [RFC] cygport: PKG_OBSOLETES

2013-07-26 Thread Warren Young
On 7/25/2013 22:31, Warren Young wrote: On 7/25/2013 20:31, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2013-07-25 14:50, Warren Young wrote: I'll wait for this PKG_OBSOLETES feature to ship in Cygport, and be a guinea pig for it. It's in git master already. $ git clone gi

[RFU 64-bit] sqlite3-3.7.17-3

2013-07-25 Thread Warren Young
Leave 3.7.16.2-1 as curr. From within release/sqlite3: wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=2 -np -nH -A'*3.7.17-3*' -A'*.hint' \ -r http://etr-usa.com/cygwin64/sqlite3/ (These are the same as the 32-bit packages, released over a month ago. I just forgot to do the 64-bit ones after I decided t

Re: [RFC] cygport: PKG_OBSOLETES

2013-07-25 Thread Warren Young
On 7/25/2013 20:31, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2013-07-25 14:50, Warren Young wrote: I'll wait for this PKG_OBSOLETES feature to ship in Cygport, and be a guinea pig for it. It's in git master already. Cool. I will try to make use of this feature before your next release, but

Re: [RFC] cygport: PKG_OBSOLETES

2013-07-25 Thread Warren Young
On 7/25/2013 17:36, Ken Brown wrote: Here's your RFU: wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=2 -np -nH -A'*2.1.0-2*' -r \ http://etr-usa.com/cygwin64/expat/ Oh, it's one of *those*. My more recent RFUs include -A'*.hint' in the command. The *.hint files are all there on the server, if you want

Re: [RFC] cygport: PKG_OBSOLETES

2013-07-25 Thread Warren Young
On 7/25/2013 15:33, Ken Brown wrote: could you provide a setup.hint for libexpat1-devel (64 bit)? Without a setup.hint, it gets put into the Misc category and is then installed by default. I don't know what you're talking about. Here's the setup.hint I RFU'd: category: Libs requires: cygwin

Re: [RFC] cygport: PKG_OBSOLETES

2013-07-25 Thread Warren Young
On 7/25/2013 02:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 24 14:38, Warren Young wrote: On 7/24/2013 05:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 24 05:12, Warren Young wrote: You'd have to fake a -3 package set, with libexpat-devel-3 set to obsolete libexpat1-devel-2, so that package developers

Re: [RFC] cygport: PKG_OBSOLETES

2013-07-24 Thread Warren Young
On 7/24/2013 05:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 24 05:12, Warren Young wrote: You'd have to fake a -3 package set, with libexpat-devel-3 set to obsolete libexpat1-devel-2, so that package developers would automatically get new packages on their next Cygwin update. If you're wil

Re: [RFC] cygport: PKG_OBSOLETES

2013-07-24 Thread Warren Young
On 7/24/2013 04:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Regardless of libexpat1-devel supposedly being a bad choice of names, from the global distro perspective, it would be much easier to remove the libexpat-devel package from the 64 bit distro and go over the hint files manually for now. Doesn't the prob

Re: [RFC] cygport: PKG_OBSOLETES

2013-07-24 Thread Warren Young
On 7/23/2013 13:11, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: But libexpat1-devel is a BAD choice of name, You're only having a problem with -devel, right, not the library package proper? Does this .cygport file solve the problem? DESCRIPTION="Expat XML parser library" HOMEPAGE="http://expat.sourceforge.

Re: sqlite defect

2013-07-17 Thread Warren Young
On 7/17/2013 18:27, Christopher Faylor wrote: Why was this thread redirected to cygwin-apps? The thread started here, and I replied here. David Rothenberger tried to redirect it to the main list.

Re: sqlite defect

2013-07-17 Thread Warren Young
On 7/12/2013 12:49, fger...@gmx.de wrote: But since 3.7.17-3 I cannot read my databases any more "unable to open datase file". Without a test case, debugging this will amount to testing guesses. My first guess: try setting the new CYGWIN_SQLITE_LOCKING environment variable to "posix". That

Re: [RFU] sqlite3-3.7.17-3

2013-06-14 Thread Warren Young
On 6/14/2013 01:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 13 16:54, Warren Young wrote: Would someone flip this package from test to curr for me, please? Leave 3.7.16.2-1 as prev. Done. Thanks! Do you want to keep 3.7.13-1? I didn't know I could have more than one prev. Sure, let's

Re: [RFU] sqlite3-3.7.17-3

2013-06-13 Thread Warren Young
Would someone flip this package from test to curr for me, please? Leave 3.7.16.2-1 as prev.

Re: [RFC] cygport documentation

2013-06-13 Thread Warren Young
On 6/13/2013 13:50, Achim Gratz wrote: a tutorial or similarly styled explanation of how to use cygport, That, or a recipe format, or a FAQ format. That is, one that starts with "how", rather than "what". it would probably help if the "manual" was called a "reference" to tone the expectat

Re: [RFU] sqlite3-3.7.17-3

2013-06-11 Thread Warren Young
On 6/11/2013 01:37, marco atzeri wrote: you should make it test adding the relevant prev/current/test entries as specified on http://cygwin.com/setup.html Is there a way to set this via the .cygport file? I tried searching its HTML manual, and didn't find one. The alternative is to manua

[RFU] sqlite3-3.7.17-3

2013-06-10 Thread Warren Young
Leave 3.7.16.2-1 as curr, and make this test only for now. (I am hoping to be able to promote it to curr later, but it changes too much to risk that without more testing. The only reason I'm RFU'ing it is because there seems to be some resistance to installing test versions from raw tarballs.

Re: [RFC] vim-minimal in Base?

2013-05-14 Thread Warren Young
On 5/14/2013 04:19, Frank Fesevur wrote: Any thought other then fixing the symlink manually? I fixed it with "alias vi=vim" in my .bashrc. I've had to do that on assorted Linuxes before, too.

Re: [RFC] vim-minimal in Base?

2013-05-14 Thread Warren Young
On 5/13/2013 21:28, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: As these utilities are required by POSIX[1], should the vim-minimal package be added to Base? As long as when I install vim-kitchensink setup.exe knows how to quietly replace vim-minimal, I'm happy to see Vim in Base. Yes, truly happy. Gone are t

Re: New packages: Cygwin 32-to-64bit cross-compiler

2013-05-13 Thread Warren Young
On 5/10/2013 16:31, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I just uploaded a x86_64-pc-cygwin target cross-toolchain for the i686 distro together with ~70 sysrooted libraries. Spiffy. Is there work underway to make cygport understand how to generate 32- and 64-bit packages at the same time? Or even a feat

Re: cygport-0.12.0-1: too many arguments

2013-05-02 Thread Warren Young
On 5/2/2013 07:34, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: While packaging the 64bit version of Xfig and transfig I get the following errors from cygport. Stripping executables: usr/bin/xfig.exe /usr/share/cygport/lib/src_postinst.cygpart: line 860: [: too many arguments What do you get for $ he

Re: HELP with Cygwin docs needed

2013-04-24 Thread Warren Young
On 4/24/2013 12:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: So, if XInclude is not in the distro XInclude isn't a program, it's typically a feature of an XSLT processor. (It's not part of XSL or XSLT, so it could live elsewhere in some toolchains.) XInclude support has been in xsltproc since 2001, and xs

Re: HELP with Cygwin docs needed

2013-04-24 Thread Warren Young
Forgot to update the footnote references: On 4/24/2013 12:31, Warren Young wrote: probably switch from the nonstandard doctool to XIncludes. [1] The GNOME docs are split between DocBook XML and SGML[1]. [2]

Re: HELP with Cygwin docs needed

2013-04-24 Thread Warren Young
On 4/24/2013 11:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: - What is the advantage of changing the format? Actually, a bit more looking makes me wonder if the docs actually *are* still SGML. All the processing now seems to go through xmlto, rather than OpenJade. Without digging through the CVS history, I

Re: HELP with Cygwin docs needed

2013-04-24 Thread Warren Young
On 4/23/2013 09:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: does anybody know sgml and xmlto? I see that you've solved the problem, but maybe this is a good excuse to switch all these SGML files to DocBook XML (DBX)? I've taken a quick glance at this subtree. I think you can replace doctool with XInclude

Re: [RFU 64bit] sqlite3-3.7.16.2-1

2013-04-19 Thread Warren Young
On 4/19/2013 03:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Just a tiny hiccup: The sqlite3 package has libncurses10 in the "requires" line, but the 64bit release only provides libncursesw10. Just, FYI. Yaakov fixed that on cygwin.com. I've fixed this by making use of Cygport's new setup.hint generation fe

[RFU 64bit] sqlite3-3.7.16.2-1

2013-04-17 Thread Warren Young
From within release/sqlite3: wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=2 -np -nH -A'*3.7.16.2-1*' -A'*.hint' \ -r http://etr-usa.com/cygwin64/sqlite3/

[RFU 32bit] sqlite3-3.7.16.2-1

2013-04-16 Thread Warren Young
Leave 3.7.13-1 as prev, and remove 3.7.3. From within release/sqlite3: wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=2 -np -nH -A'*3.7.16.2-1*' -A'*.hint' \ -r http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/sqlite3/ (I'm including the *hint files this time, Corinna. :) )

[RFU 64bit] ctags-5.8-1

2013-04-16 Thread Warren Young
This is just a straight rebuild of the existing 32-bit ctags-5.8-1. While in the release/ctags directory: wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=2 -np -nH -A'*5.8-1*' -A'*.hint' -r \ http://etr-usa.com/cygwin64/ctags/

[RFU 64bit] expat-2.1.0-2

2013-04-16 Thread Warren Young
This is a straight rebuild of the just-RFU'd 32bit build. Its test suite runs without errors and the resulting xmlwf(1) binary runs. I won't consider it properly tested until one of the Cygwin programs depending on it builds against it and runs, however. While in the release/expat directory:

[RFU] expat-2.1.0-2

2013-04-16 Thread Warren Young
This just adds the missing .a file to the libexpat1-devel package. The other file size differences are no doubt due to toolchain changes over the past ~10 months since I built the -1 packages. (Upstream hasn't changed in that time, so I'm building from the same sources.) Remove the -1 packag

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread Warren Young
On 3/17/2013 10:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. Last time I answered one of your RFCs, I got accused of bikeshedding. (This was the Win9x EOL issue, a month or so ago. I'm not sure whether the accusation was directed at me personally, or if I just

Re: nuke cygwin legacy?

2013-02-05 Thread Warren Young
On 2/5/2013 10:41, Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna +1'ed my suggestion that it was time to remove cygwin 1.5 support so I'm wondering if anyone has any objections to removing 1.5 from cygwin.com. It seems to me that the sort of person who's still hanging onto a DOS-based version of Windows p

Re: sqlite3-3.7.15-1 test packages

2012-12-27 Thread Warren Young
On 11/21/2012 12:01, Achim Gratz wrote: FWIW, I think Yaakov is more immediately concerned about the additional API: -DSQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA\ -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS_PARENTHESIS\ -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS4 I've made some SQLite 3.7.15.1-1 packages, and put them up for

Re: ctags recursion broken? [ATTN: ctags, xemacs-tags maintainers]

2012-12-12 Thread Warren Young
On 12/12/2012 02:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Oh boy, how long do we have this collisions? For years, it seems. There must be a database of package contents behind the packages search engine on sourceware. If someone that has access to that DB extracts a raw list of file names, this command

Re: HEADSUP: lesstif replaced by motif

2012-11-26 Thread Warren Young
On 11/26/2012 05:28, Jon TURNEY wrote: The initial output to the gdb window stops before the 'ü' in "Dorothea Lütkehaus" (internally this is ISO-8859-1 encoded and presumably forms an invalid UTF-8 sequence) Only the 7-bit ASCII subset of ISO 8859-x is legal UTF-8. This is listed in the ddd

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0 - public domain

2012-10-26 Thread Warren Young
On 10/25/2012 11:49 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: Neither OSI, nor FSF recommend use of "public domain" for Open Source software. I think you should total up the list of recommendations the FSF has made over the years, and decide if you really want to be constrained use only things that make FSF hap

Re: LICENSE: base-files and use of CC0

2012-10-25 Thread Warren Young
On 10/25/2012 12:43 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: According to: git clone git://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git base-files.git May files are put out using CC0 license[1]. I'm wondering this as it is to my understanding recommended only for data (images, pure data files, databases etc.), or for

Re: ITP: xlsx2csv -- Convert xslx xml files to csv format

2012-10-23 Thread Warren Young
On 10/13/2012 1:59 PM, Jari Aalto wrote: Not yet included in any distributions, so needs votes. GTG. I hope you can work with the upstream author to fix the hexbarf version number, though. Does upset know how to cope with such version numbers, or will manual maintenance of prev:, curr

Re: get-cygwin-package - for anyone with upload privileges

2012-10-17 Thread Warren Young
On 10/17/2012 4:46 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've hacked at the get-cygwin-package script I take it this script is run by hand when a human has decided to do something about an RFU message? If so, is there a plan or even a wish for getting to a point where a script can run on sourceware

Re: upload protocol

2012-10-10 Thread Warren Young
On 10/10/2012 11:46 AM, David Stacey wrote: As a newbie, I didn't know whether to wait for more comments, or to submit a [RFU] (as I'd been given a GTG) All of the discussion was questions of whether, not how or why. So, I think you should have just made the changes you wanted to make, and

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