X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:32:30 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: service interact with desktop broken between: 1.5.5 & 1.5.19 Message-ID: <20060326213230.GG9448@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <007e01c64de2$c95200a0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <01ff01c64f42$079578f0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20060326143235.GW10301@calimero.vinschen.de> <0c8301c650f6$6e4154b0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 03:50:24PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: >On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Steven Hartland wrote: >> From: "Corinna Vinschen" > >. Thanks. > >>>Thanks Lev, I've integrated this into the new 1.13-1 version of >>>cygrunsrv which I just uploaded to cygwin.com. >> >>Ok really silly question where do I get that from the packages link >>just returns a web page no download links. The mirrors dont seem to >>have it yet, surely there's a direct download there some where but I >>cant find it for the life of me. > >There is a way of grabbing things directly off cygwin.com via rsync >(essentially creating a local mirror). Googling for "rsync download >site:cygwin.com" brings up a few recipes for doing this. I believe the >information that Cygwin supports rsync, but not ftp or http downloads >used to be somewhere on the Cygwin.com FTP site, but it isn't any >longer... This is very much not a supported method for installing packages. You are really just confusing a very simple issue by even bringing this up. The way to install packages for cygwin is via "setup.exe". If you don't see a package 2 microseconds after someone sends an announcement to cygwin-announce then... WAIT FOR IT. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/