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Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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>On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 18:02 +0930, Trevor Forbes wrote: |
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>>These are "nice to know" points. If you remember anything else, pls let |
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>>me know. Tks |
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>>I have started to working on it (for fun) in my spare time and I am |
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>>having some success. I have set up the user/group in Cygwin to look more |
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>>like Linux which is mostly working. I added the os definitions which |
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>>were missing from portage. I am now at the stage where the file locks |
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>>are not getting removed. |
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>Interesting. Which portage version are you using |
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I copied portage over from my main PC which eix reports it as 2.1_pre3-r1. |
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However, my Cygwin installation is not very clean so there could be |
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anything hiding in there. |
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>? |
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>>The ":" might be tricky, however, I could use a managed mount for |
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>>portage. Perhaps the offending packages could simply be renamed. |
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>RSYNC_EXCLUDE can contain a list of files not to transfer - filtering |
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>out the two or three offenders shouldn't be difficult |
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>>I am only interested in getting Cygwin working so SFU not in my scope. I |
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>>have not found Cygwin buggy, and even if it were broken, its just code |
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>>that can be fixed... Do you have examples... |
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>the linker dies after ~30 package compiles because it can't allocate an |
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>address for the dynamic libraries |
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>some functions of the libc are just stubs and don't do what they pretend |
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>to do |
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>file semantics are b0rked in some quite evil ways |
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>(removing an open file does some magic and almost looks like Unix) |
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>In general it almost works, but these bugs can be really annoying. |
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>And whenever you think you've found them all you find a new one ;-) |
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>wkr, |
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>Patrick |
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/ I think the linker problem was fixed some time ago, but if not it can |
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be fixed. |
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The libc functions can be add when needed. |
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File semantics can be fixed, the whole Cygwin idea is to look like Linux.. |
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I don't expect it to be easy, it may in the end, be unworkable. I am |
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just interested to see how far I can take it. Its just going to be a |
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slow process... |
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Tks again, |
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Trevor |
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