1.7.20: cygicons-0.dll has gone missing

1.7.20: cygicons-0.dll has gone missing

[Erik Falor]

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I ran setup.exe yesterday to update my Cygwin system and noticed that
afterward most of my Cygwin-related desktop icons reverted to the
Windows default icon image.  Upon further investigation I found that
/bin/cygicons-0.dll is missing from my system.

cygcheck -c reports no incomplete packages.

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RE: 1.7.20: cygicons-0.dll has gone missing

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]]

Erik Falor sent the following at Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:07 PM
>I ran setup.exe yesterday to update my Cygwin system and noticed that
>afterward most of my Cygwin-related desktop icons reverted to the
>Windows default icon image. Upon further investigation I found that
>/bin/cygicons-0.dll is missing from my system.
>
>cygcheck -c reports no incomplete packages.

The cygutils package was recently split into cygutils-extra and
cygutils-x11.  Install cygutils-extra.

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.


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Re: 1.7.20: cygicons-0.dll has gone missing

[Erik Falor]

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On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:22:26PM +0000, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Erik Falor sent the following at Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:07 PM
> >I ran setup.exe yesterday to update my Cygwin system and noticed that
> >afterward most of my Cygwin-related desktop icons reverted to the
> >Windows default icon image. Upon further investigation I found that
> >/bin/cygicons-0.dll is missing from my system.
> >
> >cygcheck -c reports no incomplete packages.
> 
> The cygutils package was recently split into cygutils-extra and
> cygutils-x11.  Install cygutils-extra.

That did it.  Thanks, Barry!

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RE: 1.7.20: cygicons-0.dll has gone missing

[Nellis, Kenneth]

From: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] gone missing

> The cygutils package was recently split into cygutils-extra and
> cygutils-x11.  Install cygutils-extra.

Doesn't this suggest that cygicons-0.dll should be included
in the base cygwin package?

--Ken Nellis

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Re: 1.7.20: cygicons-0.dll has gone missing

[marco atzeri]

Il 6/27/2013 2:19 PM, Nellis, Kenneth ha scritto:
> From: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] gone missing
>
>> The cygutils package was recently split into cygutils-extra and
>> cygutils-x11.  Install cygutils-extra.
>
> Doesn't this suggest that cygicons-0.dll should be included
> in the base cygwin package?
>
> --Ken Nellis

base does not needs icons, so in IMHO no.

Regards
Marco


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Re: 1.7.20: cygicons-0.dll has gone missing

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, marco atzeri!

>>> The cygutils package was recently split into cygutils-extra and
>>> cygutils-x11.  Install cygutils-extra.
>>
>> Doesn't this suggest that cygicons-0.dll should be included
>> in the base cygwin package?
>>
>> --Ken Nellis

> base does not needs icons, so in IMHO no.

That's a bit flawed line, IMO.
Default install should put user's system in a consistent working order.
Missing icons is not something I would call "consistent".
On another note, why not include Cygwin icon into cygwin1.dll?


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 28.06.2013, <14:14>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: 1.7.20: cygicons-0.dll has gone missing

[Charles Wilson]

On 6/28/2013 6:16 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>> The cygutils package was recently split into cygutils-extra and
>>>> cygutils-x11.  Install cygutils-extra.
>>>
>>> Doesn't this suggest that cygicons-0.dll should be included
>>> in the base cygwin package?
>
>> base does not needs icons, so in IMHO no.
>
> That's a bit flawed line, IMO.
> Default install should put user's system in a consistent working order.
> Missing icons is not something I would call "consistent".

What part of a default install [1] *requires* icons from cygicon-0.dll? 
  Now, if you're talking about updating an existing cygwin installation 
via setup.exe [with no special package selection], then yeah -- this is 
a *known* breakage.  But it's better than the previous *known issue* 
where a default "Base" install [1] would pull in python and bits of X11. 
  THAT is what this packaging change was intended to fix, and because we 
did so deliberately in order to break requires: dependencies, we 
couldn't very well avoid the problem you see by adding those same 
requires: dependencies right back.

Summary: READ the cygwin-announce list. Always. KNOW what you're doing 
when you upgrade.  AND, if you didn't do that...when you see an error 
due to a "routine upgrade"...go back and DO read that list.

[1] And by "default install" I mean "new installation of cygwin, using 
setup.exe, on a virgin system that has never before had cygwin 
installed", where NO special package selection is made.  E.g. a "Base" 
installation.

And really, missing icons doesn't break a darn thing. It just makes 
things look less pretty, temporarily, until you manually install the 
correct package.

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Chuck


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Re: 1.7.20: cygicons-0.dll has gone missing

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:22:49AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>On 6/28/2013 6:16 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>>> The cygutils package was recently split into cygutils-extra and
>>>>> cygutils-x11.  Install cygutils-extra.
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't this suggest that cygicons-0.dll should be included
>>>> in the base cygwin package?
>>
>>> base does not needs icons, so in IMHO no.
>>
>> That's a bit flawed line, IMO.
>> Default install should put user's system in a consistent working order.
>> Missing icons is not something I would call "consistent".
>
>What part of a default install [1] *requires* icons from cygicon-0.dll? 
>  Now, if you're talking about updating an existing cygwin installation 
>via setup.exe [with no special package selection], then yeah -- this is 
>a *known* breakage.  But it's better than the previous *known issue* 
>where a default "Base" install [1] would pull in python and bits of X11. 
>  THAT is what this packaging change was intended to fix, and because we 
>did so deliberately in order to break requires: dependencies, we 
>couldn't very well avoid the problem you see by adding those same 
>requires: dependencies right back.
>
>Summary: READ the cygwin-announce list. Always. KNOW what you're doing 
>when you upgrade.  AND, if you didn't do that...when you see an error 
>due to a "routine upgrade"...go back and DO read that list.
>
>[1] And by "default install" I mean "new installation of cygwin, using 
>setup.exe, on a virgin system that has never before had cygwin 
>installed", where NO special package selection is made.  E.g. a "Base" 
>installation.
>
>And really, missing icons doesn't break a darn thing. It just makes 
>things look less pretty, temporarily, until you manually install the 
>correct package.

What he said.

cgf

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