public inbox for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: setup: empty tarballs
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <094d01c9091c$f6d15ce0$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080826075700.GI29104@calimero.vinschen.de>

Corinna Vinschen wrote on 26 August 2008 08:57:

> On Aug 25 20:21, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA256
>> 
>> There's been quite a bit of back-and-forth over setup.exe's handling of
>> empty tarballs.  What has actually been implemented?
> 
> Setup.exe for 1.5 is unchanged, afaik.  I tweaked setup for 1.7 (CVS HEAD)
> so that it shouldn't complain anymore about any type of empty tar file.
> I have no idea if there was a decision to prefer a certain type of
> empty tar archive.

  The thread was "setup.exe: Invalid or unsupported tar format", starting Mon
05/05/2008 21:24.

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-28 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-26  1:22 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-08-26  7:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-08-28  0:33   ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-08-28 14:47   ` Dave Korn [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='094d01c9091c$f6d15ce0$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM' \
    --to=dave.korn@artimi.com \
    --cc=cygwin-apps@cygwin.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).