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
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prev 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]
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