From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1563 invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2008 17:56:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 1530 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Jul 2008 17:56:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-72-93-245-95.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO ednor.cgf.cx) (72.93.245.95) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:56:19 +0000 Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 8C7C86E7282; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:56:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:56:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2 Message-ID: <20080718175617.GA18595@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20080717155516.GC5675@calimero.vinschen.de> <379554.39467.qm@web25005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <20080718171010.GH5675@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080718171010.GH5675@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:10:10PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jul 18 18:36, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> --- Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: >> > Download a 1.7 distro using >> > http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe >> >> Is it still unable to handle empty tarball ? > >... of a certain type, yes, unfortunately. Fortunately it doesn't >stop the whole setup process, it just prints an error message and >asks for user input. Actually I don't think it can handle any type of empty tarball can it? I created them with "tar -T /dev/null -cjf foo.tar.bz2" but I think setup.exe still complains about those type of tar files. cgf