From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: installed.db does not reflect the correct filename suffix
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131015200004.GA2966@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131015160316.GB2578@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 06:03:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Oct 15 17:53, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> > Does anybody have an idea how to fix this?
>>
>> Pragmatically the compression suffix could be dropped (just appending
>> ".tar"), since setup.exe doesn't care what it is anyway.
>
>I was assuming that some people automatically scan installed.db for some
>purposes, and for those people the current state is broken with .tar.xz
>archives.
Since installed.db is intended for use by cygwin tools that we support
it is not really "wrong" for it to use .bz2. It is just odd. However,
I think we should just the .tar.* extension entirely and fix cygcheck to
deal with that case.
FWIW, I think Yaakov noticed this problem a few weeks ago.
cgf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-15 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2013-10-15 9:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-10-15 15:53 ` Achim Gratz
2013-10-15 16:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-10-15 20:00 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2013-10-15 20:08 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-10-16 7:26 ` Corinna Vinschen
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