From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14518 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2013 20:00:08 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 14504 invoked by uid 89); 15 Oct 2013 20:00:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:00:07 +0000 Received: from pool-98-110-183-69.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([98.110.183.69] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1VWAmj-0008kc-DI for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:00:05 +0000 Received: from cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C83D60114 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:00:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1+VPBpVDPF6XEkYIFw9gbmO Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:00:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: installed.db does not reflect the correct filename suffix Message-ID: <20131015200004.GA2966@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <2b1a16523f63ed60c93d0b9385979761.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> <20131015093643.GD19383@calimero.vinschen.de> <87d2n6il8f.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20131015160316.GB2578@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131015160316.GB2578@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00138.txt.bz2 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