From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 514 invoked by alias); 27 Mar 2017 22:56:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 483 invoked by uid 89); 27 Mar 2017 22:56:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:sk:0D835E9, H*M:local, H*F:D*au X-HELO: mail107.syd.optusnet.com.au Received: from mail107.syd.optusnet.com.au (HELO mail107.syd.optusnet.com.au) (211.29.132.53) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 22:56:33 +0000 Received: from dimstar.local.net (c110-22-56-26.eburwd6.vic.optusnet.com.au [110.22.56.26]) by mail107.syd.optusnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32FD1D4BC9B for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:56:32 +1100 (AEDT) Received: (qmail 4482 invoked by uid 501); 27 Mar 2017 22:37:59 -0000 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 22:56:00 -0000 From: Duncan Roe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: inetutils-server, OpenSP and units install glitches and fixes Message-ID: <20170327223759.GA4267@dimstar.local.net> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1925262808.2517393.1490389786483@mail.yahoo.com> <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBF681A@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBF681A@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-Optus-CM-Score: 0 X-Optus-CM-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=VbSHBBh9 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=/xIuaNGu1NPzt0yKkvdCVQ==:117 a=/xIuaNGu1NPzt0yKkvdCVQ==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=6Iz7jQTuP9IA:10 a=G8BAmrsa277I-gg8D78A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-03/txt/msg00350.txt.bz2 On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:48:07PM +0000, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: > From: Ian Lambert via cygwin > > ... > > On a related note, using not ancient Red Hat 5.6 where the mirror is > > stored, tar won't expand the Cygwin packages? > > > > $ tar -xvf units-2.13-1.tar.xz > > > > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > > tar: Skipping to next header > > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > > tar: Read 9640 bytes from units-2.13-1.tar.xz > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > > > $ tar --version > > tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 > > > > > > but tar Packaged by Cygwin (1.29-1) will. > > > > I believe you need to tell tar if the file is in a compressed > format. Not sure if your version takes the same options as > Cygwin's tar 1.29, but there you would want to say (I suspect): > > $ tar -xvjf units-2.13-1.tar.xz > > --Ken Nellis No, -j is for bz2. -J (capital j) is for xz, but the tar being tried may be too old to have that option. Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple