From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 103704 invoked by alias); 27 Mar 2017 17:22:52 -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 103694 invoked by uid 89); 27 Mar 2017 17:22:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*i:sk:4DB198B, H*f:sk:4DB198B, H*MI:sk:4DB198B X-HELO: mail-it0-f49.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f49.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f49.google.com) (209.85.214.49) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:22:50 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f49.google.com with SMTP id y18so62262743itc.1 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:22:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=6TrpXt26muDfE2notaiHF12p8ugQKI6lP3JRaVm/+9s=; b=VFtgP37T5qC6clAqw00l1XBaezIRg5GAS47yuV8ZEUBB1ZCrm1kL14IYyLJ0plCgVm 58onQo4/Tf5lVZrI/jZ8jo9WHobJAcptOl3W75yvF/IOTcrEWzmsY8TY7yRmD8KP9ipy qRYXyHS7x5abJaTZS2stYFYFRXcTu5TEzBNULnRneI7EbUclpb/B3P5NuqZTM3WHgWaU DWMHkkXyUwZjWVx/eyd8PU4EC+WaiH0GzPHyDby3KiDC2nSZpYch275Ul+vsSUE+9bCl fJg7xcbszZzvByZnP892W+0ish2iIT0y1S7xl7TFV87nYO550igrInwUoV8khcmRLmI4 WgXg== X-Gm-Message-State: AFeK/H1xioU2lEwGLCScHw4NjrwxCGft3/BRIlulKkPA2KtuHIY/zOCeUbXt6fOXx2T6cA== X-Received: by 10.107.8.91 with SMTP id 88mr21413147ioi.142.1490635369849; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (d27-96-48-76.nap.wideopenwest.com. [96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w73sm526000ioi.16.2017.03.27.10.22.49 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: inetutils-server, OpenSP and units install glitches and fixes To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1925262808.2517393.1490389786483@mail.yahoo.com> <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBF681A@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> <4DB198B1-3D01-401C-B1E8-5AEFFEBEF6DE@yahoo.com> From: cyg Simple Message-ID: <3ee015e2-9e01-8170-ff3f-d0af3790ee99@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:57:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4DB198B1-3D01-401C-B1E8-5AEFFEBEF6DE@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-03/txt/msg00344.txt.bz2 On 3/27/2017 11:42 AM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: > > > On March 27, 2017 8:48:07 AM EDT, "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 > > I appreciate the suggestion, but j is for bz2 on redhat 5.6. There is an "xz" package we could install, but we're moving to redhat 6.4, with tar 1.23, and tar -xvf works there easy as 123. Ha. > This should work for both Cygwin and your Redhat Linux -a, --auto-compress use archive suffix to determine the compression You just need to ensure that the prerequisite software to do the compression/decompression is in place. -- cyg Simple -- 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