From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3030 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2014 13:05:09 -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 3021 invoked by uid 89); 19 Jan 2014 13:05:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: Ishtar.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:05:07 +0000 Received: from [192.168.4.12] (Athenae [192.168.4.12]) by Ishtar.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id s0JD505m026140 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 05:05:02 -0800 Message-ID: <52DBCD7C.7070809@tlinx.org> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:05:00 -0000 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Corrupted tar-ball in Cygwin-x86_64 References: <52DA6D1C.4080206@alice.it> <52DA770D.9010709@gmail.com> <52DA78D5.60409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52DA78D5.60409@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00250.txt.bz2 Marco Atzeri wrote: > > > On 18/01/2014 13:43, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> >> >> On 18/01/2014 13:01, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >>> When I try to update my Cygwin64 installation (on a virtualBox Win7-64 >>> installation) I get an error about the cygwin32-1.7.27-1.tar.xz package >>> which seems corrupted. >>> >>> This is confirmed from command line on which i get: >>> >>> $ tar -rf cygwin32-1.7.27-1.tar.xz >>> tar: Impossibile aggiornare archivi compressi >>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now ---- You need to tell tar to uncompress it for you -- or uncompress it yourself. For 't' try using tar -taf fff.tar.xz You've never been able to append a file directly to a compressed archive. You need to uncompress it first, append then recompress. -- 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