From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10980 invoked by alias); 17 May 2002 09:23:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 10958 invoked from network); 17 May 2002 09:23:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO itdomain003.itdomain.net.au) (203.63.157.208) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 May 2002 09:23:28 -0000 Subject: RE: Setup.exe does not like its own source (was: setup.exe 2.218.2.8/9 broken) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 04:41:00 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Ton van Overbeek" , , X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg01102.txt.bz2 > -----Original Message----- > From: Ton van Overbeek [mailto:tvoverbe@cistron.nl]=20 > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 7:08 PM > Ton van Overbeek > P.S. Why is the contents of setup-2.218.2.9-1-src.tar.bz2=20 > only an other > tar.bz2 file ? Why not rename the original tar.bz2 file,=20 > would save > a few bytes. It's easier. The automake created tarball extracts into setup-0. If I use that tarball, then when you download updates, you'll overwrite the previous sources. Repacking them would be another step. Also see the cygwin-apps list discussion of different packaging styles.=20 Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/