From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16363 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2016 12:09:35 -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 16352 invoked by uid 89); 3 Oct 2016 12:09:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:sk:fg@mail, H*MI:sk:nsqpd6$, H*r:Unknown X-HELO: blaine.gmane.org Received: from Unknown (HELO blaine.gmane.org) (195.159.176.226) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:09:34 +0000 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1br23h-0000Vm-LT for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:09:25 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Native symlinks and setup.exe Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:26:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00039.txt.bz2 * Gene Pavlovsky (Mon, 3 Oct 2016 00:46:54 +0300) > > So, when installing, the type of symlinks doesn't honor the CYGWIN > option since they are just unpacked by tar as is. > > The question I'm proposing now - should `tar` be modified to honor the > CYGWIN option and automatically convert symlinks when extracting, if > necessary? Tar's task is to unpack what's in the archive. So converting is out of question. You can ask the maintainer of the affected packages to create the symlinks in the postinstall script. Thorsten -- 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