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On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 09:28, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > You know, I almost mentioned that but I think that someone (Robert > Collins maybe?) may have suggested this previously and I adamantly > intoned that these were ".tar.bz2 files dammit". We had a long thread on cygwin-apps about this ~ 18 months back. It's the work of minutes to allow setup to install .cyg files - the encoding (gzip or bzip2) will be autodetected. I'm happy to ensure that this is in the next release. > However, changing the extension would go some way towards alleviating > this problem and it would open the door to creating different package > formats, identifiable by magic number. We already have that (magic number support in setup). There was a contributed patch that we discussed the architecture of on cygwin-apps, eventually I wrote a similar thing using that patch for inspiration / information. > I was also thinking of creating a '/dev/tty' file in the archive which > was just a real file containing the words "Hey! What are YOU DOING???" I > think that would cause a tar extraction to print that message to the > screen. Don't know what it would do to setup.exe, though. probably create c:/cygwin/dev/tty... Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.
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