Re: Updated: file-4.15-1

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 10:02:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:55:38AM +1000, Atkins, Richard J (Richard) wrote:
>>Is anyone else having trouble with this update?  On my system cygcheck
>>says it's missing all the binaries this package contains.  It seems the
>>tar.bz2 was made with an extra "./" at the start of each entry, so the
>>setup.exe fails to install them where it should.  I've no idea where
>>these files actually end up either, but I can see setup.exe attempting
>>to extract each one.
>
>This problem was fixed on 2005-08-27 at 9:14GMT.  You should be
>retrieving the file-4.15-2 package, which looks like this:
>
>-rwxr-xr-x 1003/0        69439 2005-08-26 22:52:01 usr/bin/cygmagic-1.dll
>-rwxr-xr-x 1003/0         9728 2005-08-26 22:51:56 usr/bin/file.exe
>-rw-r--r-- 1003/0         2633 2005-08-26 22:51:33 usr/include/magic.h
>-rw-r--r-- 1003/0       304214 2005-08-26 22:51:31 usr/lib/libmagic.a
>-rwxr-xr-x 1003/0        21304 2005-08-26 22:51:31 usr/lib/libmagic.dll.a
>-rwxr-xr-x 1003/0          776 2005-08-26 22:51:31 usr/lib/libmagic.la
>-rw-r--r-- 1003/0       419946 2005-08-26 22:51:33 usr/share/file/magic
>-rw-r--r-- 1003/0       902784 2005-08-26 22:51:33 usr/share/file/magic.mgc
>-rw-r--r-- 1003/0        30955 2005-08-26 22:51:33 usr/share/file/magic.mime
>-rw-r--r-- 1003/0        43904 2005-08-26 22:51:33 usr/share/file/magic.mime.mgc
>-rw-r--r-- 1003/0        16480 2005-08-26 22:51:34 usr/share/man/man1/file.1
>-rw-r--r-- 1003/0         6647 2005-08-26 22:51:34 usr/share/man/man3/libmagic.3
>-rw-r--r-- 1003/0        12074 2005-08-26 22:51:34 usr/share/man/man5/magic.5
>
>If you aren't seeing this, try another mirror.

Just to rectify a poor choice of words: when I said "looks like this", I
meant that this is what the contents of the .tar.bz2 file looks like.  I
got the above output by performing this command:

  tar vtjf file-4.15-2.tar.bz2 --numeric
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