On March 27, 2017 8:48:07 AM EDT, "Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)" wrote: >From: Ian Lambert via cygwin >> ... >> On a related note, using not ancient Red Hat 5.6 where the mirror is >> stored, tar won't expand the Cygwin packages? >> >> $ tar -xvf units-2.13-1.tar.xz >> >> tar: This does not look like a tar archive >> tar: Skipping to next header >> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers >> tar: Read 9640 bytes from units-2.13-1.tar.xz >> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >> >> $ tar --version >> tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 >> >> >> but tar Packaged by Cygwin (1.29-1) will. >> > >I believe you need to tell tar if the file is in a compressed >format. Not sure if your version takes the same options as >Cygwin's tar 1.29, but there you would want to say (I suspect): > >$ tar -xvjf units-2.13-1.tar.xz > >--Ken Nellis
I appreciate the suggestion, but j is for bz2 on redhat 5.6. There is an "xz" package we could install, but we're moving to redhat 6.4, with tar 1.23, and tar -xvf works there easy as 123. Ha. Thanks -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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