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 -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin Co-Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] TimeSys, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
