Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/06/26/11:23:09
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:05:27AM -0400, Fred T. Hamster wrote:
>i have checked the faq and the mailing list and don't find the totally
>relevant answers, so here are the problems...
>
>1) zip saves absolute paths in the zipfile. for example, if i zip up
>"l:\source\lib_src\library\basis"/* into a zip file, all of the files in
>the archive start with "l:\". this leads, on unzipping, for zip to want
>to write them back into "l:\" rather than unzipping into the current
>directory. that is clearly a bad choice if my files on l:\ are somewhat
>better versions than those in the zip.
> the infozip distribution doesn't exhibit this behavior in the dos
>port; instead, it chops off the absolutist part of the path and leaves
>it as "source\lib_src\library\basis".
> note that using the -j flag to junk the paths is not appropriate; my
>zip files often contain 50-100 directories. i definitely don't want
>them to all be dropped into the same directory on unzipping.
Cygwin is a UNIX emulation environment. The cygwin zip program is a
UNIX port. It probably doesn't know that \ is equivalent to /.
We don't guarantee that every port of every utility that is distributed
with cygwin will properly handle MS-DOS path syntax. I don't think
that many package maintainers even care about this.
So, use forward slashes in your filenames. That is one of the whole
reasons for Cygwin -- the ability to use UNIX paths.
If you don't want to use Cygwin's UNIX path name facilities then you
should just be using a native zip port.
cgf
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