Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/11/02/05:12:16
On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 20:32, Ronald Landheer wrote:
> I agree that it's bad practice on the maintainers behalf, but I think
> Setup should be able to handle it anyway: either it should not offer a
> package it won't be able to unpack, or it should be able to unpack
> anything it offers (regardless of whether it's .gz or .bz2, and
> regardless of where it happens to live: if found & offered, make good
> the offer).
Granted. I just have no motivation to fix it, but if you have the time,
or someone else does, I won't object to patches that address this
cleanly.
> Nope: when I downloaded the tree, that's where it was - not in
> latest/newlib-man but in latest/cygwin.
> BTW: this is a *second* error - the first one (sloppy maintainers) is
> a different one (though it boils down to the same thing: offering what
> it doesn't do)
Hmm, that's funny, setup.ini lists it as latest/newlib-man/...
can you get reproduce the funny download behaviour?
Rob
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