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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:05:16PM +0100, Vincent Richomme wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am just curious to understand how package are installed on cygwin
>because from what I can see they are stored as .tar.bz2 archive.
>Let's say I have a package with one exe, so it will be packaged
>inside \usr\bin :
>
>usr
>  bin
>    someapp.exe
>
>however once installed it will end up inside CYGWINDIR/bin
>and not CYGWINDIR/usr/bin.
>I understand it comes from the fact that  /usr/bin is mapped 
>on CYGWINDIR/bin BUT what I don't understand is how do you move files
>inside package into their final destination.

cd /
tar xjf foo.tar.bz2

Where foo.tar.bz2 contains relative paths to where you want things
installed.

Inspect one of Cygwin's tar.bz2 packages for a real example.

cgf

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