Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:43:32 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin online availabilty Message-ID: <20010111134332.B4141@cobold.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Joerg.Schaible@gft.com on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:45:45PM +0100 On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:45:45PM +0100, Schaible, Joerg wrote: > Hi Michael, > > see Corinna's statements. At least you can use setup to download the latest > version from the web. When setup is finished you may create your "full.exe" > by yourself using WinZip. NO!!! Don't use WinZip to create a full archive from the Cygwin tree. WinZip doesn't preserve the system bit which flags symlinks. WinZip doesn't preserve empty directories (/tmp for example). What you _can_ do is create a WinZip archive of the installation directory (which contains the `latest' and `contrib' directories) and after unpacking the archive start `setup.exe'. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple