Subject: Re: bug in setup.exe for postgresql-7.3.4-1
From: Robert Collins <[email-masked]>
To: Seth Rubin <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: 03 Aug 2003 17:33:34 +1000

> > 3) Looked at postgres.exe.
> >
> >     $ ls -l /usr/bin/postgre*
> >     -rwxr-x---+   1 Owner    Users     1985024 Aug  1 16:02
> > /usr/bin/postgres.exe
> 
> The permissions of postgres.exe is correct in the tarball:
> 
>     $ tar -tvjf postgresql-7.3.4-1.tar.bz2 usr/bin/postgres.exe
>     -rwxr-xr-x jt/Domain Users 1985024 2003-08-01 16:02:43
> usr/bin/postgres.exe
> 
> AFAICT, the above problem is due to a bug in Cygwin's setup.exe.  Please
> report the problem to the Cygwin list.\

if you extract the tarball, with preserved permissions, using cygwin's
tar - does the extracted file have the correct permissions?

Cheers,
Rob
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