Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:40:04 -0500 From: Glenn Spell To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Installation Routine Message-ID: <20000225174004.A1151@shell4.ba.best.com> Reply-To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com References: <20000225083945 DOT 22749 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com> <38B64FB1 DOT CD9B12D3 AT vinschen DOT de> <20000225053004 DOT A11333 AT shell4 DOT ba DOT best DOT com> <20000225111653 DOT D31323 AT cygnus DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000225111653.D31323@cygnus.com>; from "Chris Faylor" on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 11:16AM Organization: the aerie On 25 Feb 2000 around 11:16AM (-0500) Chris Faylor wrote: > Actually, I thought it was IE that messed up .bz2 files. It's probably both IE and Navigator... and any other web client that's programmed to accept http mime headers as accurate. If I recall correctly, the default Apache configuration serves files with extension .bz2 as text/plain files. This may work on Unix systems but not on Windows/DOS. > Regardless, you don't have to give the files a .bz2 extension, > necessarily. The only problem with that is that you run the risk > of confusing people who download individual packages. Yes, that might cause additional confusion. Sometimes it is true that two wrongs don't make a right. At Chuck solved this problem with the .htaccess configuration file. I just now downloaded a bz2 file from there with Netscape to confirm that. But back to Ron's question about using bzip2... I don't know if the bzip2 files to which Ron's question refers would be served from only Sourceware or not. But back in August I did send Jason the following patch for the Sourceware Apache configuration. This patch will alleviate the bz2 download problem. (I also sent him some suggestions for solving similiar problems with MHonArc.) I believe that, at the time, he was to busy to pursue this. I don't know if any changes have been made since to the Sourceware configuration. I just now looked for some bz2 files on Sourceware being served by http but did not find any. Again, the problem only exist when serving files with http. So... personally, I see no problem with Ron using bzip2. I suspect that these files will be served via ftp anyway so Apache configuration would not even enter into the equation. The patch follows just to illustrate how easy it is to correct. (This also stops Netscape from changing tar.gz to tar.tar) ------------------< cut here >------------------ --- mime.types.ORIG Sun Mar 14 17:59:00 1999 +++ mime.types Sun Aug 15 03:24:34 1999 @@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ application/wordperfect5.1 +application/x-arj-compressed arj application/x-bcpio bcpio +application/x-bzip2 bz2 application/x-cdlink vcd application/x-chess-pgn pgn -application/x-compress +application/x-compress Z +application/x-compressed tgz application/x-cpio cpio @@ -163,3 +166,3 @@ application/x-gtar gtar -application/x-gzip +application/x-gzip gz tar.gz z application/x-hdf hdf @@ -169,2 +172,4 @@ application/x-netcdf nc cdf +application/x-patch patch +application/x-rar-compressed rar application/x-sh sh ------------------< cut here >------------------ -glenn -- ________________________________________ _ _____ ) )_ _ (__\____o /_/_ | ) Glenn Spell ) >-----._/_/__]> )________________________________________) `0 |