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 From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 14:22:37 -0400 To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: setup: built-in tar Message-ID: <20000523142237.A22399@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com References: <200005231735 DOT NAA21701 AT delorie DOT com> <200005231808 DOT OAA23591 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200005231808.OAA23591@envy.delorie.com>; from dj@delorie.com on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 02:08:28PM -0400 On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 02:08:28PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: >> If I remember my GPL correctly all you have to do is make the sources >> available. Posting them on the same server in a reasonably conspicuous >> location meets this requirement. > >Until either tar or gzip is updated, then the version in setup no >longer matches the sources. Or if someone wants to put setup on a >CD-ROM that doesn't happen to include tar or gzip. Or if the person >building setup.exe (me) has a different version of tar or gzip >installed on their system than the one on sourceware. Just a minor point: the tar and gzip that are installed are built from the sourceware distribution. They don't come from your installation they actually exist as tar.exe.gz and gzip.exe.gz files in ~winsup/cinstall. cgf