Re: installed.db does not reflect the correct filename suffix

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Oct 15 16:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 06:03:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Oct 15 17:53, Achim Gratz wrote:
> >> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> >> > Does anybody have an idea how to fix this?
> >> 
> >> Pragmatically the compression suffix could be dropped (just appending
> >> ".tar"), since setup.exe doesn't care what it is anyway.
> >
> >I was assuming that some people automatically scan installed.db for some
> >purposes, and for those people the current state is broken with .tar.xz
> >archives.
> 
> Since installed.db is intended for use by cygwin tools that we support
> it is not really "wrong" for it to use .bz2.  It is just odd.  However,
> I think we should just the .tar.* extension entirely and fix cygcheck to
> deal with that case.

Right.  We should then release 1.7.26 soon to get the new cygcheck
out of the door.


Corinna

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