installed.db does not reflect the correct filename suffix

[Christopher Faylor]

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.

FWIW, I think Yaakov noticed this problem a few weeks ago.

cgf