Recently updated tar 1.13.25-6: executable wrongly located

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Tue Jun 7 14:36:00 GMT 2005


On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:39:32AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>fergus (a) bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
>>Following the very recent update to tar 1.13.25-6, the executable tar.exe
>>really _is_ located in /usr/bin/ rather than /bin/. Consequently, when in
>>Cygwin, tar is "not found".
>
>The tarball contains a leading ./ on all of the file names.
>The package should be repacked to remove this.

I knew that and I still got it wrong.  I've fixed this in tar-1.13.25-7.
There is nothing new in this release.  It was just bumped, along with
cpio, to fix the problem of the duplicate rmt.exe's.

cgf

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