Corrupted tar-ball in Cygwin-x86_64

[Marco Atzeri]

On 18/01/2014 13:43, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
>
> On 18/01/2014 13:01, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>> When I try to update my Cygwin64 installation (on a virtualBox Win7-64
>> installation) I get an error about the cygwin32-1.7.27-1.tar.xz package
>> which seems corrupted.
>>
>> This is confirmed from command line on which i get:
>>
>> $ tar -rf cygwin32-1.7.27-1.tar.xz
>> tar: Impossibile aggiornare archivi compressi
>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>>
>>
>> Ciao,
>>   Angelo.
>>
>
> last is is cygwin-1.7.27-2.tar.xz
>
> $ md5sum cygwin-1.7.27-2.tar.xz
> 7dc5f90c8500701849b16648e3980320 *cygwin-1.7.27-2.tar.xz
>
> why cygwin32 ?
>
> Moreover:
> -r, --append               append files to the end of an archive
>
>  > tar: Impossibile aggiornare archivi compressi
>
> as the message says (in italian) you can not append files
> to compressed archive
>
> Regards
> Marco
>

understood, cross compiler files are incomplete :

$ tar -tf cygwin32-1.7.27-1.tar.xz
usr/
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/sys-root/
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/sys-root/usr/
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/sys-root/usr/bin/
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/sys-root/usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
xz: (stdin): Unexpected end of input
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

$ tar -tf cygwin32-1.7.27-1-src.tar.xz
01-program-prefix.patch
cygwin-1.7.27.tar.bz2
xz: (stdin): Unexpected end of input
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now



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