Corrupted tar-ball in Cygwin-x86_64

[Linda Walsh]

Marco Atzeri wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
----
	You need to tell tar to uncompress it for you -- or uncompress
it yourself.

For 't' try using
tar -taf fff.tar.xz

You've never been able to append a file directly to a compressed
archive.  You need to uncompress it first, append then recompress.


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