Updated: setup (2.880)

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Jun 19 16:38:00 GMT 2017


On 19/06/2017 16:29, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> #!/bin/sh
> # From http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-04/msg00714.html
> name=setup-x86_64.exe
> wget -O $name --quiet http://cygwin.com/$name || exit
> # ACL issues require some fixing up after wget
> chmod +x $name
> exit
> 
> ...but Windows complained about the file format when I tried to launch
> it. Then "file" told me...
> 
> $ file *.exe
> setup-x86_64.exe: gzip compressed data, from Unix
> $
> 
> ...so I added suffix .gz and then used (actually) WinZip to unzip
> it, and it created a working setup.exe.
> 
> So, is this new behavior? Is it to be expected going forward?

This behaviour is not expected or wanted.  I can't reproduce it, either.

> $ wget https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
> --2017-06-19 17:31:56--  https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
> Resolving cygwin.com... 209.132.180.131
> Connecting to cygwin.com|209.132.180.131|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 906771 (886K) [application/octet-stream]
> Saving to: ‘setup-x86_64.exe’
> 
> setup-x86_64.exe    100%[===================>] 885.52K   550KB/s    in 1.6s
> 
> 2017-06-19 17:31:58 (550 KB/s) - ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ saved [906771/906771]
> 
> $ file setup-x86_64.exe
> setup-x86_64.exe: PE32+ executable (GUI) x86-64, for MS Windows
> 
> $ xxd setup-x86_64.exe | head -1
> 00000000: 4d5a 9000 0300 0000 0400 0000 ffff 0000  MZ..............

Do you have something in your ~/.wgetrc to add an "accept-encoding: 
gzip" header or something?

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