Why does /etc/setup/installed.db list tar.bz2 even if tar.xz

Steven Penny svnpenn@gmail.com
Sun Feb 4 02:19:00 GMT 2018


On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:48:00, <cygwin at kosowsky dot org> wrote:
> The installed.db seems to always list packages as being tar.bz2 even
> when they are tar.xz.
> 
> Is there any reason for this? Or is it a bug?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00170.html

This is an old thread, but it appears this issue was never answered and
persists. For example, /etc/setup/installed.db has entries like this:

    gawk gawk-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
    which which-2.20-2.tar.bz2 0

but not all the files are actually bz2:

- http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/x86_64/release/gawk
- http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/x86_64/release/which


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