On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:05:16PM +0100, Vincent Richomme wrote: >Hi, > >I am just curious to understand how package are installed on cygwin >because from what I can see they are stored as .tar.bz2 archive. >Let's say I have a package with one exe, so it will be packaged >inside \usr\bin : > >usr > bin > someapp.exe > >however once installed it will end up inside CYGWINDIR/bin >and not CYGWINDIR/usr/bin. >I understand it comes from the fact that /usr/bin is mapped >on CYGWINDIR/bin BUT what I don't understand is how do you move files >inside package into their final destination.
cd / tar xjf foo.tar.bz2 Where foo.tar.bz2 contains relative paths to where you want things installed. Inspect one of Cygwin's tar.bz2 packages for a real example. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
