On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote: > When I run the setup for Cygwin I go through various dialog boxes to > download and install various packages. All the packages come in as > name.tar.bz2 files. Consider this package: > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28862 > > The files here are in the form name.tar.gz. What I did was ungzip the > package and recompress it as a bz2 file. What I'd like to do is use the > same sequence of events that Cygwin uses to install the name.tar.bz2 > files downloaded from Cygwin setup to install my newly formed bz2 file > as I just described. But I don't know the process (the sequence of > events) that Cygwin uses on the bz2 files to install the modules. > > So I am asking what that sequence of events are and if it is possible to > "manually" install a package such as the above using the same sequence > of events as are used through the Setup interface? Thanks.
See <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html>. FWIW, setup should be able to handle .gz files just fine too... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
