1.5.6 is there a problem with this build?

Fri Jan 23 02:46:00 GMT 2004

On 2004年1月22日, zzapper wrote:
> On 2004年1月22日 15:52:42 -0600 (CST), Brian Ford
> >>
> >I wasn't annoyed, but I did point you to the most authoritative reference
> >available on both topics. It should have been obvious in the mailing list
> >archives.
>> blush red, sorry Brian hadn't noticed the link. Just installed the
> snapshot (a valid but non-released build) (didn't know what one was
> before!!) .
>> It's easy peasy; download from snapshot http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>> cygwin-inst-2004*.tar.bz2

Technically, this is a full build snapshot. If you just want the DLL,
download cygwin1-2004*.dll.bz2 instead.
> bunzip2 cygwin-inst-20040122.tar.bz2
>> gives you cygwin-inst-20040122.tar
>> I then used Winzip to install files in c:\cygwin

BAD. VERY BAD. The FAQ and the user's guide repeatedly state: DO NOT USE
WinZip for installing packages. The same applies to snapshots. One
reason is that WinZip does not handle symlinks correctly, but there are
others.
> Is there a script or tool for installing snapshots??
>> Thanx Brian.
> zzapper (vim & cygwin & zsh)

There's no tool (it would be pretty easy to make snapshots installable by
setup.exe, though I can think of a couple of reasons why it requires extra
effort to install one), but there *is* an easier way. Simply run
tar -C/ -xjf cygwin-inst-20040122.tar.bz2
and you're done. If you just downloaded the DLL, you need a slightly
different command:
tar -C/usr/bin -xjf cygwin1-20040122.dll.bz2
Hope this helps,
	Igor
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