Greetings, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)! > From: Ian Lambert via cygwin >> ... >> On a related note, using not ancient Red Hat 5.6 where the mirror is >> stored, tar won't expand the Cygwin packages? >> >> $ tar -xvf units-2.13-1.tar.xz >> >> tar: This does not look like a tar archive >> tar: Skipping to next header >> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers >> tar: Read 9640 bytes from units-2.13-1.tar.xz >> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >> >> $ tar --version >> tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 >> >> >> but tar Packaged by Cygwin (1.29-1) will. >>
> I believe you need to tell tar if the file is in a compressed > format. tar autodetects compression format. No need to specify it explicitly. If you are unable to unpack .xz archive, you're missing the "xz" binary on your system. > Not sure if your version takes the same options as > Cygwin's tar 1.29, but there you would want to say (I suspect): > $ tar -xvjf units-2.13-1.tar.xz -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, March 28, 2017 04:06:29 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
