On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 05:47, Yann Crausaz wrote: > Hello, > > So, it was a mistake to try to handle cygwin-packets (eg >gcc-mingw-3.2-20020817-1.tar.bz2) > without using the setup program. Maybe it's a bad habit I've got, since > I use to work on a GNU/Linux box...
Well, setup uses tarballs as a convenience. It tracks installed files, pre and post remove scripts as so forth as well, much like dpkg and rpm do. So, it's to be expected that untarring a tarball won't give you the desired result. I'm glad its working for you now. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---
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