I have found WinZip very unreliable with .tgz files so I quit using it. It
often fails to properly unarchive these archives and leaves missing files
and directories. I use the Cygwin unix tools now.
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Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [JBoss-user] jboss/db/jbossmq disappearing....
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:24:59PM +0100, Julian Gosnell wrote:
> > All the .tgz files I have checked in to binaries have this directory intact :
>
> This is strange. When I open the RC5-5 tgz in WinZip, the directory
> doesn't show up at all. I had expected that it might be there but some
> option made WinZip not extract it. Not so, it's simply not there at
> all.
>
> Could WinZip possibly auto-remove it without telling the user?
>
> The only db dirs in there are
> jboss/db/
> jboss/db/hypersonic
>
> > So,
> >
> > As far as the tools I use go (linux - RedHat 6.2), this directory is intact in the
> > releases.
> >
> > I guess that for some reason when people unpack the release they are losing it.
>Could it
> > be permissions based ? It makes me wonder how many other directories are just
> > disappearing ?
> >
> > If the dir is getting lost because it is empty, perhaps we could just 'touch' a
>dummy
> > file in there to prevent this ? What do people think ?
>
> I would think it's the emptiness that does it.
>
> Any other empty directories in the distribution?
>
> If you do a distrib with a dummy in there, I can check if it shows up
> in WinZip.
>
> Cheers
> Bent D
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