Re: Don't like "setup" for ocassional updates

2007-09-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Hi Paul, The Cygwin list is the appropriate place for followups: From: Paul McFerrin Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: Paul McFerrin I thought is was that straight forward. Consider the .bz2 file under bzip2: bzip2-1.0.3-2.tar.bz2 I did a "bunzip2 -d file..."

RE: Don't like "setup" for ocassional updates

2007-09-13 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Hi Paul, The Cygwin list is the appropriate place for followups: > From: Paul McFerrin > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> From: Paul McFerrin > >> > >> I thought is was that straight forward. Consider the .bz2 > file under > >> bzip2: > >> bzip2-1.0.3-2.tar.bz2 > >> I did a "bunzip2 -d fi

RE: Don't like "setup" for ocassional updates

2007-09-13 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Paul McFerrin > > I thought is was that straight forward. Consider the .bz2 > file under bzip2: > bzip2-1.0.3-2.tar.bz2 > I did a "bunzip2 -d file..." and ended up with a file "bunzip2.exe" > which is corrupt. Can't do > tar -t file... Perhaps it's time to upgrade your Cygwin

Re: Don't like "setup" for ocassional updates

2007-09-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Paul McFerrin wrote: I thought is was that straight forward. Consider the .bz2 file under bzip2: bzip2-1.0.3-2.tar.bz2 I did a "bunzip2 -d file..." and ended up with a file "bunzip2.exe" which is corrupt. Can't do tar -t file... without getting the corrupt file error. Maybe I just got

Re: Don't like "setup" for ocassional updates

2007-09-13 Thread Paul McFerrin
I thought is was that straight forward. Consider the .bz2 file under bzip2: bzip2-1.0.3-2.tar.bz2 I did a "bunzip2 -d file..." and ended up with a file "bunzip2.exe" which is corrupt. Can't do tar -t file... without getting the corrupt file error. Maybe I just got a corrupt file but I

Re: Don't like "setup" for ocassional updates

2007-09-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
Your dislike of setup does not translate into your getting support for installing packages without setup. This really falls into the category of "If you can't figure it out you probably shouldn't be doing it". However, the files are just .tar.bz2 files with some extra stuff which is referenced in