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Re: installed.db does not reflect the correct filename suffix

From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:03:16 +0200
Subject: Re: installed.db does not reflect the correct filename suffix
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On Oct 15 17:53, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Does anybody have an idea how to fix this?
> 
> Pragmatically the compression suffix could be dropped (just appending
> ".tar"), since setup.exe doesn't care what it is anyway.

I was assuming that some people automatically scan installed.db for some
purposes, and for those people the current state is broken with .tar.xz
archives.


Corinna

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