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Re: [avail for test] zip-2.3-2 and unzip-5.50-1


Any objections to marking these two packages as 'current'?  In my 
testing, they seem to work fine, and the following work (which did not 
work previously):

zip foo.zip C:/sys/*
zip foo.zip C:\\AUTOEXEC.BAT C:\\AUTOEXEC.W40

However, this doesn't work:

zip foo.zip C:\\sys\\*
         zip warning: name not matched: C:/sys/*

zip error: Nothing to do! (foo.zip)

However, it is useful to note that ls.exe fails in exactly the same way: 
it can't match wildcard patterns that contain backslashes:

ls c:\\sys\\*
ls: c:\sys\*: No such file or directory

but wildcard patterns with forward slashes work, and specific filenames 
with backslashes work, too.  So, this (incomplete, but still better than 
the old zip package) support for C: style pathnames seems to be an 
improvement over status quo.  The failure mode is probably a bash or 
cygwin error; if anyone would like to track it down that'd be great -- 
but I don't think the "problem" is in zip's code...

--Chuck


Charles Wilson wrote:

> I've uploaded these two packages to sourceware and marked them as 'test' 
> releases.  Please try them out, and let me know if there are any 
> problems.  (See below for installation instructions)
> 
> CHANGES: zip-2.3-2
> 
> o Update to new script-based packaging scheme.
> 
> o Added the dospath patch from Michael Schaap --
>   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-06/msg01722.html
> 
> Also, see
> 
> "Two problems with Cygwin's ZIP":
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-06/msg01507.html
> 
> "Cygwin: Open or Closed System? (was: two problems with cygwin's zip)":
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-06/msg01588.html
> 
> "RE: Cygwin: Interoperability Is Important (was Cygwin: Open or Closed 
> System, etc)":
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-06/msg01617.html
> 
> Hopefully, this version addresses the problems zip had with DOS-style 
> paths, while not negatively impacting "normal" (e.g. unixlike) behavior 
> of cygwin's zip.
> 
> 
> CHANGES: unzip-5.50-1
> 
> o Update to version 5.50
> o Use new script-driven build scheme.
> 
> There is a small bug in unzip-5.50 which you may have heard about, but 
> it only affects 16-bit ports.  We're 32bit.
> 
> --Chuck
> 
> INSTALLATION:
> 
> INSTALLATION:
> 
> To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link
> on the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
> system.  Then, run setup and update the zip and unzip packages.  Note 
> that these 'test' versions will not automatically appear in the chooser 
> window; you may have to click on the version number a few times before 
> versions "2.3-2" and "5.50-1" show up.
> 
> Note that we have recently stopped downloads from sources.redhat.com
> (aka cygwin.com) due to bandwidth limitations.  This means that you
> will need to find a mirror which has this update.
> 
> In the US,
> ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
> is a reliable high bandwidth connection.
> 
> In the UK,
> http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/
> is usually up-to-date within 48 hours.
> 
> If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package
> then you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another
> mirror.
> 
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> 
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