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Re: patch.exe crashed on cygwin-1.3.15-2 (ATTN: cygwin patch maintainer!)
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 07:59:36AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:11:44PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:59:43PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> >ATTN: Cygwin patch maintainer!
>> >The patch source tarball (patch-2.5-3-src.tar.bz2) has a .bz2 extension
>> >but is a *gzip* file!
>>
>> % file *.bz2
>> patch-2.5-3-src.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
>> patch-2.5-3.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
>
>Max is right. file(1) lies. I've uploaded a corrected archive.
I would be very very surprised to find that file would lie so specifically.
>Thanks for the heads-up,
Um.
% ls -l patch*
-rw-r--r-- 1 cgf group 118074 Apr 26 2002 patch-2.5-3-src.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 cgf group 37824 Feb 20 2002 patch-2.5-3.tar.bz2
% gzip -t patch*.bz2
gzip: patch-2.5-3-src.tar.bz2: not in gzip format
gzip: patch-2.5-3.tar.bz2: not in gzip format
% bzip2 -t patch*.bz2
%
These are the old versions of those two files.
And, then there's the fact that the patch file that you just uploaded is
exactly the same size as the previous one...
cgf
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