Re: Process of Installation?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote:

> When I run the setup for Cygwin I go through various dialog boxes to
> download and install various packages.  All the packages come in as
> name.tar.bz2 files.  Consider this package:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28862
>
> The files here are in the form name.tar.gz.  What I did was ungzip the
> package and recompress it as a bz2 file.  What I'd like to do is use the
> same sequence of events that Cygwin uses to install the name.tar.bz2
> files downloaded from Cygwin setup to install my newly formed bz2 file
> as I just described.  But I don't know the process (the sequence of
> events) that Cygwin uses on the bz2 files to install the modules.
>
> So I am asking what that sequence of events are and if it is possible to
> "manually" install a package such as the above using the same sequence
> of events as are used through the Setup interface?  Thanks.

See <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html>.
FWIW, setup should be able to handle .gz files just fine too...
	Igor
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