Corrupted tar-ball in Cygwin-x86_64

[Marco Atzeri]

On 18/01/2014 13:01, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> When I try to update my Cygwin64 installation (on a virtualBox Win7-64
> installation) I get an error about the cygwin32-1.7.27-1.tar.xz package
> which seems corrupted.
>
> This is confirmed from command line on which i get:
>
> $ tar -rf cygwin32-1.7.27-1.tar.xz
> tar: Impossibile aggiornare archivi compressi
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
>
> Ciao,
>   Angelo.
>

last is is cygwin-1.7.27-2.tar.xz

$ md5sum cygwin-1.7.27-2.tar.xz
7dc5f90c8500701849b16648e3980320 *cygwin-1.7.27-2.tar.xz

why cygwin32 ?

Moreover:
-r, --append               append files to the end of an archive

 > tar: Impossibile aggiornare archivi compressi

as the message says (in italian) you can not append files
to compressed archive

Regards
Marco




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