Updated: setup (2.880)

[Marco Atzeri]

On 19/06/2017 17:29, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> From: cygwin-announce-owner
>>
>> A new version of Setup, release 2.880, has been uploaded to
>>
>>    https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe     (32 bit version)
>>    https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe  (64 bit version)
>> ...
>> Please send bug reports, as usual, to the public mailing list cygwin AT
>> cygwin DOT com.
>
> So, I went to download this latest setup.exe using the script
> that I've been using...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # From http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-04/msg00714.html
> name=setup-x86_64.exe
> wget -O $name --quiet http://cygwin.com/$name || exit
> # ACL issues require some fixing up after wget
> chmod +x $name
> exit
>
> ...but Windows complained about the file format when I tried to launch
> it. Then "file" told me...
>
> $ file *.exe
> setup-x86_64.exe: gzip compressed data, from Unix
> $
>
> ...so I added suffix .gz and then used (actually) WinZip to unzip
> it, and it created a working setup.exe.
>
> So, is this new behavior? Is it to be expected going forward?
>
> --Ken Nellis
>

Not on this side :

$ wget https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
--2017-06-19 18:27:55--  https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
Resolving www.cygwin.com... 209.132.180.131
Connecting to www.cygwin.com|209.132.180.131|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 906771 (886K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘setup-x86_64.exe’

setup-x86_64.exe    100%[===================>] 885.52K   381KB/s    in 2.3s

2017-06-19 18:27:59 (381 KB/s) - ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ saved [906771/906771]

$ wget https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe.sig
--2017-06-19 18:29:38--  https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe.sig
Resolving www.cygwin.com... 209.132.180.131
Connecting to www.cygwin.com|209.132.180.131|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 72 [application/pgp-signature]
Saving to: ‘setup-x86_64.exe.sig’

setup-x86_64.exe.si 100%[===================>]      72  --.-KB/s    in 0s

2017-06-19 18:29:39 (271 KB/s) - ‘setup-x86_64.exe.sig’ saved [72/72]


$ file setup-x86_64.exe
setup-x86_64.exe: PE32+ executable (GUI) x86-64, for MS Windows

$ gpg --verify setup-x86_64.exe.sig
gpg: assuming signed data in `setup-x86_64.exe'
gpg: Signature made Thu, Jun 15, 2017  8:50:31 PM CEST using DSA key ID 
676041BA
gpg: Good signature from "Cygwin <cygwin (at) cygwin.com>"
...



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