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Re: Does pkg on Windows no longer support zip?


From: Mike Miller
Subject: Re: Does pkg on Windows no longer support zip?
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:21:49 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 12:54:00 -0800, Colin Macdonald wrote:
> I tried the 5.1 w64 Windows installer today.  Then I tried to install
> Symbolic using the ".zip" file and I got:
> 
> >> pkg install symbolic-win-py-bundle-2.7.1.zip
> unpack: unarchiving program exited with status: 2
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> error: called from
>     unpack at line 274 column 5
>     untar at line 48 column 5
>     install at line 81 column 9
>     pkg at line 441 column 9
> 
> Apologies for not noting earlier but I don't often have Windows access.
> 
> If this is by-design I will make a .tar.gz version of the Symbolic bundle.

The 'unpack' function is in the call stack. I think the intent is that
'unpack' handles any kind of archive file. But I can reproduce, looks
like a regression from 4.4.

-- 
mike

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