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On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:12:00PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:58:55PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: >> >>>Why the wget-1.8.1-1-src.tar.bz2 package does contain wget-1.8.1.tar.gz >>>? >>> >> >>That would be what is called in the software community "a mistake". >> >>Can this be corrected, asap, Hack? > > >??? > >Chris, are you disagreeing with this post ><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-04/msg00298.html>, or repudiating I'm referring to this passage in http://cygwin.com/setup.html: * Source packages are extracted in /usr/src. On extraction, the tar file should put the sources in a directory with the same name as the package tar ball minus the -src.tar.bz2 part: boffo-1.0-1/Makefile.in boffo-1.0-1/README boffo-1.0-1/configure boffo-1.0-1/configure.in etc... That is not the case for wget. cgf
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