Re: unzip in basesystem

From: Alex Kozlov <spam_at_rm-rf.kiev.ua>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 07:32:01 +0300
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 03:25:39AM -0700, Rob Farmer wrote:
> Unfortunately there are some problems with the base system unzip that
> make it preferable to use the port. From the commit log for
> bsd.port.mk:
> 
>   9-CURRENT introduced unzip command to the base system.  Unfortunately it is
>   not fully compatible with the archivers/unzip implementation and non-trivial
>   amount of ports fail to build when using it.  Thus we will keep using
>   archivers/unzip for unzipping source in Ports Collection until someone
>   volunteer to fix all individual ports.  Two most common problems with base
>   unzip are:
>   * extracting files without +x flag (some ports rely to execute unzipped
>     configure scripts, for example)
>   * different semantics of CR/LF conversion
Some time ago I made a patch that fixes this problem.
 
Also about 100 ports have explicit dependency on archivers/unzip.

>   Error logs of failed port builds with in-base unzip can be made available on
>   request to portmgr_at_.
Please send it to From address.


--
Adios

Received on Thu May 06 2010 - 02:32:36 UTC

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