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
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