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Date:      Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:20:05 +0100
From:      Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/unzip Makefile unzip.1 unzip.c
Message-ID:  <1199816405.74596.136.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200801080800.m08806jI012963@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200801080800.m08806jI012963@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav píše v út 08. 01. 2008 v 08:00 +0000:
> des         2008-01-08 08:00:06 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Added files:
>     usr.bin/unzip        Makefile unzip.1 unzip.c 
>   Log:
>   Welcome unzip(1), a pure BSD drop-in replacement for ports/unzip.  In its
>   current state, it can handle all but four of the 991 zip files (including
>   jar files) I was able to identify in the ports tree.  The remaining four
>   are two self-extracting archives and two which have garbage preceding the
>   first local header.  This limitation is a feature of libarchive(3) which
>   I am currently working to resolve.
>   
>   The code is unnecessarily large due to the need to emulate the exact
>   command-line syntax and behaviour of ports/unzip.  My initial incompatible
>   implementation was one quarter the size of the one I am committing here.

Is it a good idea to have the binary same name as the "real" unzip?

BTW we are on track to commit a patch to the ports framework that will
make it use tar(1) for extracting .zip files.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
              <pav@FreeBSD.org>
Traffic collapse in Paris starts whenever a traffic light changes color.
-- JLE at #angband

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