Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 20:18:37 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/146 Message-ID: <Mutt.19961217201837.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <9612171520.AA32054@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Dec 17, 1996 10:20:16 -0500 References: <199612162023.MAA29815@freefall.freebsd.org> <14069.850772007@critter.tfs.com> <9612171520.AA32054@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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According to Garrett Wollman:
> Actually, I don't see any reason why, given the existence of this
> package, `compress' can't just be moved out to ports. gzip already
> does `uncompress' perfectly well (because LZW is only patented on the
> compression, not the decompression).
I've submitted a long time ago the following patch. Didn't heard anything
at the time, maybe it is time to submit it again...
Index: gnu/usr.bin/gzip/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /spare/FreeBSD-current/src/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -2 -r1.12 Makefile
--- Makefile 1996/08/28 15:45:32 1.12
+++ Makefile 1996/08/30 20:23:33
@@ -7,4 +7,5 @@
MAN1= gzexe.1 gzip.1 zdiff.1 zforce.1 zmore.1 znew.1 zgrep.1
CFLAGS+=-DASMV -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DDIRENT=1
+MLINKS= gzip.1 gunzip.1 gzip.1 zcat.1 gzip.1 gzcat.1 gzip.1 uncompress.1
MLINKS= gzip.1 gunzip.1 gzip.1 zcat.1 gzip.1 gzcat.1
MLINKS+= zgrep.1 zfgrep.1 zgrep.1 zegrep.1
@@ -13,4 +14,5 @@
LINKS+= ${BINDIR}/gzip ${BINDIR}/gzcat
LINKS+= ${BINDIR}/gzip ${BINDIR}/zcat
+LINKS+= ${BINDIR}/gzip ${BINDIR}/uncompress
LINKS+= ${BINDIR}/zgrep ${BINDIR}/zegrep
LINKS+= ${BINDIR}/zgrep ${BINDIR}/zfgrep
Index: usr.bin/compress/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /spare/FreeBSD-current/src/usr.bin/compress/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -2 -r1.3 Makefile
--- Makefile 1996/07/02 23:04:32 1.3
+++ Makefile 1996/07/11 20:09:47
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
PROG= compress
SRCS= compress.c zopen.c
-LINKS= ${BINDIR}/compress ${BINDIR}/uncompress
+#LINKS= ${BINDIR}/compress ${BINDIR}/uncompress
MLINKS= compress.1 uncompress.1
--
Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #31: Tue Dec 3 23:52:58 CET 1996
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