Removing the dependency on unzip - use bsdtar

Ed Schouten ed at fxq.nl
Mon Jan 23 12:25:06 PST 2006


* Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> Can you develop a prototype patch that DTRT on all supported versions
> (e.g. 4.x where you can't use bsdtar, or at least you have to use the
> port?), and converts a representative sample of ports so that we can
> see the impact?

Yes, I can. The current patch should already work on FreeBSD 4.x, but
I'll test it and add fixes for a lot of other ports.

I wrote a small shell-script that gave back a list of ports that are
most likely affected (checking for EXTRACT_*_ARGS, unzip and UNZIP_CMD);
about a hundred:

	http://g-rave.nl/junk/ports-faulty-zip.txt

Ruud and I shall to fix as much of them as possible.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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