cvs commit: src/usr.bin/unzip Makefile unzip.1 unzip.c
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jan 13 14:51:36 PST 2008
Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>> Welcome unzip(1), ... 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.
>
> Impressive, indeed.
>
> Could you identify those four files? I want to take a look
> myself and see if one of the odd approaches I've been
> ruminating about might work.
>
> Of course, giving those four ports a build-time dependency
> on the Info-Zip version is arguably the right approach
> in any case.
That would probably be undesirable because it would mean having to
special case things in the ports tree and/or duplicate code.
Kris
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