#7865 closed task (overcomebyevents)
Manual check for zip and unzip (placeholder)
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | hold |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | minor | Keywords: | |
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Description ¶
The zip and unzip programs have not been updated in about seven years. Upstream makes it very difficult to check for updates via the currency checks.
Check for new versions prior to a new BLFS release.
Change History (9)
comment:1 by , 9 years ago
comment:2 by , 8 years ago
| Summary: | Manual check for zip and unzip (placholder) → Manual check for zip and unzip (placeholder) |
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comment:3 by , 8 years ago
Any interest in replacing these with minizip/miniunzip included with the zlib source tarball? More info: http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html For our use, the demo programs should probably be fine (though I haven't actually verified this). No idea on the consequences of the current UTF-8 issues but at least this is maintained with zlib. Most of the distros ignore the demos, but do install the library. There are probably others, but VLC is the only package in BLFS that I know can use it.
cd contrib/minizip &&
autoreconf -i &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-demos &&
make &&
make install &&
install -vm644 mini{,un}zip.1 /usr/share/man/man1
comment:4 by , 8 years ago
I'm not really interested. Looking at the extracted files, zlib was last updated in 2005. unzip is still old, built not that old -- 2009. I don't think either is maintained.
I suspect both would work for our purposes, but making a change would be work for an older package for no perceivable gain.
comment:5 by , 8 years ago
Unchanged as of 2017-02-12 -- good for BLFS-8.0
The most recent releases were in 2008/2009.
comment:7 by , 8 years ago
Their ftp seems to be back up, and it can be used again in currency scripts and in the book.
Unchanged as of 2016-08-28 -- good for BLFS-7.10