On Aug 7 20:31, Peter Li wrote: > This builds out of the box; I just pulled the packaging files from > cygports (thanks!). Think it's worth adding to main distro though. > > It's in most distros: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/pbzip2?_csrf_token=ad400067b7e05d4afe0cb7e74860399022796bce > http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/pbzip2 > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=pbzip2 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/archivers/pbzip2/ > > category: Archive > requires: libbz2_1 libgcc1 libstdc++6 > sdesc: "Parallel BZIP2 de/compressor" > ldesc: "PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting > file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on > SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2." > > > If I get a green light I'll go ahead and upload the package from my > laptop when I get a moment.
Sure. Usually you ITP with URLs to the package files already. It's not so much a question of allowance, but of your intention to maintain a package in the Cygwin distro. > Separately, I'm curious what the upshot was on this earlier > discussion of pbzip2 incompatibilities: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-03/msg00160.html I think that's fixed in setup. Jon applied a couple of patches to setup on 2011-04-08 which are related, AFAICS. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
