On Fri, Oct 04, 2002, Martin Konold wrote:
> it looks to me like the OpenPKG source bootstrapping procedure does depend on
> the availability of the traditional compress/uncompress.
>
> It came to my attention that due to patent issues the distribution of these
> programs is not allowed anymore.
>
> Therefore SuSE decided to not ship compress anymore starting with SuSE 8.0.
>
> SuSE proposes to use gzip instead of compress.
>
> ++ IFS=/
> ++ echo '' opt openpkg
> + d=/opt
> + '[' '!' -d /opt ']'
> + d=/opt/openpkg
> + '[' '!' -d /opt/openpkg ']'
> + uudecode openpkg-1.1.0-1.1.0.ix86-linux2.4-ope.sh
> + uncompress
>
> uncompress: stdin: not in gzip format
> + cd /opt/openpkg
> + tar xf -
> + rm -f openpkg-1.1.0-1.1.0.ix86-linux2.4-ope.tar.Z
>
> konold@alpha:~> rpm -qf `which uncompress`
> gzip-1.3-311
>
> What do you think?
>
> Should in the future gzip be a requirement for bootstrapping OpenPKG?
No, the bootstrap process just should fallback automatically to gzip
for uncompressing if uncompress is not available. But the compression
should be still done with compress only. Because compress is a smaller
denominator. This is now implemented with openpkg-2002105-2002105 and
higher. Thanks for the hint.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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