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Date:      Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:26:06 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/unzip Makefile unzip.1 unzip.c
Message-ID:  <478A8FFE.8080602@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200801080800.m08806jI012963@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200801080800.m08806jI012963@repoman.freebsd.org>

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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.

Tim Kientzle



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