We are hungry today. Worry about tomorrow when it gets here. I am trying to improve the Debian distribution so that its unzip utility is at least as powerful as Windows'.
Thanks, - Greg On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:56:28PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Greg Alexander wrote: > > > Hello - > > > > I am writing in regards to bug #192253 on bugs.debian.org, > > reporting that unzip cannot handle 2GB-4GB zip files. > > A patch to fix this problem is provided in 2003 by Paul Slootman. > > The upstream version has not been updated to correct this problem, > > and it appears that debian is waiting on upstream to confirm Paul's > > patch. The only possible point of failure I see in the patch would be > > in dealing with files that are in some way actually >4GB (for one, > > file format restrictions come into play). > > As you rightly point out, the current code will never manage files larger > than 4GB, so the proposed patch is "bread for today, hunger for tomorrow". > > The real code that should be tested is in unzip 6.0, which is in beta. > > For your benefit, I have prepared a do-it-yourself kit to have a debian > package for unzip 6.0c (beta version). > > Install build-essential and fakeroot in your system, then try this on > a scratch directory: > > wget http://people.debian.org/~sanvila/unzip-beta/build > sh build > > I don't want to ditribute the .deb myself for now because it's a beta > and the authors discourage it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
