Request 294 was acted upon.
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URL: https://rt.openpkg.org/id/294
Ticket: [OpenPKG #294]
Subject: openpkg-20031127 does not need uudecode but tests for it
Requestors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queue: openpkg
Owner: Nobody
Status: new
Transaction: Ticket created by thl
Time: Mon Dec 01 10:00:57 2003
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Logged after fixing to remember issue.
Linux systems use uudecode from GNU sharutils und moved it from the core
OS into a package. Some vendors have made this package optional. It is
known that redhat9 and suse9 have sharutils omitted by default.
OpenPKG has used uudecode for bootstrapping in the past.
This requirement was removed with openpkg-20031019, see
http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=13071
However, the bootstrap also had a check for uudecode
presence which was not removed until openpkg-20031129, see
http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=13576
Workaround is to install sharutils.
Solution is to use openpkg-20031129 or later.
WARNING: the solution is incomplete as it has known side effects when
packages previously required uudecode now fail until they are modified
to work without or explicitly require sharutils. It is known that
ncurses-5.3.20031129-20031130 and all earlier versions inherit this
problem.
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