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This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems
1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
Integrate unrar
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Vladimir Marek
1.3 Date of This Document:
08 December, 2008
4. Technical Description
Proposal:
Integrate unrar into OpenSolaris
Release Binding:
Minor
Detail:
Unrar is a commandline utility to list, test and extract files from
popular RAR archives. Adding unrar to OpenSolaris will also extend
file-roller utility on OpenSolaris. file-roller is ready to support
RAR format but the actual extraction utility (either "rar" or
"unrar") has to be in the path. This info comes from file-roller source
code of file-roller, version 2.22.3 (snv_96).
unrar does not provide any functionality to create RAR archives. This
functionality is provided by WinRAR and RAR utilities, which are not
not open sourced, so they cannot be ported to OpenSolaris.
The current version of unrar is 3.8.2 at the time of this case.
Note, that p7zip is also able to extract RAR files. However, since
the RAR format is rather popular and unrar utility can be found in all
major Linux distribution it still makes sense to have it ported to
OpenSolaris (it is not a common knowledge to use p7zip for extracting
RAR files).
Exported Interfaces:
SUNWunrar Uncommitted Package name
/usr/bin/unrar Committed Executable location
unrar Volatile Commandline syntax
Documentation Impact:
New man page unrar(1) (see case directory).
References:
[1] Sources can be obtained at http://www.rarsoft.com/rar_add.htm
License (see case directory)
[2] 6691161 Mising rar archive extractor
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR
[4] http://www.win-rar.com/
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
SFW
6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
