[gentoo-user] Re: unix2dos blocks dos2unix

2014-09-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras

On 14/09/14 10:24, Gevisz wrote:

I have just installed unix2dos utility
(never had a need to use it before) and
just after that tried to install dos2unix
but the installation of dos2unix failed
complaining on the fact that

app-text/unix2dos is blocking app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5

I find it very strange as I think that if someone
needs unix2dos utility he usually also needs dos2unix
utility, especially taking into account that unix2dos
by default overwrites its input file.


There's also app-text/tofrodos. It installs two binaries, todos and 
fromdos.  It solved some problems the other tools had (unix2dos and 
dos2unix), but it's been long ago and I don't remember which problems 
they were...





Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unix2dos blocks dos2unix

2014-09-16 Thread Kerin Millar

On 16/09/2014 15:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

On 14/09/14 10:24, Gevisz wrote:

I have just installed unix2dos utility
(never had a need to use it before) and
just after that tried to install dos2unix
but the installation of dos2unix failed
complaining on the fact that

app-text/unix2dos is blocking app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5

I find it very strange as I think that if someone
needs unix2dos utility he usually also needs dos2unix
utility, especially taking into account that unix2dos
by default overwrites its input file.


There's also app-text/tofrodos. It installs two binaries, todos and
fromdos.  It solved some problems the other tools had (unix2dos and
dos2unix), but it's been long ago and I don't remember which problems
they were...


Alternatively:

cd /usr/local/bin; echo dos2unix unix2dos | xargs -n1 ln -s /bin/busybox

--Kerin