[OpenPKG #294] openpkg-20031127 does not need uudecode but tests for it

2003-12-01 Thread Thomas Lotterer via RT 
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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
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   Queue: openpkg
   Owner: thl
  Status: resolved
 Transaction: Status changed from new to resolved by thl
Time: Mon Dec 01 16:07:57 2003
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[OpenPKG #294] openpkg-20031127 does not need uudecode but tests for it

2003-12-01 Thread Thomas Lotterer via RT 
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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