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Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Zipper state
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Sebastian Reitenbach |
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Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Zipper state |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:36:00 +0100 |
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On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:01 CET, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have found Zipper's state to be quite Abysmal. I checked the tar and
> zip handling for now.
>
> Zip handling mostly works if the standard unzip is used. NetBSD uses an
> unzip which does not support -qq. Minor problem.
> Date parsing did not work. I fixed it on my box. But I fear that this
> has impacts on other computers? The parse strings were wrong.
I had the same problems, but fixed them away with patches in the OpenBSD source
tree.
>
> Tar handling
> GNU-tar : mostly worked, but date parsing was bad
same here for me.
> bsd-tar: On NetBSD no archive could be opened, crashes exceptions. I
> fixed it. BSD tar has two date formats if the year is current or not.
> Also, there is a trailing line at the end.
Same here for me on OpenBSD. I did not found a good way to parse the dates for
the
BSD tar. Maybe we should just not support it? On OpenBSD, I patched Zipper to
default
to use the GNU tar. (which is installed anyways, due to the gnustep-make
package requires
gnu tar)
>
> It works for me now. But how was and is the state on OpenBSD? NetBSD?
> and other systems like Solaris?
>
> A lot needs to be done and checked I fear... the code was/is quite fragile.
I'll check in the next couple of days in OpenBSD and openSUSE, I'll also test
with some other archivers.
Sebastian
>
> Riccardo