On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Greg Alexander wrote: > Hello - > > I am writing in regards to bug #192253 on bugs.debian.org, > reporting that unzip cannot handle 2GB-4GB zip files. > A patch to fix this problem is provided in 2003 by Paul Slootman. > The upstream version has not been updated to correct this problem, > and it appears that debian is waiting on upstream to confirm Paul's > patch. The only possible point of failure I see in the patch would be > in dealing with files that are in some way actually >4GB (for one, > file format restrictions come into play).
As you rightly point out, the current code will never manage files larger than 4GB, so the proposed patch is "bread for today, hunger for tomorrow". The real code that should be tested is in unzip 6.0, which is in beta. For your benefit, I have prepared a do-it-yourself kit to have a debian package for unzip 6.0c (beta version). Install build-essential and fakeroot in your system, then try this on a scratch directory: wget http://people.debian.org/~sanvila/unzip-beta/build sh build I don't want to ditribute the .deb myself for now because it's a beta and the authors discourage it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
