Well, Too much SPAM in my mailbox, maybe I didn't see your email in the middle of the pile of crap I found on Monday (something about 350 messages in INBOX, not including mailing-list messages...)(I didn't read mails last weekend)....
I'll take a look on it... Em Ter, 2004-03-23 às 17:02, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo escreveu: > Hello. > > I would like to find sponsor for my package which fixes two outstanding > bugs: > > #239620: makeself: wrongly set architecture header > Severity: *serious* > > #239614: makeself - Description improvement > Severity: minor > > Here goes rest of relevant information: > > Package : makeself > License : GPL > Author name : Stéphane Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > URL : http://www.megastep.org/makeself/ > Short description : utility to generate self-extractable archives > Long description : > makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractible > archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script > (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is. The > archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an > optional arbitrary command will be executed (for example an installation > script). This is pretty similar to archives generated with WinZip > Self-Extractor in the Windows world. Makeself archives also include > checksums for integrity self-validation (CRC and/or MD5 checksums). > > The makeself script itself is used only to create the archives from a > directory of files. The resultant archive is actually a compressed > (using gzip, bzip2, or compress) TAR archive, with a small shell script > stub at the beginning. This small stub performs all the steps of > extracting the files, running the embedded command, and removing the > temporary files when it's all over. All what the user has to do to > install the software contained in such an archive is to "run" the > archive, i.e sh nice-software.run. I recommend using the "run" (which > was introduced by some Makeself archives released by Loki Software) or > "sh" suffix for such archives not to confuse the users, since they it's > actually shell scripts (with quite a lot of binary data attached to it > though!). > > I tried to contact my previous sponsor but he hasn't replied yet (since > Saturday). I'll be very thankful for sponsoring this package for me, > especially because of that serious bug. > > Package is available at: http://skawina.eu.org/makeself/ > > regards > fEnIo
