bug#26088: BusyBox support

2017-03-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 13 Mar 2017 16:43, Paul Eggert wrote: > Thanks, I installed the attached patch to attempt to work around the > problems you reported. > > Could you please explain how ignoring the 'less -V' failure causes zless > to work on BusyBox? BusyBox 'less' ignores the LESSOPEN environment > variable,

bug#26088: BusyBox support

2017-03-13 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks, I installed the attached patch to attempt to work around the problems you reported. Could you please explain how ignoring the 'less -V' failure causes zless to work on BusyBox? BusyBox 'less' ignores the LESSOPEN environment variable, so if zless uses Busybox 'less' then zless should n

bug#26088: BusyBox support

2017-03-13 Thread Denys Zagorui
package: gzip 1.8 1. zless util don't support 'less' from busybox package. zless trying to figure out the version of 'less', it is launch 'less' with key -V, and 'less' from busybox don't understand this flag. When i change this verification zless works fine with 'less' from busybox. 2. test

bug#25538: uncompressed gzip releases please

2017-03-13 Thread Jim Meyering
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Please make gzip releases in some non-gzip/xz/lzip/bzip form, that is, > uncompressed or .zip. > > I and a colleague just had to waste time explaining to a user how to > download an old version available as .tar, compile it, and then use that >