Re: [Bug-tar] gzip 1.3.11 released for testing

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 05 February 2007, Paul Eggert wrote: > I'm happy to announce the release of gzip 1.3.11. > > gzip (GNU zip) is a popular data compression program written by > Jean-Loup Gailly for the GNU project; Mark Adler wrote the > decompression part. > > This gzip release modifies gzip to follow the

Re: zdiff shows no difference when comparing two gzipped files

2007-07-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 28 July 2007, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Package: gzip > Version: 1.3.12 > > For completeness, I've tested this with bash 3.1dfsg-8 and dash 0.5.3-7. in order to properly investigate a bug report, you'll need to include information on how to reproduce the problems you're seeing pleas

bz2 release tarballs

2007-08-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
would it be possible to see .tar.bz2 releases of gzip ? not for the "gzip vs bzip2" debate, but for the case where gzip is broken on a system :) -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: bz2 release tarballs

2007-08-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 13 August 2007, Karl Berry wrote: > would it be possible to see .tar.bz2 releases of gzip ? not for the > "gzip vs bzip2" debate, but for the case where gzip is broken on a > system :) > > That's why there is a plain .tar available (e.g., > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3

Re: Gzip on secure sites.

2007-08-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 17 August 2007, Suresh Namburi wrote: > Is gzip compression will work on secure sites (https :); in theory, compression and encryption are two very different things my guess is you want to know about apache transmitting pages with gzip compression even when viewing over ssl ... that's

Re: gzip doesn't respect DESTDIR

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Dennis Heuer wrote: > i installed a fresh system to another partition and found that gzip > doesn't respect the DESTDIR variable for use with make install to > redirect the installation. please support this feature. please provide some real information. gzip-1.3.12 def

Re: keep orginal file

2008-05-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 16 May 2008, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > eliz wrote: > > Hi > > i want to keep the orginal file in the same folder using gzip for > > that what i do ? > > Um. I could've sworn there was an option for that, but I can't find it. > I guess you have to do 'gzip -c -d foo.gz > foo'. odd that

Re: error

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 20 April 2009 08:15:07 Nagabhushan_Kc wrote: > While compiling make file (command: make run under windows using cygwin) I > am getting below error. > > echo -n exec genAns ":" >> ./build.log.txt; > ./genANS.exe > echo -n OK ":" >> ./build.log.txt; > echo -n isacc "(check) :" >> ./build.lo

Re: gzip-1.3.14 released [beta]

2009-10-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 30 October 2009 15:15:28 Jim Meyering wrote: > This is to announce a beta release of gzip. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ > > Actually I'm convinced that this is production quality software, but there > has been so little feedback, I'm going to err on the side of caution and

Re: FEATURE REQUEST: recognize tgz and tbz2 as a compression suffixes

2009-12-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:55:15 Jari Aalto wrote: > Please add support to recognize *.tgz and *.tbz2 suffixes as valid > standard compressions extensions. why would gzip care about any bzip2 suffixes ? -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: fix for CVE-2010-0001, gzip-1.4 to be released shortly

2010-01-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 11:01:31 Jim Meyering wrote: > Here's the patch for CVE-2010-0001, > along with a test to exercise the offending code. > > I expect to release gzip-1.4 within the next few hours. > > From a3db5806d012082b9e25cc36d09f19cd736a468f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jim Me

Re: fix for CVE-2010-0001, gzip-1.4 to be released shortly

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 01 February 2010 03:54:02 Jim Meyering wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 11:01:31 Jim Meyering wrote: > >> Here's the patch for CVE-2010-0001, > >> along with a test to exercise the offending code. > >> > >>

[PATCH] zless: support compressed stdin

2011-12-21 Thread Mike Frysinger
Trying to use zless on stdin doesn't currently work: $ echo foo | gzip - > foo.gz $ zless < foo.gz Lift some code from xzless and use the pipe feature of newer less versions so this does work as expected. Reported-by: Jeroen Roovers Signed-off-by: Mik

Re: supporting -k/--keep?

2012-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
esn't apply and had style issues. i've also left the pkzip option alone for when someone cares to actually do something with it. -mike From c4e569a4a6e73701512b8e07e0e6e6d500d7586d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 01:13:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] gzip: a

merging --rsyncable support ?

2012-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
some distros have been carrying an --rsyncable patch for quite some time (the Fedora version is below). could this possibly be merged into mainline ? -mike diff -up gzip-1.3.13/deflate.c.rsync gzip-1.3.13/deflate.c --- gzip-1.3.13/deflate.c.rsync 2009-09-26 20:43:28.0 +0200 +++ gzip-1.3.1

bug#23532: git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gzip.git isn’t accessible to non members.

2016-05-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 13 May 2016 09:47, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 05/13/2016 05:32 AM, none wrote: > > Please restore access to git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gzip.git for > > everyone. > > It works for me. I think Savannah had some problems yesterday, so > perhaps you just observed a performance glitch. yeah, not som

bug#25538: uncompressed gzip releases please

2017-03-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 26 Jan 2017 10:04, Jason Leschnik wrote: > On 26 Jan 2017 9:35 AM, "Karl Berry" wrote: > > Please make gzip releases in some non-gzip/xz/lzip/bzip form, that is, > > uncompressed or .zip. > > The user didn't have the ability to install 7zip? or a precompiled version of gzip that people have m

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,