> On Mon, May 11 1998, Petr Cech wrote: > | Hello, > | is anybody working on packaging of rar? It's an archive program from > | a Russian programmer Eugene Roshal. It's shareware (so non-free) programm > | with binaries available for dos, Windows(3.x,95) - both text and graphic mode, > | Linux, BSD,HP,SCO,Amiga,OS/2 & Sparc. > | Avaiting comments > Hi, > I found a source-code package for unrar 2.01 (not the latest version) a > few months ago: you can find it yourself on FTPSearch as 'unrar201.tgz'. > It claims to be freeware, but does not allow distribution of modified and yes, the source for unrar is included in rar distribution (search for rarlinux.sfx) > sources. I was considering asking the author to allow portability/bug > patches, but I've since decided I didn't really care enough about unrar > to bother. If you're interested, I strongly suggest persuing that, as and yes, distribution in unmodified form only :(( > having a source-based package means we can do more about any bugs > present. > > BTW, do they have a Linux version compiled against libc6 (a.k.a. > glibc2)? No, at least I haven't found one. I try to contact the author and make him package the files in .tar.gz (unmodified dist. files :)) and allow patches for unrar. If I could made him do a libc6 compile, it would be great. Can anybody give me some advice on how to do it? For whom should I speak, what to request (repackage it, patches, change licence?). Many thanks for suggestions Petr Cech -- / mailto: cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz \ | PGP: finger cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz | \ C75B671E75117038 43BE6B9AC09C3318 /
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