Re: RFS: makeself - utility to generate self-extractable archives
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 <megastep@megastep.org>
> 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
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