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Posted: Sep. 19 2007,04:56

For software packages that have many regressions or changes per release, it would be ideal to keep all of them.
This could include things like wine, drivers (like video), X... amongst others.

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Posted: Sep. 19 2007,13:49

WDef:
'wine-0.9.42.uci' has been sent to extensions@damnsmalllinux.org.
If you need it quickly, it is also on rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/56781953/wine-0.9.42.uci.html

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Posted: Sep. 20 2007,14:19

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Sep. 16 2007,21:04)

re: rar/7z: If yours are newer versions than the one I have previously posted, please request to have them replaced (as I don't think anyone would necessarily require older versions of these applications)

Oh dear.. I read your reply two days ago but I forgot all about it.
I sent in 'p7zip.tar.gz' and 'unrar.tar.gz' just a few hrs ago.
I have sent another email to Robert and told him NOT to put them up.
I am very sorry!

p.s.
(1) mydsl/system/p7zip-4.42.tar.gz is 2.4M.
(I see this is the full 7zip which supports a great range of formats besides just 7z.)
'p7zip.tar.gz' which I submitted is the 'reduced' 7zip - the binary is called '7zr' - it supports only 7z/LZMA/BCJ/BCJ2.
It is small (176K) and is intended for use with the 'cdisplay' script (mydsl/testing/cdisplay.tar.gz) for decompressing .7z archives, so the other formats won't be used at all.

(2) mydsl/system/rar.dsl is 296K ('rar' + 'unrar'); I submitted the 'unrar' binary as 'unrar.tar.gz' (70K).

(3) I think 'unrar.tar.gz' can be abandoned since 'rar.dsl' is only a little bigger. But regarding p7zip - I still wish to submit '7zr', but I don't know what name to use. May I ask you what you think? (BTW, in Debian, '7zr' is called 'p7zip' and the full-featured '7z' is called 'p7zip-full' - maybe we could do this as well?)

Thank you very much, and very sorry for my mistake.

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Posted: Sep. 20 2007,23:10

Typically I keep the naming convention similar to uci's, that it's in /opt/filename so it becomes filename.extension
What is your file tree structure?

Although it would be fine to put both in since they have different filenames, I agree that something more explicit should be used. However, because of the above, I'm not sure how to proceed.

Since yours is only unrar and its a .tar.gz, I think you should still submit that one.

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Posted: Sep. 21 2007,07:25

1. '7zr' is a standalone, so the file tree is really simple:

Code Sample

tar -zcvf p7zip.tar.gz --numeric-owner /opt/bin/7zr /opt/bin/p7zip

'/opt/bin/p7zip' is a wrapper script that emulates gzip.
e.g. 'p7zip -d foo.tar.7z' (This will run '7zr' to decompress the file.)

2. Regarding the naming: Perhaps 'p7zip' and 'p7zip-full' can make more sense if they are put together in 'mydsl/system/'. When 'p7zip' is seen alone, people have no idea that it is actually a limited version. As for 'p7zip-lite', it seems wrong - '7zr' has core .7z support after all, so it is not a 'reduced-functionality' version as seems to be implied by '-lite'. So, I don't have any better idea than what Debian is using - 'p7zip' & 'p7zip-full'.

3. About 'unrar' - thanks very much. I will resubmit it then.

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