Re: 2.9.11?

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Apr-2007, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| On 4/19/07, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
| > The biggest remaining issue for a testing release for me is the package
| > manager. Till debian, fedora and MSVC builds sign off on the package
| > manager I don't think 2.9.11 will be really considered as a testing
| > release by the distributions..So it might be nice to check on the
| > progress of the use of the package manager for these three, to at least
| > avoid any hurried 2.9.12 release if possible.
| 
| Concerning MSVC, I could get to a point where the package unpacks and
| compiles OK. To achieve this, I had to introduce 2 hacks:
| 1) "unpack" relies on gunzip/bunzip2: even if MSYS tools are in your PATH,
| those decompressing tools are usually simple shell scripts that call 
gzip/bzip2.
| As the command is executed through "system" (so Windows command
| prompt), shell scripts cannot be executed. The easy fix is to use "gzip -d"
| and "bzip2 -d" instead

So this change?  Or are there uses of gunzip and bunzip2 somewhere
else that I didn't find?

jwe


scripts/ChangeLog:

2007-04-19  John W. Eaton  <address@hidden>

        * miscellaneous/unpack.m: Use gzip -d and bzip2 -d instead of
        gunzip and bunzip.  From Michael Goffioul <address@hidden>.


Index: scripts/miscellaneous/unpack.m
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/octave/scripts/miscellaneous/unpack.m,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -u -r1.4 unpack.m
--- scripts/miscellaneous/unpack.m      27 Oct 2006 04:28:33 -0000      1.4
+++ scripts/miscellaneous/unpack.m      19 Apr 2007 17:04:43 -0000
@@ -114,23 +114,23 @@
   ##   bzip2 and gzip decompress the file at its location).
   persistent commandlist;
   if (isempty (commandlist))
-    commandlist.gz = {"gunzip -v -r \"%s\"", ...
-                     "gunzip -r \"%s\"", ...
+    commandlist.gz = {"gzip -d -v -r \"%s\"", ...
+                     "gzip -d -r \"%s\"", ...
                      @__parse_gzip__, true};
     commandlist.z = commandlist.gz;
-    commandlist.bz2 = {"bunzip2 -v \"%s\"", ...
-                      "bunzip2 \"%s\"", ...
+    commandlist.bz2 = {"bzip2 -d -v \"%s\"", ...
+                      "bzip2 -d \"%s\"", ...
                       @__parse_bzip2__, true};
     commandlist.bz = commandlist.bz2;
     commandlist.tar = {"tar -x -v -f \"%s\"", ...
                       "tar -x -f \"%s\"", ...
                       @__parse_tar__, false};
-    commandlist.targz = {"gunzip -c \"%s\" | tar -x -v", ...
-                        "gunzip -c \"%s\" | tar -x", ...
+    commandlist.targz = {"gzip -d -c \"%s\" | tar -x -v", ...
+                        "gzip -d -c \"%s\" | tar -x", ...
                         @__parse_tar__, false};
     commandlist.tgz = commandlist.targz;
-    commandlist.tarbz2 = {"bunzip2 -c \"%s\" | tar -x -v", ...
-                         "bunzip2 -c \"%s\" | tar -x", ...
+    commandlist.tarbz2 = {"bzip2 -d -c \"%s\" | tar -x -v", ...
+                         "bzip2 -d -c \"%s\" | tar -x", ...
                          @__parse_tar__, false};
     commandlist.tarbz = commandlist.tarbz2;
     commandlist.tbz2 = commandlist.tarbz2;