[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs zutils

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 24.02.2010 um 21:36 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Dagobert Michelsen  
> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> * zutils: new package
>>  + zutils-0.7,REV=2010.02.24-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
>>  + zutils-0.7,REV=2010.02.24-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
>>
>> --
>
> Errr.. WHY do we want this?
> seems like "Yet Another implementation of..."  the stuff that already
> comes with GNU tools.
>
> 1 f none /opt/csw/bin/Zcat 0755 root bin 3394 4146 1267007705
> 1 f none /opt/csw/bin/Zcmp 0755 root bin 85 6292 1267007705
> 1 f none /opt/csw/bin/Zdiff 0755 root bin 4685 36088 1267007705
> ....

It is not. The gzip tools support compress and gzip. This implementation
support every current compression method including lzma, 7zip and xz.
They work similar, hence the similar name.


Best regards

   -- Dago