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README gzip_package v2.5, December 1996, by Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl>
Gzip_package tries to reduce the size of NEXTSTEP Installer packages.
It achieves this by replacing the package's contents archive, which is
compressed using compress(1), with a gzip(1)ped version of the archive.
Since Installer expects a compress(1)ed contents archive at installation
time, gzip_package also installs special pre_ and post_install scripts
to automatically convert the contents archive back to its original
compressed form before actual installation. (If the original package
contained pre_ and post_install scripts, these will still be executed,
of course.)
INSTALLATION
Type "make install". This installs gzip_package and gunzip_package (as
a hard link to gzip_package) in /usr/local/bin, and the manual pages in
/usr/local/man/man1. If you want to install the distribution somewhere
else than /usr/local, you can override the make variable "prefix", e.g.
with the command "make prefix=/foo/bar install".
The directories ${prefix}/bin and ${prefix}/man/man1 are created if they
do not yet exist prior to installation.
HISTORY
v2.5, December 1996
- Preserve permissions of files and directories inside package. Force
removal of backups, even if it contains readonly subdirectories.
(gnutar still changes permission of readonly directories to
user-writeable though. Not much to be done about that...)
- --unzip now removes gzip_package-specific *.pre_ *.and post_install
scripts from the package.
v2.4, November 1996 (not released)
- Fixed yet another NFS-mount related bug.
v2.3, February 1996
- Avoid pre_install corruption when GNU sed v?.?? is installed.
[as reported by Gregor Hoffleit <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>]
v2.2, December 1995 (not released)
- Added -i, --info option.
- Fixed bug that crashed gzip_package when the package it worked on
was located on an NFS-mounted volume.
v2.1, July 1995
- Allow multiple *.pkg arguments.
- Improved error detection in installed *.pre_ and *.post_install scripts.
- Fix non-serious bug in package expansion message.
v1.7, March 1995
- First public release.
LEGALIA
Copyright (C) 1994--1996 Tom R. Hageman.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this software; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Please distribute freely." Info-ZIP's software (Zip,
UnZip and related utilities) is free and can be obtained
as source code or executables from various bulletin board
services and anonymous-ftp sites, including CompuServe's
IBMPRO forum and ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip/*.
[gzip_package README $Revision: 2.4 $, $Date: 1996/12/21 14:15:52 $. Copyright 1995,1996 Tom Hageman.]
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