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Tasklist

FS#6947 - gzip 1.3.12-1: symlinks

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Orivej Desh (George_K) - Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 17:50 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 19:36 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture i686
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.8 Voodoo
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Symlinks to gzip (like gunzip) no longer work!
The PKGBUILD must end with line 'mv $pkgname $startdir/pkg/bin'.
The same bug is reported as 6945, but real severity is critical.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 19:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Orivej Desh (George_K) - Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 18:12 GMT
Now gzip don`t use argv[0] to determine it`s behaviour, so any symlink (like gunzip) works the same way as gzip.

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