Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/time/cardboard-schedule

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 05:17:31AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 04:08:36PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 06:14:47AM +0000, David A. Holland wrote:
>  > > 2. Because there's a self-extracting archive, NetBSD's builtin unzip
>  > > doesn't work. When ${OPSYS} is NetBSD, explicitly depend on
>  > > archivers/unzip instead of adding unzip to USE_TOOLS. (I'm not sure
>  > > this is the right way to go about this. It at least works though.)
>  > 
>  > Slightly wrong reasoning. The problem is not that it is a
>  > self-extracting archive, but that it is an extremely long executable
>  > module in front of the ZIP archive. Libarchive scans for the ZIP header
>  > in the first 124k of the binary, but this file has over 160KB of garbage
>  > in front.
> 
> So maybe a more general method would be to slash 128k or so from the
> beginning of the file; can (both standard and our) unzip work from
> stdin?

Only using /dev/stdin.

Joerg