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- gzip_package v2.7, March 1998, 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
-
- v2.7, March 1998
- - fix bug that prevented pre_install script to funzip on (NeXT)
- systems without gunzip.
-
- v2.6, November 1997
- - Avoid spurious warnings from post_install script when invoked from
- outside Installer.app.
-
- 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--1997 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.
-
- ---
- Funzip is part of Info-ZIP's portable UnZip. To misquote id
- software, "As oxygen permeates our atmosphere, so should UnZip.
- 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: 2.6 $, $Date: 1998/03/04 20:34:10 $. Copyright © 1995--1997 Tom Hageman.]
-