Bug 2807

Summary:	drop unrar
Product:	Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component:	unrar	Assignee:	Conrad Meyer <konrad>
Status:	RESOLVED EXPIRED
Severity:	normal	CC:	andreas, hans, marcosfrm, metherid, piotrdrag, yhzwvqocdqtaflcm
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	GNU/Linux
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2013-05-20 23:12:05 CEST

I have recently introduced unar, a free and open source replacement for unrar in Fedora (file-roller can use it instead of unrar and ark is in the reviewing patches to support it) and I could add a Provides:unrar to that provide and we can drop unrar entirely from RPM Fusion if you are open to that.   Thanks!

Comment 1 Hans de Goede 2013-05-24 11:21:47 CEST

Hi,

Good to hear about unar, is it commandline compatible?

If so I would leak to see an unrar symlink + Obsoletes / Provides added to unar, and when that is done unrar can be retired from rpmfusion.

If it is not commandline compatible, it is probably better to keep unrar around as people may have custom scripts, etc. depending on it.

Regards,

Hans

Comment 2 Rahul Sundaram 2013-05-24 16:04:49 CEST

It isn't command line compatible.  I will leave it upto you to decide whether to drop or not.  I would suggest keeping it for now until the point Ark supports it anyway.

Comment 3 Marcos Mello 2013-09-06 19:33:31 CEST

Does unar support the new RAR 5.0 archiving format?

Comment 4 Rahul Sundaram 2013-09-06 22:10:08 CEST

Feel free to test and report any issues upstream

Comment 5 Sami Farin 2015-11-07 19:49:52 CET

RAR 5 does not work, don't drop unrar.

  Embedded RAR 5
  Archive parsing failed! (Attempted to read more data than was available.)

https://bitbucket.org/WAHa_06x36/theunarchiver/issues/685/add-support-for-rar-5

Comment 6 Rahul Sundaram 2015-11-08 02:38:58 CET

This isn't really an open request anymore.  Closing.