7290 – failure to emerge unlzx

Bug 7290 - failure to emerge unlzx

Summary: failure to emerge unlzx

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-08-31 06:00 UTC by Adam Mercer
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Adam Mercer 2002-08-31 06:00:02 UTC

skymoo root # emerge unlzx
Calculating dependencies   

emerge: all ebuilds that could satisfy "unlzx" have been masked.
skymoo root # 


skymoo root # emerge --version
Portage 2.0.33

Comment 1 Adam Mercer 2002-08-31 06:17:29 UTC

specifying the complete path to the ebuild ie

emerge /usr/portage/app-sci/unlzx/unlzx-1.1.ebuild

works.

Comment 2 Maurizio Disimino 2002-08-31 09:18:52 UTC

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/portage-manual.html

Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-01 03:29:10 UTC

ah, that's an easy one. it's a masked package.  if you look in
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, you'll see that the reason it is masked is
because of licensing issues.  Likely it is just not clear what the license on it is.

so, if you know it, please let us know it.

Comment 4 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-03 05:55:57 UTC

Adam?

Comment 5 Adam Mercer 2002-09-06 10:37:42 UTC

I've done a search and all I can find is the following, from aminet

Short:    Unlzx - decompresses LZX archives on multiple platforms
Author:   emeusel@cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Erik Meusel) (v1.1, 03.04.01)
Uploader: emeusel@cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Erik Meusel)
Version:  1.1
Type:     misc/unix
Requires: ANSI C-Compiler
Replaces: misc/unix/unlzx.c.Z

and a website, which appears to be the website for version 1.0

http://www.polycode.dk/mainpages/products/products.html#unlzx

there was some info regarding the PPC compliled version and it mentioned that
the license was freeware

so i would hazard a guess that is freeware?

Comment 6 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-07 08:30:41 UTC

thanks adam