base system already has app-arch/gzip installed scanner1 ~ # cat > test abcd 123 abcd scanner1 ~ # /bin/zgrep -h 123 /root/test abcd 123 abcd emerge gzip-x86 ... scanner1 ~ # /bin/zgrep -h 123 /root/test Binary file (standard input) matches As you can see above, the zgrep that comes with gzip-x86 does not find the string in the file but returns "Binary file (standard input) matches" which is not expected. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gzip-x86 2. gzip-x86 does not perform identically to gzip Actual Results: Problem found when 2 similar machine gave different results. One machine was using gzip-x86. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 17 2005, 15:29:31)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://portage.mirror.com/tsp-cache/gentoo.oregonstate.edu" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://portage.mirror.com/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 alsa berkdb crypt eds emboss gd gstreamer guile innodb jpeg libg++ libwww lm_sensors milter mp3 mysql ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg perl png python readline rrdtool snmp spell sse sse2 ssl truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
File a bug upstream, Gentoo does not apply any patches to gzip-x86 so it's not a Gentoo problem.
I already filed a bug with the upstream maintainer, however the gzip-x86 hasn't been updated since 2002. Perhaps this package should be removed from portage if it isn't being maintained upstream?
(In reply to comment #2) > Perhaps this package should be removed from portage if it isn't being maintained > upstream? Good idea...
Segmentation Faults all over for me. Any news from upstream?
The case for removal is probably a very good one, as this package is also missing security fixes/updates. 0.91 is just a "hacked" gzip-1.3.3 source tree and as such is vunerable to at least glsa-200406-18 glsa-200505-05, and any other fixes which have happened in the actual gzip tree since 1.3.3 was released.
I've package.mask'd this package because of the exploits and not being maintained upstream. If no one wants to maintain the package and fixes it up within the next 30 days, its getting the boot. I'm keeping this bug around as a reminder to myself and will close it after I remove it from the tree.
Removed from the tree.
