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diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm index 9834fcbe63..bda43bfd18 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm @@ -1954,3 +1954,49 @@ reading from and writing to ZIP archives. ") ;; Project is distributed under LGPL, but "quazip/z*" "quazip/unzip.*" are ;; distributed under zlib terms. (license (list license:lgpl2.1+ license:zlib)))) + +(define-public zutils + (package + (name "zutils") + ;; Check and remove the lint-hidden-cve property when updating. + (version "1.8") + (source + (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "mirror://savannah/zutils/zutils-" version ".tar.lz")) + (sha256 + (base32 "0dx35mv78fgqgz6sszs05ng8ipz2xy09ry9vpmka2rmy08b7x907")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (arguments + `(#:configure-flags + (list "--sysconfdir=/etc") + #:phases + (modify-phases %standard-phases + (replace 'install + (lambda* (#:key make-flags outputs #:allow-other-keys) + (apply invoke "make" "install" + (string-append "sysconfdir=" (assoc-ref outputs "out") + "/etc") + make-flags)))))) + (native-inputs + ;; Needed to extract the source tarball and run the test suite. + `(("lzip" ,lzip))) + (properties `((lint-hidden-cve . ("CVE-2018-1000637")))) + (home-page "https://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html") + (synopsis "Utilities that transparently operate on compressed files") + (description + "Zutils is a collection of utilities able to process any combination of +compressed and uncompressed files transparently. If any given file, including +standard input, is compressed, its decompressed content is used instead. + +@command{zcat}, @command{zcmp}, @command{zdiff}, and @command{zgrep} are +improved replacements for the shell scripts provided by GNU gzip. +@command{ztest} tests the integrity of supported compressed files. +@command{zupdate} recompresses files with lzip, similar to gzip's +@command{znew}. + +Supported compression formats are bzip2, gzip, lzip, and xz. Zutils uses +external compressors: the compressor to be used for each format is configurable +at run time, and must be installed separately.") + (license (list license:bsd-2 ; arg_parser.{cc,h} + license:gpl2+)))) ; the rest |