From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] No 'zip' utility?
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:53:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151123195320.GW2177@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n2vp1a$rde$1@ger.gmane.org>
Hi Grant,
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 07:22:18PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I just stumbled across the fact that there doesn't seem to be a 'zip'
> utility available either as a busybox applet or as a stand-alone
> utility with a buildroot package. I've got a web app running on an
> ARM9 boad that allows users to PUT trees of files to my board in
> either .zip or .tar.gz archives. When it came time to add a feature
> that required users to GET trees of files from my board, I agreed to
> also support .zip format archives (dimly assuming that since there was
> a zip, there would be an unzip).
>
> But, though busybox has an 'unzip', it doesn't have a 'zip'. And
> there doesn't appear to be a stand-alone 'zip' package in buildroot.
>
> Is it just that I'm the first one dumb enough to sign up for creating
> .zip archives on an embedded linux system? Or is there some
> licensing/patent reason why creation of the .zip archives is
> unsupported?
Try the infozip package. Look under "Compressors and decompressors".
baruch
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2015-11-23 19:22 [Buildroot] No 'zip' utility? Grant Edwards
2015-11-23 19:53 ` Baruch Siach [this message]
2015-11-23 20:06 ` Grant Edwards
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