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2014-09-14 10:59 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>: |
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> On 14/09/2014 09:47, Gevisz wrote: |
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>> On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:57:37 +0530 |
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>> Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> |
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>>> On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 10:24 +0300, Gevisz wrote: |
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>>>> I have just installed unix2dos utility |
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>>>> (never had a need to use it before) and |
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>>>> just after that tried to install dos2unix |
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>>>> but the installation of dos2unix failed |
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>>>> complaining on the fact that |
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>>>> |
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>>>> "app-text/unix2dos" is blocking app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5 |
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>>>> |
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>>>> I find it very strange as I think that if someone |
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>>>> needs unix2dos utility he usually also needs dos2unix |
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>>>> utility, especially taking into account that unix2dos |
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>>>> by default overwrites its input file. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> This is the output from the emerge command: |
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>>>> |
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>>>> # emerge --ask dos2unix |
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>>>> |
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>>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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>>>> [ebuild N ] app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5 USE="nls -debug" |
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>>>> [blocks B ] app-text/unix2dos ("app-text/unix2dos" is blocking |
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>>>> app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5) |
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>>>> [blocks B ] >=app-text/dos2unix-5 (">=app-text/dos2unix-5" is |
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>>>> blocking app-text/unix2dos-2.2-r1) |
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>>>> |
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>>>> * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be |
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>>>> * installed at the same time on the same system. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> (app-text/dos2unix-6.0.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) |
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>>>> pulled in by dos2unix |
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>>>> |
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>>>> (app-text/unix2dos-2.2-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by |
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>>>> app-text/unix2dos required by @selected |
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>>>> |
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>>>> |
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>>>> For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the |
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>>>> following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is |
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>>>> irrelevant): |
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>>>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Any thought? |
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>>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> % eix dos2unix |
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>>> 14-09-14 - 12:56:42 |
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>>> * app-text/dos2unix |
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>>> Available versions: 6.0.3 6.0.5 (~)6.0.6 {debug nls} |
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>>> Homepage: http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/dos2unix.html |
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>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dos2unix/ |
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>>> Description: Convert DOS or MAC text files to UNIX format |
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>>> or ***vice versa*** |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> dos2unix handles both, that's why. |
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>>> |
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>> Ok, thak you. I have only checked that unix2dos converts one way. |
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>> But, anyway, it is unexpected behavior. |
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> |
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> Not really. Look at both packages in eix, they have vastly different |
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> version numbers but they both have the same homepage: |
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> "In 2010 the two separate dos2unix and unix2dos packages have been |
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> bundled into a single dos2unix package (version 5.0). Support for |
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> Unicode UTF-16 was added in 2012 (version 6.0)." |
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> |
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> Visualize the name as having "<->" instead of "2" :-) |
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> From a first glance, I'd guess that unix2dos has been obsolete |
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> (superceded?) for 4 years and should be removed from the tree |
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Yes, I have already looked at that page and have the same impression as you. |
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And the same conviction that in this case unix2dos should be removed from |
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the portage tree, as well. :) |