Bug 11070

Summary:	New package request: unar
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	Atilla ÖNTAŞ <tarakbumba>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	anssi.hannula, cooker, mageia, pterjan, tarakbumba
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://code.google.com/p/theunarchiver/
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	unar	CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Walser 2013-08-23 21:04:24 CEST

Fedora 19 added a new free software packaged called unar (see 3.1.2.2):
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Desktop.html

It can be used to replace the non-free unrar package for extracting RAR files.

Here is a blog post about it:
http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/free-and-open-source-support-for-rar-archives-in-fedora/

It would be great to have this in Mageia, and integrated so that file-roller and ark can use it.

To build, it requires some gnustep stuff which we appear to also not have packaged.

Here is the website for unar:
http://code.google.com/p/theunarchiver/

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Damien Lallement 2013-10-11 19:18:01 CEST

[dams@hupstream ~]$ mgarepo maintdb get unrar
anssi
[dams@hupstream ~]$

Perhaps it will be good to have anssi POV as he is unrar non-free maintainer.

CC: (none) => anssi.hannula, mageia

Comment 2 Anssi Hannula 2013-10-11 19:34:28 CEST

Hmm, it is not a direct replacement as it has a different name, right?

If so, I don't have anything against including it.

Johnny A. Solbu 2014-01-21 14:35:02 CET

CC: (none) => cooker

Comment 3 Pascal Terjan 2014-02-24 15:17:35 CET

Yes not direct replacement, it also handles many different formats and tools need to decide explicitly to use it.
I think we should have it.

CC: (none) => pterjan

Comment 4 Johnny A. Solbu 2014-02-24 16:01:31 CET

A good argument for adding this is the fact that unrar is Proprietary, while unar is Free software.

Comment 5 Pascal Terjan 2014-02-24 16:06:18 CET

Another one is that at least file-roller can use it since GNOME 2.6 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646606).

But I don't think we need more arguments, no one is opposing it :)

Comment 6 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2014-03-26 10:25:08 CET

If

CC: (none) => tarakbumba

Comment 7 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2014-03-26 10:27:30 CET

I' ll try to import it from Fedora packages. Then, assigning this bug report to myself. Greetings.

Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2014-03-26 10:28:46 CET

Hardware: i586 => All
Assignee: bugsquad => tarakbumba

Comment 8 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2014-03-26 19:45:18 CET

I' ve imported unar package from Fedora with a little modifications and submitted to Cauldron. It can be directly used with file-roller or engrampa. Tested with engrampa and it nicely opens rar archives without unrar is installed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED