Bug 23637

Summary:	RAR - the most powerful and well known achiever
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Roman Fomin <sodix89>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lovaren, marja11, sebsweb
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://www.rarlab.com/
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	https://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-x64-5.6.1.tar.gz https://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-5.6.1.tar.gz	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Roman Fomin 2018-10-04 18:22:37 CEST

Description of problem:
Most of TOP10 distributions have a package for RAR in their repos, as for example Fedora, but Mageia haven't it.

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Comment 1 Sébastien Morin 2018-10-04 20:15:33 CEST

unrar is available in the nonfree-release and nonfree-updates repositories

unrar

Summary: Decompressor for .rar format archives

Description:
The unrar program is used to uncompress .rar format archives, which were
somewhat popular on DOS based machines.

CC: (none) => sebsweb

Comment 2 Roman Fomin 2018-10-04 20:56:03 CEST

I would create RAR archieves, not just unpack it.

Comment 3 Sébastien Morin 2018-10-04 21:08:43 CEST

(In reply to Roman Fomin from comment #2)
> I would create RAR archieves, not just unpack it.

Why would you want to create a proprietary RAR file when there are so many free open source compression formats (7zip, bz2, xz, etc.) which are faster and offer better compression?

Comment 4 Roman Fomin 2018-10-04 21:10:02 CEST

It's a common standard in Eastern Europe. All archives goes in .RAR

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2018-10-06 09:47:18 CEST

(In reply to Roman Fomin from comment #4)
> It's a common standard in Eastern Europe. All archives goes in .RAR

Ok, so assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might, if there are no license or other legal issues, want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

As said before (IIRC), you might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 6 Kristoffer Grundström 2018-10-06 11:34:24 CEST

This program either has a Free och Trial license depending on where it is used and the version for Linux is Trial only.

CC: (none) => hamnisdude