I am interested in using lrzip and I am surprised that I cannot seem to find it in any common fedora repos. There’s no mention of fedora for it in repology or rpmfind. Google’s AI is leading me in circles. Am I really forced to build from source?
I’d try installing SUSE’s RPM (info):
sudo dnf install 'https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory/standard/x86_64/lrzip-0.660-1.1.x86_64.rpm'
I was not familiar with the project at all, but… it looks like it was orphaned a long time ago.
I didn’t find a bug saying it, but it seems like it failed to build for a long time, (there are plenty of closed bugs in bugzilla)
I was able to install it from SUSE using your command, and it appeared to work perfectly, so I believe it definitely should be rehabilitated into fedora’s inventory.
It definitely shouldn’t.
It’s unmaintained and hasn’t seen any attention for over 8 years. I would not let this into a ANY repo unless it was thoroughly vetted and had a maintainer signed up to fix the inevitable issues it has.
When I look at GitHub - ckolivas/lrzip: Long Range Zip · GitHub I see several files updated four months ago. Why do you say it’s unmaintained?
Users can choose to use software, and older software still functional doesn’t necessarily need recent updates to prove it (only saw 4 open issues on GitHub)
I haven’t heard of lrzip, but even FreeBSD has it:
pkg search lrzip
lrzip-0.660 Long Range ZIP or Lzma RZIP
Of course - users are free to run any old code they find on the net that hasn’t been touched in years and when there’s some priv escalation within the parser or something equally as daft, they get to keep both pieces of their compromised machine.
Here’s a build using the updated specfile:
I cleared out bitrot parts and switched to Git builds.