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ncompress-4.2.4-44.fc5 RPM for x86_64

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Name: ncompress Distribution: Red Hat (FC-5)
Version: 4.2.4 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release: 44.fc5 Build date: Mon Aug 21 07:20:47 2006
Group: Applications/File Build host: hs20-bc1-7.build.redhat.com
Size: 31266 Source RPM: ncompress-4.2.4-44.fc5.src.rpm
Packager: Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary: Fast compression and decompression utilities.
 
The ncompress package contains the compress and uncompress file
compression and decompression utilities, which are compatible with the
original UNIX compress utility (.Z file extensions).  These utilities
can't handle gzipped (.gz file extensions) files, but gzip can handle
compressed files.

Install ncompress if you need compression/decompression utilities
which are compatible with the original UNIX compress utility.

Provides

Copyright

distributable

Signatures

internal MD5: f5c7cd25838e7531ca5887f9198a9c1a

GPG

Changelog

* Mon Aug 21 2006 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> 4.2.4-44
  - fix bss buffer underflow CVE-2006-1168 (#201919)
* Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 4.2.4-43.2.1
  - bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)
* Tue Feb 07 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 4.2.4-43.2
  - rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes
* Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
  - rebuilt
* Thu Sep 22 2005 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> 4.2.4-43
  - compress zero-sized files when -f is used(#167615)
* Fri Mar 18 2005 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com>
  - rebuilt
* Tue Feb 08 2005 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com>
  - rebuilt
* Tue Oct 05 2004 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> 4.2.4-40
  - permit files > 2GB to be compressed (#126775).
* Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
  - rebuilt
* Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
  - rebuilt
* Wed Jun 04 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
  - rebuilt
* Wed Jan 22 2003 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
  - rebuilt
* Thu Dec 12 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com> 4.2.4-32
  - rebuild on all arches
* Fri Jun 21 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
  - automated rebuild
* Wed Jun 19 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 4.2.4-30
  - Don't strip when installing
* Thu May 23 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
  - automated rebuild
* Wed Feb 27 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 4.2.4-28
  - Rebuild
* Wed Jan 09 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
  - automated rebuild
* Mon Nov 26 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 4.2.4-26
  - Rebuild, to fix problem with broken man page (#56654)
* Wed Nov 21 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 4.2.4-25
  - Exit, don't segfault, when given too long filenames
* Sat Jun 09 2001 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>
  - s390x change
* Tue May 08 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>
  - Make it support large files (structs, stats, opens and of course:
    _don't use signed longs for file size before and after compression_.)
    This should fix #39470
* Thu Apr 26 2001 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>
  - add s390x, patch from Oliver Paukstadt <oliver.paukstadt@millenux.com>
* Mon Nov 13 2000 Oliver Paukstadt <oliver.paukstadt@millenux.com>
  - add s390 to the bigendian arch list
* Thu Aug 17 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>
  - change category to Applications/File, to match
    gzip and bzip2 
  - rename the spec file to ncompress.spec
  - add ppc to the bigendian arch list
* Fri Jul 21 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>
  - rebuild
* Wed Jul 12 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com>
  - automatic rebuild
* Tue Jun 13 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>
  - update URL
  - use %{_mandir}
* Fri May 05 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - fix %build
  LANG=C
  export LANG
  unset DISPLAY
   for ia64
* Mon Feb 07 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
  - handle compressed manpages
* Sun Mar 21 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> 
  - auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 14)
* Tue Jan 12 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
  - build on armv4l too
  - build for 6.0
* Thu Aug 13 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
  - build root
* Mon Apr 27 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>
  - translations modified for de, fr, tr
* Tue Oct 21 1997 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
  - fixed the spec file
* Mon Jun 02 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
  - built against glibc

Files

/usr/bin/compress
/usr/bin/uncompress
/usr/share/doc/ncompress-4.2.4
/usr/share/doc/ncompress-4.2.4/LZW.INFO
/usr/share/doc/ncompress-4.2.4/README
/usr/share/man/man1/compress.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/uncompress.1.gz

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