Bug 247527

Summary:	lftp requires perl
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ed Swierk <eswierk>
Component:	lftp	Assignee:	Martin Nagy <mnagy>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	7	CC:	hripps, mbarabas, triage
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Description Ed Swierk 2007-07-09 18:58:24 UTC

lftp itself works just fine without Perl, but the lftp rpm requires Perl to be
installed.  Hauling in the 30 MB Perl beast seems overkill for what amounts to 
a rather peripheral feature of lftp (verifying file checksums), especially on an
embedded system that has no other dependencies on Perl.

A couple of possibilities for fixing this:

- Move the optional lftp bits into a subpackage, lftp-utils or somesuch, and
have that require Perl.

- Implement a standalone crc32sum utility in C using zlib, reimplement
verify-file in Bourne shell and have it use crc32sum and md5sum.

I'm happy to help implement the fix either way.

Comment 1 Martin Nagy 2008-03-05 13:04:27 UTC

Please send this to the upstream. See http://lftp.yar.ru/list.html for mailing
list addresses. Thanks.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 13:28:47 UTC

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 01:50:18 UTC

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