Bug 800868

Summary:	add package for "unp" script (like Ubuntu has)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	mnemo
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version:	16	CC:	dennis, jpokorny, rvokal
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Description mnemo 2012-03-07 12:24:32 UTC

In Ubuntu you can do "sudo apt-get install unp" to get a very nice tool that can unpack any type of archive. This means that you can type:

unp filename.ext

without having to worry about the specific compression format use (i.e. ext == ".tgz" or ".bz2" etc etc).

unp file1.tgz
unp file2.bz2
unp file3.tar.gz

...all of these work well. Please add an "unp" package to fedora as well.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2012-03-07 16:54:24 UTC

We don't add new software without willing maintainers - we certainly appreciate new maintainers that want to help, though.

If you're interested in packaging this software for Fedora, please see the instructions at:
   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join#OS_Developer

I've also added this request to the wishlist at:
   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist

Closing as DEFERRED until someone picks up the request.

Comment 2 Jan Pokorný [poki] 2013-11-11 21:35:35 UTC

Most up2date references I could find:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/unp/unp_2.0~pre7+nmu1.tar.bz2
http://sources.debian.net/src/unp/2.0%7Epre7%2Bnmu1/unp

Comment 3 Jan Pokorný [poki] 2013-11-21 12:58:21 UTC

@mnemo:
note that there is a handful of utilities with the same purpose, see, e.g.,
atool (and its aunpack command), which is packaged in Fedora