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Bug 593702 - [RFE] unrar missing in all RHEL distros up and including RHEL6beta1
Summary: [RFE] unrar missing in all RHEL distros up and including RHEL6beta1
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: distribution
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: RHEL Program Management
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-19 14:28 UTC by Luc de Louw
Modified: 2021-10-20 13:33 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2010-05-19 18:29:43 UTC
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Description Luc de Louw 2010-05-19 14:28:00 UTC 
Description of problem:

Since SAP ships some software components packed with RAR we need to install unrar from third party repositories or from source.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum search unrar

  
Actual results:
No Matches found

Expected results:
Matched: unrar

Additional info:
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2010-05-19 18:29:43 UTC 
To the best of my knowledge, there is no unrar codebase under an acceptable license available.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Unrar
Comment 3 Luc de Louw 2010-05-19 18:58:51 UTC 
Dear Bill,

This explains why unrar is not in any RH sponsored project (EPEL) 

I had a look to the link you posted. The license is indeed not very comfortable. RH based distros such as RHEL and Fedora are AFAIK the only ditros which are not proving unrar. Even Debian which is know for its quite radical behavior when it comes to licensing questions has unrar available. See http://packages.debian.org/sid/unrar .

OpenSuse as well as SLES11 ships unrar. At the end of the day this means RH is the only Linux vendor that does NOT ship unrar. 

What is so evil with unrar?

The only alternative for us if you intervene @SAP (with is a partner of you) to get rid of this compression alg. 

Sorry, just closing this bug because of such an issue is not acceptable. I thing this needs further discussions.

Thanks,

Luc
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2010-05-19 19:30:52 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Sorry, just closing this bug because of such an issue is not acceptable. I
> thing this needs further discussions.

We are not indenting to ship software that has specific use restrictions on the code, for the same reason we don't include software that is 'non-commercial use only', or similar.
Comment 5 Strahil Nikolov 2021-10-20 13:33:33 UTC 
I just tested a SAP archive with unar (from EPEL) and it works.
Don't forget that:
- all pieces of the archive must be in the same dir
- all names must be unchanged
- specify only the first part of the archive like: 'unar archive_part1.exe'
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