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diff --git a/system/par2cmdline/README b/system/par2cmdline/README deleted file mode 100644 index 6dc06df56c..0000000000 --- a/system/par2cmdline/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -par2cmdline (Commandline implementation of PARv2.0 specification) - -par2cmdline is a GPL-licensed commandline tool for creating and using PAR2 -parity sets to detect damage in files and repair them if necessary. The -program uses Reed Solomon Coding to perform its error correction. A useful -program for checking and ensuring the integrity of binaries retrieved from -usenet for instance. - -This program, or it's argued gcc, has compile issues which result in a -"Warning: ignoring..." messages during the build process. This problem is -known and was made a gcc bug, which was shortly fixed. From what I know, -this issue does not affect the actual compilation of the program. - -For information on the issue see these messages: - http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2004-04/msg02848.html - http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2004-04/msg02856.html - http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356548 - -There is also current work being done on a par2 library extracted from -par2cmdline called libpar2 and is available at pararchive.sourceforge.net. -However, since it still contains the original par2cmdline, it has the same -compilation issue. - -On a side note, par2cmdline in combination with unrar (available here on -SlackBuilds.org) can be used by the python program hellanzb to make getting, -verifying and unraring files with a nzb file almost totally hands-free. -For more information see: http://www.hellanzb.com/trac/. - -This includes a patch to make par2cmdline work with GCC 4.x.x |