BSD Ports

archivers/gzip 1.14nb1 NetBSD

Compress or expand files

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
Last update
Commit
171d7b4ad9
License
gnu-gpl-v3
Categories
archivers
Package size
87.6 KiB, 225.4 KiB installed

Description

GZIP (GNU zip) is a popular data compression program written by Jean-Loup Gailly <[email protected]> for the GNU project.

This program was developed as a replacement for compress because of the UNISYS and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm used by compress. These patents made it impossible for us to use compress, and we needed a replacement. The superior compression ratio of GZIP is just a bonus.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
NetBSDarchivers/gzip1.14nb1
FreeBSDarchivers/gzip1.14
DragonFlyarchivers/gzip1.13_1
MidnightBSDarchivers/gzip1.14_1
HardenedBSDarchivers/gzip1.14
GhostBSDarchivers/gzip1.14

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install gzip

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/archivers/gzip && make install clean

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

RepositoryVersion
NetBSD 10.1 x86_641.14nb1
NetBSD 10.1 aarch641.12
SmartOS / illumos x86_641.15
macOS 15 arm641.15

Dependencies

Commit history 3

DateCommitCreditsLog message
171d7b4ad9 drixter gzip: Update to 1.15
* Noteworthy changes in release 1.15 (2026-09-20) [stable] ** Bug fixes gzip no longer can mistakenly remove the wrong file if some other process simultaneously renames a gzip destination's ancestor. [bug present since the beginning] gzip -d no longer rejects PKZIP signatures, local header, and data descriptors. These can appear in well-formed streamed zip files. [bug present since the beginning] gzip diagnostics now quote file names containing unusual characters. [bug present since the beginning] A use of uninitialized memory on some malformed inputs has been fixed. [bug present since the beginning] A buffer overflow has been fixed when decompressing an .lzh file after decompressing a .Z file. [bug present since the beginning] …
82dcdbfd26 drixter gzip: Add conflicts with zutils
19a1a973d1 wiz gzip: update to 1.14nb1.
Based on wip/gzip by drixter@ and myself. Add patch for CVE-2026-41992, thus bump to nb1 immediately. * Noteworthy changes in release 1.14 (2025-04-09) [stable] ** Bug fixes 'gzip -d' no longer omits the last partial output buffer when the input ends unexpectedly on an IBM Z platform. [bug introduced in gzip-1.11] 'gzip -l' no longer misreports lengths of multimember inputs. [bug introduced in gzip-1.12] 'gzip -S' now rejects suffixes containing '/'. [bug present since the beginning] ** Changes in behavior The GZIP environment variable is now silently ignored except for the options -1 (--fast) through -9 (--best), --rsyncable, and --synchronous. This brings gzip into line with more-cautious compressors like zstd …