ANNOUNCE: beta release 4.41.2

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>>
>>> Julian Field wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have just released a new beta 4.41.2.
>>>>
>>>> Here is the Change Log:
>>>> * New Features and Improvements *
>>>> - Better handling of subdirectories in RAR archives.
>>>>
>>>> * Fixes *
>>>> - RAR archive handling: creation of directory only archive entries,
>>>> both
>>>>  windows and *nix created archives (caused problems for SAVI).
>>>> - RAR archive handling: possible false Encrypted file trigger on file
>>>> names
>>>>  containing the word "Encrypted".
>>>> - RAR archive handling: full path names used when extracting archived
>>>> files,
>>>>  extracted to safe file name without out path.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I notice a lot of new work with RAR archives.  I tried to find out how
>>> to get the external unrar to work on my RHEL 3/4 servers but I couldn't.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have a HOWTO on the subject?  I really would like to scan
>>> inside RAR files instead of blocking them...
>>
>>
>>
>> You basically just have to install a copy of unrar.
>> I just did a Google for unrar and found a Linux version at
>> http://linux.tucows.com/preview/8753.html
>> or even better there are some good RPM's of it at
>> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar/
>
>
> Julian,
>
> Tucow's version is v2.71 (dated Sep 2002) :-(
>
> dag's page looks promising but no link seems to work.  Do I have to
> setup a yum config to retrieve the files?
>

No need to have a yum config for only this package. The link works here.

i386:

RHEL3:
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar/unrar-3.5.1-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

RHEL4: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar/unrar-3.5.1-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm

> Denis
>

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