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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: prefix@g.o, gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/2] bin/phase-helpers.shL Fix unpack() for deb2targz .xz types
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 19:46:17
Message-Id: 5484AE80.5080008@gentoo.org
1 On 12/07/2014 11:41 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2014, Zac Medico wrote:
3 >
4 >> On 12/07/2014 11:23 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 >>> FYI:
6 >>>
7 >>> % portageq envvar CHOST
8 >>> x86_64-apple-darwin13
9 >>> % ar --version
10 >>> ar: illegal option -- -
11 >>> usage: ar -d [-TLsv] archive file ...
12 >>> [...]
13 >
14 >> It's hard to whitelist it if doesn't support --version, so it seems
15 >> reasonable to require deb2targz whenever ar is not GNU ar.
16 >
17 > unpack will still use ar if deb2targz is not installed. So on Darwin,
18 > behaviour should be the same as before.
19 >
20 > Ulrich
21 >
22
23 Ah, that's a nice feature. That way, we can just leave it to platforms
24 like AIX to pull in deb2targz when necessary.
25 --
26 Thanks,
27 Zac