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On 12/07/2014 10:05 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2014, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> Anyway, Brian's patch for xz support with debt2targz appears to be |
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>> compatible with other package managers as well as AIX, so that seems |
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>> like a good way to go. |
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> I still think that ar should always be used on platforms where GNU |
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> binutils is installed. Currently unpack uses deb2targz when it finds |
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> the program, which is not a well defined behaviour. |
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Okay, I guess we can default to ar if [[ $(ar --version 2>&1) == "GNU |
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ar"* ]] and otherwise fall back to deb2targz. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |