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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Cc: prefix@g.o, gentoo-alt@l.g.o, gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-alt] Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/2] bin/phase-helpers.shL Fix unpack() for deb2targz .xz types
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 18:23:45
Message-Id: 54849B2B.3010108@gentoo.org
1 On 12/07/2014 10:05 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2014, Zac Medico wrote:
3 >
4 >> Anyway, Brian's patch for xz support with debt2targz appears to be
5 >> compatible with other package managers as well as AIX, so that seems
6 >> like a good way to go.
7 >
8 > I still think that ar should always be used on platforms where GNU
9 > binutils is installed. Currently unpack uses deb2targz when it finds
10 > the program, which is not a well defined behaviour.
11
12 Okay, I guess we can default to ar if [[ $(ar --version 2>&1) == "GNU
13 ar"* ]] and otherwise fall back to deb2targz.
14 --
15 Thanks,
16 Zac