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On 22:53 Mon 09 Mar , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:39:41 -0700 |
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> Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > * Calling unpack on an unrecognised extension should be fatal, |
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> > > unless --if-compressed is specified. The default src_unpack needs |
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> > > to use this. |
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> > |
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> > Why? |
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> |
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> Currently, if a package does an explicit 'unpack foo.bar', where .bar is |
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> an unsupported archive format, unpack just does nothing. This isn't a |
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> good default behaviour; if a package really wants something to be |
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> ignored silently, it should have to say so. |
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I like it when unpack ${A} works regardless of what's in SRC_URI, |
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especially if it's an uncompressed file rather than an unsupported |
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compression format. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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