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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: base-system@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] unpacker.eclass: enable EAPI 8
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:43:25
Message-Id: CAJ0EP43qGNW-cL91PQHsCfRdiuJgpa4MbRsJcThuNcXhC6zhrg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] unpacker.eclass: enable EAPI 8 by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 7:40 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > >>>>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, Stephan Hartmann wrote:
4 >
5 > > --- a/eclass/unpacker.eclass
6 > > +++ b/eclass/unpacker.eclass
7 > > @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
8 > > # @ECLASS: unpacker.eclass
9 > > # @MAINTAINER:
10 > > # base-system@g.o
11 > > -# @SUPPORTED_EAPIS: 5 6 7
12 > > +# @SUPPORTED_EAPIS: 5 6 7 8
13 > > # @BLURB: helpers for extraneous file formats and consistent behavior across EAPIs
14 > > # @DESCRIPTION:
15 > > # Some extraneous file formats are not part of PMS, or are only in certain
16 > > @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
17 > > # - support partial unpacks?
18 > >
19 > > case ${EAPI:-0} in
20 > > - [567]) ;;
21 > > + [5678]) ;;
22 > > *) die "${ECLASS}: EAPI ${EAPI:-0} not supported" ;;
23 > > esac
24 > >
25 >
26 > I think for EAPI 8 you'll need additional cases in _unpacker() for
27 > 7z, .rar, and .lha/.lzh, because package manager support for these
28 > extensions has been dropped:
29 > https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/8/pms.html#x1-135002r24
30
31 That would be a nice enhancement for the eclass, but I don't think it
32 needs to be implemented before EAPI 8 is allowed. It could wait until
33 some EAPI 8 ebuild actually needs to unpack one of these obscure
34 formats.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] unpacker.eclass: enable EAPI 8 Stephan Hartmann <sultan@g.o>