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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:43:58 -0700 |
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Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Currently, if a package does an explicit 'unpack foo.bar', |
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> > where .bar is an unsupported archive format, unpack just does |
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> > nothing. This isn't a good default behaviour; if a package really |
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> > wants something to be 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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You'd have to do unpack --if-compressed ${A} to get that behaviour. |
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It's sometimes handy to have, and of course it's necessary for |
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default_src_unpack, but silently ignoring duff inputs isn't very |
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Unixy or very software engineeringy... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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