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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] upstreams that release lzip compressed tarballs (tar.lz) only
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:19:48
Message-Id: CAJ0EP40n_zx3xf4OZSkPL7swLCurobLCsXtfH1t+cH2hFPL0DA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] upstreams that release lzip compressed tarballs (tar.lz) only by Lars Wendler
1 On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o> wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > it seems like some GNU projects start to release their source tarballs
5 > in lzip compressed versions only [1][2].
6 > This is a problem since portage's unpack function doesn't know anything
7 > about lzip.
8 >
9 > ...
10 >
11 > What do you think?
12 >
13
14 A short-term solution would be to add lzip support to unpacker.eclass
15 and utilize that instead of the built-in unpack function.
16
17 A long-term solution would be to modify PMS to support unpacking lzip archives.
18
19 Either way, you will still need to have app-arch/lzip in DEPEND,
20 similar to app-arch/unzip.

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