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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> it seems like some GNU projects start to release their source tarballs |
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> in lzip compressed versions only [1][2]. |
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> This is a problem since portage's unpack function doesn't know anything |
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> about lzip. |
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> ... |
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> What do you think? |
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A short-term solution would be to add lzip support to unpacker.eclass |
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and utilize that instead of the built-in unpack function. |
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A long-term solution would be to modify PMS to support unpacking lzip archives. |
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Either way, you will still need to have app-arch/lzip in DEPEND, |
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similar to app-arch/unzip. |