Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Christoph Junghans <ottxor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] upstreams that release lzip compressed tarballs (tar.lz) only
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:22:25
Message-Id: CANgp9kx5xb80zq8kq+KLko0B4DdOaxCPMNnphRRnoHO12=Xi1Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] upstreams that release lzip compressed tarballs (tar.lz) only by Mike Gilbert
1 2014-02-20 8:19 GMT-07:00 Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>:
2 > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o> wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> it seems like some GNU projects start to release their source tarballs
6 >> in lzip compressed versions only [1][2].
7 >> This is a problem since portage's unpack function doesn't know anything
8 >> about lzip.
9 >>
10 >> ...
11 >>
12 >> What do you think?
13 >>
14 >
15 > A short-term solution would be to add lzip support to unpacker.eclass
16 > and utilize that instead of the built-in unpack function.
17 I had the same idea:
18 <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501912>
19
20 >
21 > A long-term solution would be to modify PMS to support unpacking lzip archives.
22 I don't see, why we should do that. unpacker.eclass is a good place to
23 support exotic archive formats.
24
25 >
26 > Either way, you will still need to have app-arch/lzip in DEPEND,
27 > similar to app-arch/unzip.
28 Or use $(unpacker_src_uri_depends).
29
30 >
31
32
33
34 --
35 Christoph Junghans
36 http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/