Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Cc: prefix@g.o, gentoo-alt@l.g.o, gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/2] bin/phase-helpers.shL Fix unpack() for deb2targz .xz types
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 18:05:14
Message-Id: 21636.38607.313282.924087@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/2] bin/phase-helpers.shL Fix unpack() for deb2targz .xz types by Zac Medico
1 >>>>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2014, Zac Medico wrote:
2
3 > Anyway, Brian's patch for xz support with debt2targz appears to be
4 > compatible with other package managers as well as AIX, so that seems
5 > like a good way to go.
6
7 I still think that ar should always be used on platforms where GNU
8 binutils is installed. Currently unpack uses deb2targz when it finds
9 the program, which is not a well defined behaviour.
10
11 Ulrich

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