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On Sunday 27 January 2008 18:29:56 Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> Why not an universal wrapper script ? |
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> maybe something like: |
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> magic-uncompress [-t <format>] [-c] [-o <output>] <input> |
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> This script could try to find out the input format automatically |
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> (the optional -t parameter allows to explicitly specifiy the format) |
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> Once we have this script, ebuilds could be rewritten step by step |
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> and no one (else than magic-uncompress) has to care about the actual |
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> commands behind. |
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> Some could be done w/ tar and zip, etc. |
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You've just reinvented unpack(). It's been a part of portage for ages and is |
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used in just about every ebuild in the tree... |
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Bo Andresen |
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