Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:16:09 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new USES=tar ? Message-ID: <CAF6rxgk5etUEGDwtDkKDJcP4G3a_=UG9QQ7WgMviQRKwGhr%2BDQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140311110549.GK6900@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20140311110549.GK6900@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On 11 March 2014 07:05, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > To be able to migrate most of the zip files to use bsdtar when they case we have > added USES=zip[:infozip] for consistency I do plan to make the same kind of USES > for every kind of archivers. I am puzzled on how to handle all the tar > extensions what would your propose? > > One USES per extension? (USES=xz, USES=bzip2 etc?) > > or One USES=tar with arguments for extensions? Why does tar need an extension? why can't tar use the DISTFILE itself? tar supports auto-detection of the format which it is unzipping. -- Eitan Adler
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