From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 6 19:14:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C93106564A for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:14:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52D648FC14 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so2431409gxk.13 for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:14:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=rJcatCB6KENbbwhEZm6PaS75R++2gNIxaoXkjq7yoDA=; b=cXjWHgw5jl1/REXLfJ9DC/KhY6Tvy8DwxjVPEKty2acTZmC7LmmX2IyBpHsRzJ4Rak 7b6T6V4/kMkMXjYGV1B7KXBlIXQc+mLu+V4cEuZVTS5nJDiG0vWdhs9BzP5W9rTxv2/n 3uiXA9LDdOd1sY1DaNQ+TGSfjqbDkSeBxEiyM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=mu1waKcnvm3+Sy25BEsv2WkHZpJIkvnrYId7QFnzwSc//3JvBFUYePXqdfu+C5lQYt 6CC7LXjdNYoPuQ62UKMmiyVYfJ+gI9RoaC/LQ5fmSrZJuYWmqf8A0UbjbRfb/5FVCUUq JrkzonvPvKFEaO3kXhd9a5432pjBvIxl/XHbA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.252.5 with SMTP id z5mr4548342ybh.164.1307386236505; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.186.6 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:50:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:50:36 -0700 Message-ID: From: Xin LI To: Eir Nym Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD Mail Lists Subject: Re: archivers/unzip vs tar -xf X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:14:05 -0000 On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Eir Nym wrote: > Since FreeBSD 5.4.0-Release libarchive(3) support to unpack zip files. > Why not to use it to unpack distributives to workdir? > > I've downloaded all distros and tried to unpack them all with tar(1) > with no problems. I use FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT r222717. I think the reason is that at the beginning tar(1) does not work for a little fraction of distfiles, but yes, I think it's reasonable to take a step forward and add a new option to force using the info-zip implementation. Cheers, -- Xin LI http://www.delphij.net