Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:44:22 +0200 From: Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua> To: "Mikhail T." <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Should USE_UNZIP be deprecated? Message-ID: <20121222084422.GA48817@ravenloft.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <50D52582.9070307@aldan.algebra.com> References: <50D52582.9070307@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:14:10PM -0500, Mikhail T. wrote: > tar(1) has been able to extract .zip files for quite a while now. Is it > time to deprecated USE_UNZIP knob? External dependency to archivers/unzip will soon be eliminated (see ports/172392). > The ports, that use it without also altering > EXTRACT_{BEFORE|AFTER}_ARGS, can, probably, be in the first wave -- > simply removing the knob from them should do the trick... unzip in the base for a long time and starting with OSVERSION 1000017 libarchive have all necessary features to properly handle archive permission. > For the rest, portlint can be taught to warn about it... > > Or do we still support OS-releases, where tar was not so advanced? Thanks, -- Alex
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