Hi Frank, On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 06:44:02AM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > > [...] I think it would be better if you could simply leave off the > > conversion CMD and just provide an EXT (without =). This would then > > just pass the file with the given extension to libarchive directly > > (then you also don't need the zstdcat conversion). And letting > > libarchive handle it directly might be more efficient. > > How about making =CMD optional. If it's missing, debuginfod would > assume "cat". (I'd prefer not to have to change the code again for > some other distro that has a thin wrapper around a libarchive-readable > format, where something like rpm2cpio or dog would be needed.)
Yes, lets make =CMD optional. But why assume "cat"? Can't you then simply use fopen instaed of popen in the code to get the FILE* to pass to archive_read_open_FILE? Or even just open and archive_read_open_fd? Cheers, Mark
