2014-02-20 8:19 GMT-07:00 Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org>: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Lars Wendler <polynomia...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> it seems like some GNU projects start to release their source tarballs >> in lzip compressed versions only [1][2]. >> This is a problem since portage's unpack function doesn't know anything >> about lzip. >> >> ... >> >> What do you think? >> > > A short-term solution would be to add lzip support to unpacker.eclass > and utilize that instead of the built-in unpack function. I had the same idea: <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501912>
> > A long-term solution would be to modify PMS to support unpacking lzip > archives. I don't see, why we should do that. unpacker.eclass is a good place to support exotic archive formats. > > Either way, you will still need to have app-arch/lzip in DEPEND, > similar to app-arch/unzip. Or use $(unpacker_src_uri_depends). > -- Christoph Junghans http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/
