I would agree. On Saturday, August 21, 2010, Allan McRae wrote:

Forwarding to the pacman-dev list.

I'd prefer some copying of the code we use in makepkg to decide how to compress a package based on PKGEXT.

Alla

-------- Original Message -------- Subject:        [Arch Linux] patch for bacman from pacman-contrib package Date:   Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:58:17 +1000 From:   Nelson Chan To:     allan@archlinux.org

originally, bacman doesn't catch up with current  .pkg.tar.xz package format it produces a package named according /etc/makepkg.conf (e.g. *.pkg.tar.xz) but it fact it created a .gz format instead of xz

Package : pacman-contrib (version 3.4.0-1) Component: /usr/bin/bacman    (version 0.2.1)

--- Nelson Chan

here is the patch:

--- bacman.orig    2010-08-21 00:15:43.480000752 +1000 +++ bacman    2010-08-21 00:22:20.440001311 +1000 @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@

 pkg_arch=${CARCH:-'unknown'}  pkg_dest="${PKGDEST:-$PWD}" -pkg_ext=${PKGEXT:-'.pkg.tar.gz'} +pkg_ext=${PKGEXT}  pkg_pkger=${PACKAGER:-'Unknown Packager'}

 pkg_name="$1" @@ -266,7 +266,15 @@  echo "Generating the package..."

 ret=0 -bsdtar -czf "$pkg_dest/$pkg_namver-$pkg_arch$pkg_ext" $(ls -A) || ret=$? +if [[ $pkg_ext == ".pkg.tar.xz" ]]; then +    tar -cJf "$pkg_dest/$pkg_namver-$pkg_arch.pkg.tar.xz" $(ls -A) || ret=$? +elif [[ $pkg_ext == ".pkg.tar.bz2" ]]; then +    bsdtar -cyf "$pkg_dest/$pkg_namver-$pkg_arch.pkg.tar.bz2" $(ls -A) || ret=$? +else +    bsdtar -czf "$pkg_dest/$pkg_namver-$pkg_arch.pkg.tar.gz" $(ls -A) || ret=$? +fi + +  if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then      echo "ERROR: unable to write package to $pkg_dest"      echo "       Maybe the disk is full or you do not have write access"