With commit 74aacf44958e1343b910b3fbdcf753393857f070 creating uncompressed .tar packages fails. -> Compressing package... /usr/share/makepkg/util/compress.sh: line 70: COMPRESS.TAR[@]: invalid variable name bsdtar: Write error Empty the '$ext' variable for the '.tar' extension in get_compress_command() to fix this. We would fallback to cat for 'tar' anyways. Signed-off-by: Michael Straube <michael.straubej@gmail.com> --- v1 -> v2 Added a comment. scripts/libmakepkg/util/compress.sh.in | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/libmakepkg/util/compress.sh.in b/scripts/libmakepkg/util/compress.sh.in index d35a01fa..b88d0c2f 100644 --- a/scripts/libmakepkg/util/compress.sh.in +++ b/scripts/libmakepkg/util/compress.sh.in @@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ get_compression_command() { esac ext=${ext#*.tar.} + # empty the variable for tar so we fallback to cat, otherwise we would + # have '.tar' and get an error in the next if block + ext=${ext#*.tar} + if [[ -n $ext ]]; then extarray="COMPRESS${ext^^}[@]" resolvecmd=("${!extarray}") -- 2.28.0