[arch-dev-public] [PATCH 2/2] Accept any *.pkg.tar.* package file name

[Pierre Schmitz]

Am Montag, 22. Februar 2010 05:24:50 schrieb Dan McGee:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Another thing: it was mentionned on the IRC channel that namcap
> > doesn't work with the new xz packages. It would be nice to have xz
> > support in namcap before we start pushing these changes out.
> 
> Yeah, this is IMHO a blocker to going gung-ho on this. It is not going
> to be super-easy either as we use python's built-in archive support
> that doesn't know about XZ as far as I know...

Why not? Just call bsdtar to extract the tar somewhere. This way you don#t 
have to worry how the package is compressed.

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre