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

[Jan de Groot]

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 06:15 +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> It might sound silly but the probably easiest solution might be to
> modify 
> namcap to support uncompressed tar archives. Then we can add a simple
> Bash 
> wrapper script which uncompresses the package and calls namcap with
> the pure 
> tar.

+1 for now. Namcap uses the Tarfile module, which supports tarfiles,
either uncompressed or compressed by gzip or bzip2.

It would be nice if namcap would accept packages from stdin, as you can
just xzcat the package in that case.