[pacman-dev] FS #6246 - makepkg fails if the extensions is wrong on the archive

[Aaron Griffin]

On 1/21/07, James Rosten <seinfeld90 at gmail.com> wrote:
> * Johannes Weiner <hannes at saeurebad.de> [070121 13:38]:
> >
> > What about this:
> >
> > case $file_type in
> >       "application/x-tar")
> >               ft=".tar";;
> >       "application/x-tar*")
> >               case $file_type in
> >                       "*x-gzip")
> >                               ft=".tgz";;
> >                       "*x-bzip2")
> >                               ft=".tbz2";;
> >               ecac;;
> >       "application/x-zip*")
> >               ft=".zip";;
> >       [...]
> > esac
> >
> > This would save a lot of external calls to grep ;)
>
> Good idea.  I've got the new patch below as usual.

One curiosity here:
More modern version of tar is able to pick up the proper decompression
program with a simple -xf (try -xf on a bz2 or gz file).  Wouldn't it
be best to just match application/x-tar* to tar -xf?