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

[Aaron Griffin]

On 1/22/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/21/07, James Rosten <seinfeld90 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?

I did make a commit at this point.  I'm not sure why it didn't make it
to the ML.

Anyway, check the changes in CVS - they apparently work fine for me,
but I haven't tested all cases.

Please patch against those changes there if there are any additions.