[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: allow compression type to be autodetected

[Xavier]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Inspired by commit 7e8f1469c4168875b54956d63884b8583ce99e38, use our given
> PKGEXT or SRCEXT to determine what method of compression to use on the
> package we create. If the extension is invalid, this should fall back to
> creating a non-compressed tar file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>

Looks nice, and repo-add and pacman could already handle tar.gz and
tar.bz2 transparently.