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

[Xavier]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Teran McKinney <sega01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't this break package extensions that are not *.tar.{gz,bz2}? I
> personally do not like this, as my Arch fork uses .ipkg (I find
> pkg.tar.$COMPRESSION very ugly, IMHO). Perhaps tar could simply tar
> the archive and a setting in makepkg.conf would allow for any method
> of compression? Example:
>
> makepkg.conf:
> COMPRESS='gzip -9'
>
> Makepkg:
> bsdtar -cf "$pkg_file" $comp_files *
> $COMPRESS "$pkg_file"
>
> Of course, you would need to deal with renaming it from
> ${EXTENSION}.gz back to $EXTENSION. Some error checking would be nice
> too.
>

And how will you know if a suffix was added, and which one? This looks ugly.

> Regarding repo-add, it could simply `tar -xf` and it would be
> extracted if `tar` understands that type of compression. It could also
> check with `file`, perhaps.
>

The problem is compressing, not decompressing.
file can not work for repo-add because when you create a repo the
first time, it does not exist yet.

> PS: Why is bsdtar used instead of GNU tar?
>

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7485