On 07/30/2011 01:42 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We've found that portage's unpack behavior is inconsistent for non-tar
> files compressed with gz|Z|z|bz2|bz|lzma|xz extensions [1]. Currently,
> it emulates tools like gunzip and bunzip2, unpacking them to the
> directory of the source file.
>
> For consistency, we could make it unpack them to cwd instead. PMS
> already specifies that the files should unpack to cwd, so this change
> will bring portage and PMS into agreement. Hopefully it won't break too
> many ebuilds, and we can always add compatibility code to ebuilds, like
> this:
>
> [[ ! -f ${x} ]] && { mv ${x}.gz ./ || die "mv failed"; }
>
> Is anyone opposed to making this change?
>
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376741
The PMS compliant unpack behavior is implemented in
sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.10.
It's unlikely to cause any problems, if any, since the most common
practice is to unpack source files that are already in the cwd. There
were only 2 packages in all of gentoo-x86 that needed to be fixed
because they unpacked files that weren't in the cwd:
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/www-plugins/google-talkplugin/google-talkplugin-2.1.7.0.ebuild?view=log#rev1.3
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/games-arcade/tuxpuck/tuxpuck-0.8.2-r1.ebuild?view=log#rev1.7
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Thanks,
Zac
