extract both bz2 and gz files from distfiles
Doug Barton
dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 8 17:40:30 UTC 2006
Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org> (Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:20:55 +0200):
>
>> So you prefer imposing yet another dependency on the user is less evil
>> than adding few lines of extra code in port Makefile?
>>
>> Interesting PoV.
>
> We're talking about 4.x. It's on the way out. So it's about increased
> complexity (own do-extract target) on the well supported systems, or
> about another dependency on the old and "we support it if it isn't a
> hassle" versions. For the linux ports Boris is needing this part, I
> vote for another dependency (like we have already with USE_GCC in other
> ports).
FWIW, I agree with Brooks and Pav here, and that's speaking as someone who
still actively maintains his ports on RELENG_4 (although I'm looking forward
to not having to do so).
Doug
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