Re: Suggestion to and how to alow different compression for .debs
Chris Pimlott <pimlottc@null.net> writes:
> On 21 Oct 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > Of cause policy should encourage to use bzip2 (or gzip if smaller) and
> > base packages must use tar.gz (or tar.bz2 if bzip2 is in base) so
> > that one can update debian. Any package using a non default
> > compression must predepend on that compressor, but that should be
> > clear for the packaging scripts and maintainer.
>
> If there has to be a line added to control, why not instead make a
> new line such as "Archive: tar.bz2" (with Archive: tar.gz assumed if
> not specified) and not worry about a custom how_to_unpack script?
> Granted, this method would only support predefined types but would be
> simpler, and there aren't _that_ many formats people are dying to use -
> tar.gz and tar.bz2 (and possibly tar.Z) could probably make 99.9% of
> everyone happy, and stuff like tar.zip, tar.arj, tar.lha etc could be
> added if anyone really wanted it.
>
> Chris Pimlott (IANADD)
You would need a switch case statement that tests for all possible
formats that might be allowed.
Having an uncompress.sh the procedure will be identical for all
compressors, just pipe it through it.
Its far easier to replace the gzip call with an uncompress.sh call
than to program a switch case into all scripts.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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