Re: Suggestion to and how to alow different compression for .debs
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:23:24PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Chris Pimlott <pimlottc@null.net> writes:
>
> 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.
Uhh, so how would moving all of this external to dpkg-source make it any
easier to program? All of the knowledge still has to be there.
Ben
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