On 12/11/20 2:25 PM, meganomic via arch-projects wrote:
Adds handling of the compression and temporary storage into namcap.py so it can be removed from the bash script. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59844 mentions "use setuptools entry points." instead of the bash script but I don't know how to do that. I just removed it from the bash script for now.
The subprocess to decompression tools is still (with your patch) just as annoying to me as the existence of the bash script. Python's builtin tarfile.open can handle gz, bz2, or xz. Using the python-xtarfile module you can use xtarfile.open to also handle zst. We should prefer the native code instead of basically inlining bash into python.
True, in order to support lzo, lrz, lz4, lz, we might still need to do subprocess out and create a temporary file with the decompressed package, but this should really be a last resort (and users in practice should rarely hit this code).
What do you think about trying xtarfile first? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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