On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pie...@archlinux.de> wrote: > Am Montag, 22. Februar 2010 05:24:50 schrieb Dan McGee: >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmanisc...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> > Another thing: it was mentionned on the IRC channel that namcap >> > doesn't work with the new xz packages. It would be nice to have xz >> > support in namcap before we start pushing these changes out. >> >> Yeah, this is IMHO a blocker to going gung-ho on this. It is not going >> to be super-easy either as we use python's built-in archive support >> that doesn't know about XZ as far as I know... > > Why not? Just call bsdtar to extract the tar somewhere. This way you don#t > have to worry how the package is compressed.
Maybe you can get away with this in a shell script, but no one is happy with this BS in a python program. Or at least I wouldn't be, but feel free to send a patch to the namcap maintainer since it is so easy. I'll be impressed when you fix every check that uses tar.getmembers() too... -Dan