Jesse Alama wrote: > Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:24:28AM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote: >> >>> Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> >>>> Am 05.03.2007 um 02:41 schrieb Jesse Alama: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Currently fink doesn't recognize tbz files. From what I can tell, the >>>>> only change to get Fink to recognize this is in PkgVersion.pm; the >>>>> diff is: >>>>> >>>> Interesting. I never saw a .tbz file, ever -- any examples for those? >>>> >>> The Carbon Emacs source >>> >>> http://svn.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/zenitani/CarbonEmacs/GPL/?rev=36&root=macwiki#dirlist >>> >>> contains a tbz in it. (I'm working on making a new emacs22-carbon >>> package for fink and I'm using Carbon Emacs as a model.) I think that >>> it's the first example of a .tbz file I've seen. >>> >> It's the first I've ever heard of it. >> >> Fink doesn't need a magic handler for every possible extension. Things >> it doesn't recognize get copied "raw" to the build dir, so one can use >> a PatchScript or CompileScript to extract it. >> > > I agree that Fink doesn't need to provide a handler for each possible > extension (though that would be nice). But given the prevalence of > bzip2, it makes sense to me to provide a handler for .tar.bz2 as well > as tbz files, despite the latter's rarity. And adding a handler for > tbz's would nicely parallel our handling of tgz's. The idea of > decompressing the tbz in CompileScript strikes me as inelegant. > > Jesse > > Fink does do ".tar.bz2" by that name (since it's not uncommon). It just doesn't do ".tbz".
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