On 3/11/2014 13:16, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 11 March 2014 07:05, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> To be able to migrate most of the zip files to use bsdtar when they case we >> have >> added USES=zip[:infozip] for consistency I do plan to make the same kind of >> USES >> for every kind of archivers. I am puzzled on how to handle all the tar >> extensions what would your propose? >> >> One USES per extension? (USES=xz, USES=bzip2 etc?) >> >> or One USES=tar with arguments for extensions? > > Why does tar need an extension? why can't tar use the DISTFILE > itself? tar supports auto-detection of the format which it is > unzipping.
For the automatic DISTFILES definition I assume. It does seem messy just to automatically determine DISTFILE file name though. John _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
