On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 07:26:33PM +0100, Daniel Exner <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm dealing with a package which source got misnamed to tar.bz2, > although being a tar archive (without compression). > What I found is, both Fextract methods, the one in utils.sh and the one > in makepkg use the file name for file identification. > > Is there some underlying deeper cause for not using the file command for > this? > If not, I would invest some time and send a patch. :)
I think the only reason is that file -i can be broken easily (just screw
up the /etc/misc/magic.mgc file) and then you can't build any packages
anymore, sounds a bit dangerous.
A possible workaround is to use options=('noextract') then extract
yourself with the right tool. (And contact upstream, hopefully they'll
correct it in the next version.)
But maybe it's only me being paranoid. :)
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