The formats that use `tar --use-compress-program` are broken on Snow Leopard, because bsdtar is...
tar: Error opening archive: (Empty error message) Using gnutar instead would work, but not all invocations match requirements (e.g. ./+CONTENTS) gnutar: +CONTENTS: Not found in archive So basically .tgz and .tbz are the only tarballs* working, and .tlz and .txz are currently broken. It does work to *create* them, since that uses a pipe instead. Which also hints on how to fix it. One also needs to use either the -d (decompress) flag, or the "unlzma" and "unxz" linked variants (compare "gunzip" and "bunzip2" for the others) for it to work with bsdtar, or in a command pipe. Using a compression library is faster than having to fork a separate decompressor, so its preferred. Newer versions of libarchive/bsdtar does support LZMA/XZ by library, but are disabled on Lion... --anders * OK, using .tar (or .xar) should also work still but might as well keep with .tbz2 (default) then _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev