Re: lzma tarball support

2008-08-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
Randall Wood wrote: > For now you may want it to build_depend on bin:lzma:lzmautils so that > we are not (re)installing it if the user already has it, but it would > be best if we just made macports intelligent about any fetch commands > it needs. No worries, we just add it to the depends_extract

Re: lzma tarball support

2008-08-04 Thread Joshua Root
Anders F Björklund wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >>> To install the "lzma" program, see port lzmautils. >> So, should the port build-depend on lzmautils? > > Probably not, lzma(1) could come from anywhere ? > > The .tar.bz2 doesn't really depend on bzip2 either, > for instance. And neither d

Re: lzma tarball support

2008-08-04 Thread Randall Wood
For now you may want it to build_depend on bin:lzma:lzmautils so that we are not (re)installing it if the user already has it, but it would be best if we just made macports intelligent about any fetch commands it needs. On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > O

Re: lzma tarball support

2008-08-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> To install the "lzma" program, see port lzmautils. > > So, should the port build-depend on lzmautils? Probably not, lzma(1) could come from anywhere ? The .tar.bz2 doesn't really depend on bzip2 either, for instance. And neither does .zip on any unzip. So I guess they a

Re: lzma tarball support

2008-08-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-08-04 11:26:12 +0200, Anders F Björklund wrote: > Added as http://trac.macports.org/changeset/38960 > > To install the "lzma" program, see port lzmautils. So, should the port build-depend on lzmautils? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible

Re: lzma tarball support

2008-08-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
Joshua Root wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Some packages are now distributed with lzma compression instead of >> bzip2, >> e.g. texinfo 4.12: >> >> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/ >> >> Going back to gzip would be a regression, in particular there is a >> big >> size difference

Re: lzma tarball support

2008-08-04 Thread Joshua Root
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Hi, > > Some packages are now distributed with lzma compression instead of bzip2, > e.g. texinfo 4.12: > > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/ > > Going back to gzip would be a regression, in particular there is a big > size difference (here 2.4 MB for gzip, 1.3 MB for lzm

lzma tarball support

2008-08-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, Some packages are now distributed with lzma compression instead of bzip2, e.g. texinfo 4.12: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/ Going back to gzip would be a regression, in particular there is a big size difference (here 2.4 MB for gzip, 1.3 MB for lzma). What changes does a Portfile need to