Eric Siegerman wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 07:46:18AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
> > [...] you still
> > need to have both [suffix and compressor-program name] be
> > specifiable so you are not boxed into
> > cutting a new release in order to support a combination
> > you didn't plan for.
> > >
> > > for f in $DIST_FORMATS; do
> > > eval suffix=\$${f}_SUFFIX
> + eval program=\$${f}_COMPRESSOR
> The example assumes that the compressor program is the same as
> the case regexp. For full generality, the latter should be a
> generic name for the compression format
Yep. Actually, the loop should simplify:
> > > for f in $DIST_FORMATS; do
> > > eval suffix=\$${f}_SUFFIX
> > > [ -n "${suffix}" ] && suffix=.${suffix}
> + eval program=\$${f}_COMPRESSOR
> > > tar cf - ${distdir} | ${program} > ${distdir}.tar${suffix}
> > > done
unless someone actually does an "rpm" or "pkgadd" format :-)
