On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, John Baldwin wrote:
So are we creating packages for ports that are compressed with gzip but
using bzip names? Otherwise, gunzip should probably fail on a '.tbz'
because it isn't a gzipped file (unless gunzip auto-invokes bunzip2 or
some such feature that I'm not aware of).
gunzip is smarter than you think. :-)
Hmm. I guess I would consider it a user error to use gunzip on a bzip'd
file (round peg, square hole sort of deal). However, that has more to do
with the functionality (which I find surprising and perhaps a bit
non-UNIX-ish) rather than this specific patch.
Yeah -- this change was really just about teaching gunzip that unzipping a
.tbz or .tbz2 file is like unzipping a .tgz or .tgz2 file as was the case for
.tgz: rename it to .tar when it's unzipped. The functionality to unzip bz2
files was already present, you just end up with a different file extension
when done. I can see arguments for and against that, but nothing to do with
the patch I committed. :-)
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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